Ben Gordon's playoff performance helped him secure a lucrative free agent deal from the Detroit Pistons.

"He was a guy we always had our eyes on, so that never changed," said Joe Dumars.  "Watching him perform in the playoffs only solidified what we felt all along. In terms of ending up somewhere else, what didn?t change was the amount of teams that had cap space. That never changed. We felt like if he was going to make a decision to leave Chicago that we were positioned to be the team. That?s with all due respect to the other teams that had money. We just felt like we were the team that had a better shot at him.