The NBA postseason is the last great negotiating tool for upcoming free agents.
There is no better stage to showcase one's ability. For as much as fans and analysts focus on the legacy implications of this time of year, there's also a boatload of cash to be won or lost.
The audience is bigger. The stakes are higher. The performances are fresher in the minds of the executives who will soon make multiyear, multimillion-dollar commitments to these players.
In other words, the timing of the guys on this list is impeccable. Thanks in no small part to their playoff efforts, their bank accounts are set to explode in a matter of months.
For some, this is their first chance to cash in on something far greater than their rookie-scale deals. For others, their next venture into free agency promises to be more lucrative than their last.
The top five playoff wage-earners have been compiled here and then ranked on two key components: the quality of their postseason work and the size of their impending raises.
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