2017-18 Detroit Pistons Luxury Tax/Cap

[Kilo]

Since we still have Bullock's full Bird Rights - sign him to a one-year 4.9M deal. He becomes a trade asset come December and much like we could trade Mook for a 9M salary since players making under 5M can be traded for 175% under new CBA, we could dump him off on a team looking to get under tax during the season. Or sign him for a 2 yr 9.8M deal with second year team option or has a $500K buy out by July 15th 2018 or something on the second year. So we can trade him in the off-season for a player making 9M to a team looking to shed salary who would then buyout Bullock and effectively create 8.5M is cap space for themselves.

Basically just sign Bullock into a ready made trade asset.

[Liqourish]

Pacers apparently have $19 mil in space...guessing the reporter actually means room under the tax line and not actually cap room though.

Any free agency news on Shabazz? Wolves made him unrestricted last I heard

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Nope, it's caproom. Indy was preparing to add pieces around PG, when he told them he had no plans to stay and they traded him, it left them barren.

[coordinator0]

Interesting they're so far still keeping Bullock's cap hold given the didn't give him a $3.3M QO to keep him a RFA. I wondered if we waived our Bird Rights to him if we didn't offer a QO, but I guess not. Still wouldn't like him as a SF here though and that's what we most need given our current roster make-up.

A one year deal for $4M for Bullock wouldn't be the worst thing as it would in the very least give us something to trade come December. We could then use the BAE on our 4th point guard.

I don't think Bullock's rights will be renounced at this point because there's no need to. The Pistons are almost $7.5 million under the hard cap with cap holds included and they're not going to spend that much more in free agency. Or, more accurately they can't with only the BAE and minimum contracts left to be used.

I'm not sure if it's been said yet but for those who are interested the bi-annual exception can be a maximum of $3.29 million this season. So if Detroit makes a signing for that number (or two years for $6,744,500... I think) that's the full amount of that particular exception. It can be split, but at that point I'm not sure how much more a player would be getting over their minimum. Depends on years of service I guess, but it's still not going to be a huge difference.