Overpaying the wrong players can lead to financial disaster in the NBA, something Detroit Pistons team president Trajan Langdon has demonstrated he understands with recent comments.
This is why he’s being cautious with extensions for Jaden Ivey and Jalen Duren and said, according to Keith Langlois of Pistons.com, that they wouldn’t be getting new deals unless the money matched their contributions on the court.
It’s something we’ve talked a lot about since the application of the new tax rules made it punitive for teams to get into the luxury tax, especially if they are not even competing for a title.