The new CBA makes it especially punitive to overpay the wrong player, so you can’t pay a 6th man like a starter, which is what the Raptors may be doing with Immanuel Quickley and what the Detroit Pistons need to avoid with Jaden Ivey.
Ivey is eligible for an extension but it doesn’t look like one is coming, as the Pistons don’t want to do what the Raptors did, which is commit big long-term money to a guy who has yet to prove himself as an NBA starter.
Quickley is a good player, but arguably had his best season as a bench player for the Knicks, which could be his ultimate role.