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Season snapshot
Elite regular-season results · competitive results younger coreDET finished 60-22 (0.732) with 14 playoff game(s). Its governed core had 11 players and a rotation-weighted age of 26.5. The team had 0 critical/structural basketball problem(s), 0 future pick-control row(s), and 27.3% future core salary schedule coverage. This describes the planning position; it does not recommend a direction.
Record
60-22
Playoff games
14
Playoff wins
7
Core age
26.5
Primary creator
Cade Cunningham
Current decision lanes
Transactions, injuries, rumors and staff changes are separate evidence lanes — never merged.13transactions0injuries0rumors0staff changes
TransactionElijah Harklesstwo way signingJul 8, 2026Completed
Signed from Utah to a two-way slot. Reconciled from a dated index row carrying a cited transaction source. | Exact event and roster-action lineage promoted by nba_live_gap_closure_program_v1_20260825.
TransactionUgonna Onyensotwo way signingJul 2, 2026Completed
Draft-rights player signed to a two-way slot. Reconciled from a dated index row carrying a cited transaction source. | Exact event and roster-action lineage promoted by nba_live_gap_closure_program_v1_20260825.
Transaction
Injuries & availability
Governed medical episodes — evidence about players, separate from team decisions.| Player | Injury | Body part | Out | Returned | Severity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ronald Holland II | left knee soreness | knee | Dec 21, 2025 → Dec 22, 2025 | not recorded | — |
| Duncan Robinson | left knee contusion | knee | Dec 19, 2025 → Dec 20, 2025 | Dec 20, 2025 | — |
| Caris LeVert | right knee soreness | knee | Dec 19, 2025 → Dec 20, 2025 |
Last observed season rotation
Players with actual NBA minutes for the latest eligible season; not a complete current registration ledger.| Player | Role | Strongest functions | Minutes | On/Off | Stab. RAPM | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Cade Cunningham | — | — | 2,691 | — | — | metrics unavailable |
 Duncan Robinson | — | — | 2,453 | — | — |
On/Off and stabilized RAPM are separate impact lanes on a per-100 scale — never combined into one grade. A dash means evidence is unavailable, not zero.
20 of 20 — complete
Basketball functions
Eleven separate function readings — need, coverage and redundancy stay apart; no team score.CreationMonitor Not Priority
Middle Tier Distributed · led by Cade Cunningham, then Daniss Jenkins
Full reading
DET 2025-26 Creation: production percentile 50.0; largest contributor Cade Cunningham (38.4% of above-replacement production); monitor_not_priority.
Defensive event creationNo immediate need
Functional Strength · led by Ausar Thompson, then Cade Cunningham
Full reading
DET 2025-26 Defensive event creation: production percentile 100.0; largest contributor Ausar Thompson (21.7% of above-replacement production); no_immediate_function_need.
Shot creation
Team performance and shot-creation architecture.DET ranked 20 of 30 in self-created shot share (46.1%), 18 of 30 in self-created eFG, and 11 of 30 in assisted eFG. Primary creator: Cade Cunningham. Team-level creator attribution: 95.3%. Creation profile: balanced creation mix; dependency: distributed creation; shotmaking: mixed shotmaking.
Self-created FGA share
46.1%
Self-created eFG
48.8%
Assisted eFG
59.6%
Cade Cunningham share
27.5%
Contracts & cap
Selected player charges under the serving definition — not full cap legality.SupportedOver Cap Below Tax Threshold With Exception Ledger Withheld
Selected player charges
$186.6M
Share of cap
121%
Tax line
$1.33M under
First apron
$9.38M under
Second apron
$21.3M under
DET 2025-26 carried $186,560,041 of selected player charges (120.6% of the cap), placing it in over cap below tax on selected player charges. Its highest contracted function cost was interior_finish at 16.9% of the cap; highest measured need was shooting. Exact exception and transaction legality is withheld without team cap-hold and exception-use ledgers.
Future core salary schedule
Upcoming decisions
Governed contract events ahead — dates carry their honest quality.Caris LeVertcontract control horizonJun 30, 2027
Caris LeVert has a reported contract-control horizon through the 2027 season. The June 30 date is a season-boundary planning proxy, not proof of exact free-agency status. The player is inside the two-season extension-review horizon, but exact eligibility and value are not certified.
Daniss Jenkinscontract control horizonJun 30, 2027
Daniss Jenkins has a reported contract-control horizon through the 2027 season. The June 30 date is a season-boundary planning proxy, not proof of exact free-agency status. The player is inside the two-season extension-review horizon, but exact eligibility and value are not certified.
Ausar Thompsoncontract control horizonJun 30, 2027
Ausar Thompson has a reported contract-control horizon through the 2027 season. The June 30 date is a season-boundary planning proxy, not proof of exact free-agency status. The player is inside the two-season extension-review horizon, but exact eligibility and value are not certified.
Isaiah Stewartcontract control horizonJun 30, 2028
Isaiah Stewart has a reported contract-control horizon through the 2028 season. The June 30 date is a season-boundary planning proxy, not proof of exact free-agency status. The player is inside the two-season extension-review horizon, but exact eligibility and value are not certified.
Future assets
Draft-control coverage: abstain no future pick control rows. Partial coverage renders as partial — never as a zero-asset team.No accepted future asset-control rows are governed for this team yet. Asset-control coverage is known to be partial league-wide — this is missing evidence, not an empty cupboard.
Organization
Basketball authority and staff context — descriptive, never a grade.No governed authority-regime rows are knowable for this team at this as-of moment.
CoverageResolved
withheld: falseresolved team: true
Supporting relations (7)
- gb_state.frontend_team_season_overview_v
- gb_state.team_functional_coverage_v
- gb_state.frontend_team_roster_card_v
- gb_state.team_asset_control_timeline_v
- gb_state.team_roster_decision_calendar_event_v
- gb_organization.role_tenure_assertion
- gb_state.nba_team_decision_feed_at
