NBA Free Agency 2017 Player Profile: Justin Holiday

Salary

If teams interested in Justin Holiday see him as a role player and nothing more, he probably won’t see many huge offers. The 6’6″ shooting guard is a capable three-and-d player, but after a bevy of awful contracts were handed to three-and-D guys last NBA free agency period teams are running out of cash.

There just isn’t a lot of cap space to go around in the NBA right now. Once a few max contracts get signed this summer, there won’t be many teams with more than exceptions, a few million in cap space and the ability to sign players to veteran minimum deals (which are also exceptions, by the way.)

There are two ways Holiday could end up getting more than an affordable NBA contract this summer. The first is a team believing he’s a starter-caliber player who hasn’t gotten the chance to demonstrate that just yet. The second is a team low on shooters jumping at the chance to add somebody, anybody, who can sink a three.

Either scenario could absolutely happen. Holiday likely isn’t going to make eight figures per season like Solomon Hill and Allen Crabbe, but anything can happen on the open market. After all, Matthew Dellavedova is getting over $9 million from the Bucks for the next three years, and so is Mirza Teletovic.