If they bring back a couple of their key free agents and don't make a trade, the Oklahoma City Thunder will likely enter the 2017-18 NBA regular season with a payroll that exceeds the projected $101 million luxury-tax line. With that in mind, Thunder general manager Sam Presti has another option to get below the tax threshold by waiving a player via the NBA's "stretch" provision, and that player might be forward Kyle Singler.
Brett Dawson of The Oklahoman and Fred Katz of The Norman Transcript have written reviews on Singler's 2016-17 season, and both bring up the possibility that Singler could be waived, if he's not traded, as a way to deal with the luxury-tax situation.