After months of thumb-twiddling, pretending Olympics basketball is compelling and general soul-splitting tedium, NBA training camps are finally here.
This is not a drill.
Before you lose yourself in death-to-the-offseason revelry, we must tend to the depth charts. They are wacky and indefinite this time of year but worth our attention.
Sorting players on guaranteed contracts will be the priority. In exceptional cases (what up, Boston?), a guaranteed deal can be displaced for a make-good pact. Anytime a player of note, non-guaranteed or otherwise, doesn't make the 15-man projection, we'll call out his absence. We'll denote non-guaranteed deals expected to make the roster with an asterisk.
All 15 slots will be filled in for most squads, but not all of them. Positional designations, while increasingly opaque, will not be forced for the sake of aesthetics. If a team has eight jillion centers, its depth chart will reflect as much.
Injuries will not impact a player's inclusion or standing—we're interested in what these pecking orders look like at full strength. Next-man-up analysis, glaring holes, important additions ...
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Projecting Every NBA Team’s Depth Chart, 2016 Training Camp Edition
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