Samuel Dalembert's free-agent stock value went up significantly during this season's playoffs.

"My main thing was just the whole experience of it and be able to be in a playoff game and know that, hey, I can play without getting fouled," Dalembert said. "They don?t call little fouls and you?re learning and everybody plays their best so now you can really find out who?s the best. That?s the thrill of it."

For Dalembert, who is a restricted free agent July 1, such strides couldn?t come at a better time.

While Sixers? president Billy King has insisted all season that he will match any offer Dalembert receives, he?s got to know by now that Dalembert?s postseason success can only be raising the price he?ll have to pay to keep his young center.