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Harrison Barnes would be nice to have on the Sixers, but ...

If the world of basketball was sane, then Harrison Barnes would be entering his third NBA season, not his fifth. He would have remained at North Carolina, where he would have played for at least one national championship and would have been a national player-of-the-year candidate twice. He was that good.

For four years, Barnes has laid back and fit in.

That's an awful lot of money for a guy who averaged only 10.8 points and 5.3 rebounds the past two seasons, but he became a much more efficient scorer, shooting 47.4 percent from the floor and hitting 39.4 percent of his threes, improvements of six and four percent. Of course, the Warriors were a scoring juggernaut, and shots came more easily thanks to Curry and Thompson and the Warriors' selfless style, but Barnes cannot help that he played on a good team.

He managed double digits in 42 of his 66 games this season, somewhat remarkable considering Curry and Thompson both ranked in the top 14 shot-takers. Really, though, any remarkable value Barnes has lies more in his future potential than in his past performance.

We know, too, that he will be an Olympian … by default, of course, since an entire Dream Team has refused to stare down the Zika virus.

Krzyzewski used to work for Sixers president Jerry Colangelo when Colangelo ran USA Basketball. Bryan Colangelo, Jerry's son, is the Sixers' general manager.

Maybe Coach K and the Colangelos see something they like.