5:07pm: The Pistons have officially waived Joseph and Sirvydis, the team confirmed in a press release. Detroit also announced that Cook has been waived. As noted below, his salary for 2021/22 had been fully non-guaranteed.
3:36pm: The Pistons are waiving a pair of players from their roster, according to Shams Charania and James Edwards III of The Athletic, who report (via Twitter) that Cory Joseph and Deividas Sirvydis will be released.
Joseph’s $12.6MM salary for the 2021/22 season was only partially guaranteed for $2.4MM. Sirvydis had a fully guaranteed salary for the coming season, but his cap hit was just $1.52MM and his 2022/23 salary was non-guaranteed.
Detroit will have the option of either applying the dead money for Joseph and Sirvydis solely to the team’s 2021/22 cap or stretching those cap charges across multiple seasons to generate more space this offseason. That possibility shouldn’t be ruled out, since the Pistons’ trade of Mason Plumlee suggested the club is looking to open up cap room for free agency.
John Hollinger of The Athletic (Twitter link) estimates that Detroit could get up to about $22MM in cap space by stretching Joseph and Sirvydis and cutting Rodney McGruder and Tyler Cook, who have non-guaranteed contracts.
Joseph, who will turn 30 in August, began last season with Sacramento and was sent to Detroit at the March trade deadline. He played well with the Pistons down the stretch, averaging 12.0 PPG, 5.5 APG, and 3.2 RPG on .506/.368/.878 shooting in 19 games (26.4 MPG). Joseph should be an appealing target for teams in the market for a backup point guard.
A Lithuanian wing, Sirvydis was the No. 37 pick in the 2019 draft and was stashed for a year overseas before signing his first NBA contract in the 2020 offseason. His rookie season was uninspiring, as he played limited minutes in 20 games, averaging 2.1 PPG and 1.5 RPG in 6.7 MPG. A return to Europe seems like a possibility for Sirvydis.
Spurs Reunion for CoJo? Or maybe the Lakers??
SASpurs …
Kltuch client Corey Joseph
Pistons obviously opening up cap space wonder who they are going to try go after.
Maybe they will throw a max offer at John Collins, in which Atlanta would have to think long and hard about matching. If not him I think they should make a play for Josh Hart
Don’t have enough to max Collins and I don’t think he’d want to go there anyway, since he plays the same position as Grant.
They could open up enough from Collins if they wanted to, cause they don’t have any big contracts on the books.
They literally have Grant collecting 20 mil and Cade on 10 mil after that it’s Hayes on 5.5 and Doumbouya on 3.5.
Whereas look at say Philly, they have 3 guys collecting over 30 mil, plus Hill on 10 and Curry on 8….
Plus if Collins got offered the max he would definitely take it. You said he wouldn’t cause Grant plays at the 4, but Grant has in the past played the 3, and Collins has played the 5 so I’m sure they could make it work. Atlanta makes it work with Gallo, Hunter, Collins all at PF and Capela and now Thompson at the 5
you forgot about all the dead money they have. aka Blake Griffin’s max
True that 29mil on Blake for next season. Surely they could stretch that for 10 mil over 3 years if they wanted to open up 20 mil
The Pistons have about 37 mm of dead money on their cap next year and it can NOT be stretched at this point. Even with that there may be a path (not there yet) to the baby max starting amount of 28 mm.
I didn’t do the math, but Weaver apparently is doing some. He’s made too many moves to open up small amounts of space to believe he’s just cleaning up the balance sheet.
They’re at like 95M right now with all these moves. So 17M before they get into the MLE stuff. They do have 2 trade exceptions worth 10M
What FA are they targeting for 17M that’s going to truly be a game changer? Any truly good RFA would get matched at that. The better names like Kawhi/CP3/Lowry/DeMar etc.. aren’t going there.
I think they are simply cutting costs and will go with what they have tbh. It’s more of a – we stink, why would we approach the salary max?
22-23 they can make noise in FA and RFA. Only 70M would be committed if you account for Cade and another top draft pick.
And if Sekou doesn’t show anything, he’s not getting picked up for a 4th yr. Deividas is a nothing and could be waived. And I’d trade Hayes.
Depending on where they end up in the draft would dictate it but they are Top-5 you’re thinking Banchero (PF), Ivey (SG), Hardy (SG). And you’ve got young enough FAs like LaVine, Beal, JJJ, Randle, A. Gordon.
Stewart
Target a PF
Grant / Bey
Target a SG
CC
@phillyballers – When a team (no where near the tax line, and in fact below the salary minimum) trades draft capital to rid themselves of a modest (not bad) contract like Plumlee, it’s not to save the owner a few bucks, it’s to either free up cap space or create a short path to creating it. If the owner wants a few bucks, sell a 2nd and he gets real cash in hand – not a hypothetical reduction in future payroll that will need to be added back anyway due to minimum payroll rules.
This team has a lot of underrated players and is a few veteran role players away from looking similar to last years Hawks
Weaver made the trade of Plumlee on draft night with something in mind and specific player. He has not shown his cards yet so it is either a FA player or a trade he would like to make. Stay tuned……#dreamweaver
Here we go, here’s a guy that would be a perfect backup Point Guard. Veteran 5-1 assist-to-turnover ratio 35% on the three. Had a nice year in Detroit last year 12 points a game. Perfect for the Warriors, 6-5 can get it done as a backup guard. Lakers I’m sure we’ll be looking as well. As with many guys will be all depending upon how much money he wants.
Gary,
ESPN Bobby Marks believes that Kuminga will the best player on this draft.
Bobby Marks have worked for nba and ESPN 20 years.
IMO, Kuminga has had the best nba body type since MJ.
A lot of people have worked for ESPN over the last 20 years and a large percentage of them are no more qualified than most of the posters here. Warriors fans want to believe what Bobby Marks said.
Make enough outrageous predictions in 20 years, some will be right.
Literally the comment above you has nothing to do with Kuminga
jivot, Sillivan knows I’m a Warriors fan and he’s just giving me some info he found. Harmless and I appreciate it. I brought up the Warriors and so he followed suit. It’s fine and I enjoy the Scoops sillivan presents here. When I don’t like them or they make no sense I let him know that too LOL.
Came to post – I see you, Gary! CoJo is EXACTLY the type GSW needs, even has a ring from 2014, so he’s been there before. We need guys who have been there before. It’s strange I even have to say it, but apparently Lacob doesn’t understand basic NBA concepts.
Also funny how Mulder is a dollar store CoJo – time to upgrade to the brand name, Joe.
Who cares about crap moves. Pistons are playing for 2023 title or their kissing themselves.
Government can’t bail THAT out…smdd
Add 2 really good PGs to last year’s team (cade & killian) and its actually a solid group
They should do GS a favor and trade for Draymond .. I feel he would be a good fit in Motor City
Joseph would be an intriguing pickup for the Bulls. Smart player, good ballhandler, would love to see him playing fourth quarters with the ball in his hands and Lavine to his left.
Joseph would be an intriguing pickup for the Bulls. Good ballhandler, compares favorably to Satoransky and would be great at hanging on to the ball late in games.