The Detroit Pistons spent a fortune last summer. After signing Andre Drummond to an extension, adding free agents Ish Smith, Jon Leuer and Boban Marjanovic, the Pistons had handed out almost $200 million worth of salary committed over the next five years. That amount took them well over the 2016-17 salary cap of $94 million, and the 2017-18 projected cap dropped from somewhere in the neighborhood of $108 million to a significantly lower $101 million.
The Pistons will enter the 2017-18 offseason with $109 million on the books for the coming season, $8 million over the cap and just $12 million shy of the luxury tax threshold.