A good season in the NBA doesn’t just happen on the field. This also happens on the financial side! Bank management is fundamental for any NBA team, so it’s time to look at Detroit Pistons salaries for the 2022-23 season.
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Detroit Pistons 2022-23 salaries
Financial situation in relation to the salary cap
- The Luxury Tax threshold is set at $150,267,000 this year.
- The NBA Salary Cap is set at $123,655,000 this year.
With $118,152,609 contractually committed for this 2022-23 seasonthe Pistons are quietou-bilou in their finances.
No big names on board, only All-Stars in the making: the Pistons’ situation is logically permanent. Our speech will probably not be the same in the summer of 2025 when the Isaiah Stewart and Saddiq Bey files will require a dip in the portfolio, a year before the end of Cade Cunningham’s contract. What about Killian Hayes? Will they also have to anticipate the extension of a Jaden Ivey STRA-TOS-PHE-RI-QUE on the floor? The approaching end of contract for Kelly Olynyk, Detroit’s highest paid player, should help ease the franchise’s account, so that one day all these talents – then in the prime of life – can live together and not lack nothing.
Players under guaranteed contracts for the 2023-24 season: 3
- Marvin Bagley III
- Jaden Ivey
- Jalen Duren
Two rookies and the Bagley project. Following the impact of the 2nd choice of the 2018 Draft since his arrival in Michigan, personally, we firmly believe in it.
Three players to watch this season:
The day after the defeat of the Blues in the EuroBasket final – a tournament in which he did not participate – Killian Hayes would be well inspired to step-up. Why ? We are talking about Victor Wembanyama and the possibility of Joel Embiid, but it is indeed the French back lines that have taken on water. In his register of a very flashy grand dadet who can lock down any attacking profile, Killian has a pretty crazy room for improvement. Margin of progress that he will have to scrape by next summer: in a year, the Pistons will choose whether they wish to activate the team option of Kiki for $7.4 million. For the moment, it is not really won.
For Stewart, it is not a question of knowing whether it will be kept or not – the interior “having” like Killian of a team option for the 2023-24 season – but to know the terms of its extension. He has shown that he can average a season with 8 points and 9 rebounds, and will have to turn a new course in the 2022-23 financial year to hope, in the summer of 2025 or before, to get back in for a very tidy sum. It has the potential, provided it erases certain flaws too obvious like this passion for the UFC. Needless to say that in Detroit, since Friday, November 19, 2004, we are quite attentive to this kind of detail.
What next for Hamidou Diallo? We could have talked about Nerlens Noel or Alec Burks, but their “mercenary” side complicates the projection. For Hamidou, it is a question of knowing what the guy will do in a year, when his contract expires. Will he have managed to scratch a place off the bench behind Cade Cunningham and Jaden Ivey? His messy basketball side and “I jump very high for not much” does not make him an interesting rotation player. Good veterans will surely be preferred to him to surround the young people. In the meantime, he has a season to prove himself and deserve an extension, in Detroit or elsewhere.
