Salary
After being waived by the Sacramento Kings right before his full salary guaranteed a month out from last year’s free agency, Tolliver landed in Detroit last summer on a one-year deal worth $3.2 million.
With that in mind, there’s no question Tolliver outplayed the value of that contract both on and off the court in what was a rather chaotic season in the Motor City, at least from the outside looking in.
That’s obviously continued into the offseason with all the shakeup that has gone on throughout the coaching staff and within the front office, some of which hasn’t fully resolved even after the Pistons appointed Dwane Casey as their new head coach earlier this month.
At the end of their season in mid-April, Tolliver expressed a desire to return back to Detroit for a possible fourth season with the Pistons, but his full answer to Ansar Khan of MLive.com foretold the significant change that has defined their offseason to this point:
"“This is where I call home. I’ve been here longer than anywhere else in my career and would love to keep that going,” Tolliver said near the end of the season. “But at the end of the day, got to see what’s up this summer. You never know what teams are going to do, what organizations are going to do. So much unpredictable stuff that between now and then you never know. My heart is definitely here in Detroit.”"
For all those reasons as well as the Pistons’ congested salary cap situation, it seems more likely that Tolliver lands elsewhere at this stage in the game. That obviously leads me to…