DeMar DeRozan of the Toronto Raptors is doing this whole "year after a contract year" thing all wrong.
Normally, when a player is going into unrestricted free agency, he plays extra hard going into the summer, then slacks off once the ink has dried on his new, lucrative deal. At least that's often the public's perception of what happens.
DeRozan has gone exactly the other way, however. After a career year in which he was named to his second All-Star team, DeMar has seemingly found a way to work even harder and perform even better after signing the biggest deal of his NBA career.