The Detroit News. You can criticize Pistons management for many things. You can question their drafts. You can question some of their recent trades and free-agent moves. The Pistons have one bad, immovable contract and that belongs to Loy Vaught.
Every team has bad contracts.
Most have several. The NBA keeps track of these things, believe it or not. It puts out an efficiency index, rating teams based on their payrolls and number of victories. You say that only proves the Pistons are cheap, tight-fisted. They have had the summer of 2000 circled on their calendars for a long time.