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Age: 26

Free-Agency Status: Unrestricted

2016-17 Per-Game Stats: 6.8 points, 1.6 rebounds, 1.2 assists, 0.5 steals, 0.1 blocks, 48.7 percent shooting

Ian Clark is a fine addition...if you have four All-NBA talents on the roster who turn him into a sharpshooting afterthought and garbage-time superhero. And even with those safety nets in place, Clark continued his Jekyll and Hyde act, as Bleacher Report's Adam Fromal aptly pointed out:

"Which Ian Clark is for real? The one who thrived at the beginning of the season, averaging 7.6 points per game during his first five appearances while slashing 51.9/41.7/83.3? The one who slumped during the end of the year, slashing 45.0/18.2/87.5 in his final 14 games? The one who's shown the ability to explode off the pine during the playoffs?

Someone is still going to pay Clark a handsome sum that pries him from the Golden State Warriors. There isn't as much money floating around the NBA this summer compared to last July, when he was also a free agent, but he upped his shooting percentages from 2015-16 while seeing more time as one of Stephen Curry's two primary backups.

Next year's mid-level exception is expected to come in around $8.4 million, and "executives believe he could command a deal" worth more than that, according to The Vertical's Shams Charania. Imagine Ian Clark making something like $10 million per year. Anything close to that is far too much.

More than 50 percent of Clark's field-goal attempts this past season came with a defender four or more feet away from him. He won't enjoy that same luxury on another roster and doesn't have the chops to create his own offense while also maintaining his efficiency. He banged in 40 percent of his pull-up jumpers, coughed up possession a little too often out of pick-and-rolls and barely shot 30 percent in a limited number of one-on-one situations.

Asking him to do more, outside the comfy confines of Golden State's offense, is reasonable. But paying him the entire mid-level exception and then some to try expanding his horizons is a reckless errand.