Just like a hot run of form can lead impending free agents in the NBA to more money than they were previously going to be signed for – and you can look at the Denver Nuggets’ Bruce Brown and the Miami Heat’s Gabe Vincent and Max Strus as examples of that this year – the opposite can be true when a soon-to-be free agent performs poorly in the postseason.
That can cost players millions and millions of dollars and years of security on their next contract, because, in teams’ minds, what good is a player if they can’t perform at their best when the stakes are at their highest?
Below, check out the impending NBA free agents we believe hurt their stock the most in the 2023 playoffs.