2016 NBA Free Agents Who Missed the Playoffs, Not the Payday

May 6th, 2016 by Dan Favale Leave a reply »
Watching the playoffs unfold from home or in the stands as an NBA player is the worst. There are no exceptions.

Unless you're about to enter free agency.

Any painful pangs of absent opportunity are easy to stamp out when you're galloping toward an imminent payday—infinitely so when that payoff will come amid an unprecedented salary-cap eruption.

Some prospective free agents would nevertheless prefer to have gained playoff entry, viewing the additional games as an opportunity to drive up their offseason value. But that line of thinking, though admirable, doesn't always work.

Certain players actually end up damaging their own stock during postseason campaigns. Just ask DeMar DeRozan. Or Dwight Howard. Or Marvin Williams. Or—well, you get the point.

Missing the playoffs isn't something to celebrate by any means. But for notable free agents who spent the regular season maximizing their summertime price tag, it's not exactly something to condemn, either.

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