Some changes to the NBA’s collective bargaining agreement and a busy summer for the Toronto Raptors have made it so looking at a team’s roster page isn’t quite as straightforward as it once was. There is endless minutiae surrounding contracts, guarantees, the G-League, and more, so let’s go through how the Raptors’ roster for the 2017-18 season has been constructed so far.
Guaranteed Contracts
Most NBA contracts are guaranteed, or at least mostly guaranteed. These deals don’t assure a player of a roster spot, necessarily, but they do mean that if waived, the player will still receive the agreed upon salary.