Right. As I mentioned, IF Evans actually does something to help the team, it'll be in the form of like a contract restructure, not necessarily a paycut. He's got a $16.6M cap hit with a $12.25M salary, which isn't guaranteed. He could convert something like $9M of his salary into a bonus, get paid the same $12.25M this year that he was already due to make, and reduce his current year cap number by $6M.
To the public it looks like a "paycut" because his current year salary cap number is lower. But in reality, he just pushed some of it into future years, while making the same amount of money. That's typically what these high-end players do to "help the team".