5. Harrison Barnes
We all know Barnes’s disappearing act in the NBA Finals was pretty awful.
He shrank in the moment and had three consecutive miserable games to close out the series when the Golden State Warriors needed someone, anyone to step up.
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The flip side of that coin: the Warriors as a whole were thrown into disarray when Draymond Green was suspended and outside of Shaun Livingston, Leandro Barbosa, Andre Iguodala and Green himself, none of their rotation players had particularly great games after Game 4.
He’s only 23, can play both forward positions, can shoot and score and as a higher-usage player, would be a great contributing piece.
And after that Finals performance, his stock is manageable for the Bulls. He would require a bit of an overpay to avoid his rumored landing spot: the Los Angeles Lakers.
I don’t think anyone (outside of, say, Sacramento) is going to offer him the $22.1 million maximum annual salary allocated for players with his experience.
The Bulls could certainly swoop in and try to wrest him away from the Dubs on something in the range of a four-year offer at $18 million per year.
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