The 2015-16 NBA season is a great time to play for a new contract.
Just ask some of the Association's impending free agents.
Actually, ask just about any of the league's soon-to-be free agents. As the NBA prepares for an unprecedented salary-cap spike, it's not just the max-contract locks, such as Andre Drummond and Kevin Durant, who are playing for massive paycheck gains. It's everyone. And a select few are capitalizing on the seemingly unending financial possibilities way more than expected.
We're not talking about fringe earners who are validating even the faintest suspicions. Hassan Whiteside bank-breaking talk was on the table long before 2015-16 tipped off. The same goes for Bradley Beal, DeMar DeRozan and anyone else whose future paydays were even remotely predictable.
The real overachievers are those who aren't supposed to be here, in this conversation, serving as talking points at all. They are surprisingly productive and more valuable to their incumbent teams than initially anticipated.
And they are all gearing up to sign lucrative contracts that, even against an exploding salary cap, were never once conside ...
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2016 NBA Free Agents Playing Way into Unexpectedly Large Paydays
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