Contract Configuration
CBA Art. VIICalculated rookie cap base with 8.0% annual escalations.
Cap Trajectory & Apron Analysis
25% Base Rookie MaxYear-by-Year Salary & Estimated Detroit Pistons Cap Room
Assumes 10% annual league-wide cap inflation| Season | Thompson Salary | Annual Change | Projected NBA Cap | % of Cap | Pistons Team Total | Apron Threshold | Apron Status |
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Designated Rookie Extension Criteria (30% Supermax Tier)
25% Standard MaxUnder the NBA Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), a 1st-round pick can qualify for up to 30% of the salary cap (the "5/30% Derrick Rose Rule") if any of the following are achieved prior to Year 4:
Recent Rookie Scale Extension Benchmarks
NBA 2021-2023 DraftsHow Ausar Thompson's reported terms compare to peer extensions across the league:
| Player | Team | Terms | AAV | Max Tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ausar Thompson | Detroit | 5 yr / $155.0M | $31.0M | 25% Rookie Scale |
| Cade Cunningham | Detroit | 5 yr / $224.2M | $44.8M | 25% Base Max (30% Rose) |
| Scottie Barnes | Toronto | 5 yr / $224.2M | $44.8M | 25% Base Max (30% Rose) |
| Franz Wagner | Orlando | 5 yr / $224.2M | $44.8M | 25% Base Max (30% Rose) |
| Evan Mobley | Cleveland | 5 yr / $224.2M | $44.8M | 25% Base Max (30% Rose) |
| Jalen Green | Houston | 3 yr / $106.0M | $35.3M | 2+1 Short Extension |
Saved salary schedule and averaging arithmetic
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Saved contract total one hundred fifty-five million divided by five years gives thirty-one million average. Bars share zero at four pixels per million dollars. Player, reporting, salary-cap and award claims are source fixtures, not verified contractual facts. Executable exact fixture schedule is twenty-seven point two, twenty-nine point two, thirty point six, thirty-one point two and thirty-six point eight million. These add to one hundred fifty-five. Bars compare first and fifth years at fifteen pixels per million. The saved eight-percent control is not the actual repeated raise formula inside this special calibrated branch; do not present this sequence as uniform compound growth. Subtracting first-year twenty-seven point two from fifth-year thirty-six point eight yields nine point six million increase. Bars show first-year value and increase at fifteen pixels per million. Other settings use a separate general schedule formula; changing award toggles affects source eligibility labels. Those labels do not establish actual legal eligibility. Full raw native export/reset and complete original tool allocation are checked.