3 Scenarios for Bojan Bogdanovic and the Detroit Pistons at the deadline and beyond

The Pistons could buy him out

The least likely scenario is that the Pistons don't trade Bogdanovic at the deadline or fully guarantee his contract for next season.

He can be bought out for around $2 million, which would open up nearly $17 million in additional cap space.

But the Pistons already have plenty of cap space, so it would be of little consequence unless they have players to use it on. There's also the fact that they only have seven players under contract for next season (including Bogdanovic), so will have a lot of roster spots to fill, especially if he is gone with nothing coming back in return.

My gut tells me the Pistons will trade Burks, keep Bogdanovic and hope they can make enough moves to push him to a more suitable role, but I wouldn't be shocked if the insane front office runs it back and we see a 35-year-old Bogey in the starting five next season.