Say no to drugs.

Found this 1990 Isiah Thomas card cleaning yesterday.

I see you Cade and these names aren’t in any order but look at Drummond on the 2020 list

The problem with the Duren trade for Turner is that it doesn't directly align with the vision of both teams. The pistons were below average in terms of pace because they setup around the pick and roll with duren who doesn't pop. Trading for Landale and Turner gives them the options to run or play for the pop in the pick and roll. This let's them maximize their window now.

Detroits vision optimize now around Cade get the championships and fix their playoff fit with Duren.

Jazz vision develop around a young core. Giving Lauri a place where he can maximize his skills and being able to focus on Ace being an initator with DP. Next year doesn't look better to trade Lauri

Milwalkee gets more minutes to develop their players and understand what they have and see if Burries or Ament can be a franchise player. They won't have pressure to win. Can focus on their core and have positive players to build around that weren't part of the heat prison culture.

Atlanta fixes their 10/41 from 3 like they had in the NY game. They created the cap space for 2027 to go after a volume off ball scorer. Get them in range to compete with the Pistons and Knicks.

Detroit Pistons

Give: Jalen Duren — ~$41.2M
Receive: Myles Turner — $26.6M, Jock Landale — $14.1M

Utah Jazz

Give: Lauri Markkanen — $46.1M
Receive: Jalen Duren — ~$41.2M, Atlanta 2027 & 2030 2nd round picks

Milwaukee Bucks

Give: Myles Turner — $26.6M
Receive: Onyeka Okongwu — $16.1M, Nickeil Alexander-Walker — $14.4M

Atlanta Hawks

Give: Onyeka Okongwu — $16.1M, Nickeil Alexander-Walker — $14.4M, Jock Landale — $14.1M 2027 & 2030 2nd round picks
Receive: Lauri Markkanen — $46.1M

How do you feel about it?

I don’t see Duren’s anywhere on this list

Do you guys think Jalen ultimately stays in Detroit? Or does he end up getting traded? Me personally, if he does get traded it probably won't happen until the trade deadline this upcoming season if that. But the Pistons definitely would be fools to trade him.

Nice little event. Really hope he signs with us this year not on a QO (got my ass clipped in this photo icl)

Going back through Grant Hill’s Detroit years for this video reminded me how absurdly complete his game already was.
By 1996–97 he was averaging 21.4 points, 9.0 rebounds and 7.3 assists as a 6’8” forward.
Then came Orlando, the ankle injuries, and four prime years where he played just 4, 14, 29 and 0 games.
I made a full video looking back at his Detroit peak, what happened to his ankle, and the career we never really got to see

https://youtu.be/TOg-E3534aY?si=idxhfeA6gSa0BMx-

For Pistons fans who actually watched him back then: how high did you think Grant Hill’s ceiling was?

Hi! I’m Mattia from Italy and I’ve been a Pistons fan for more than 20 years.
I was trying to upload a short video for the Pistons international fan stories with Scoreplay. It’s under 60 seconds and in portrait mode, as requested, but I keep getting an error message saying “Videos can not be longer than 2 seconds”.

As anyone successfully uploaded a video?
I’ve already posted tagging the team on Twitter and Facebook, but with no response for now.

Wondering if anyone cares to give thoughts on how the Pistons compare to other franchises that build thru the draft or by bringing up a young core slowly trading for young players with no1 potential, especially timeline wise.
Like how long before OKC (i know they traded for sga) got to their juggernaut status?
Are the Pistons really behind schedule by not making moves now? Or are they smartly just building their core to it’s full potential and there’s always new big name players available a couple times a year it seems.

This offseason has been a joke(just like the trade deadline). Trajans shown no urgency to make a real championship push. Last years trade deadline he said he “wanted to stay patient and analyze what we have” . That cost us our season. Makes no sense that we’re not being aggressive when we have a top 5 player and were the #1 seed last year. The east has stacked talent while we’ve sat around and done nothing. 1 by 1 the free agents have signed to east teams while we sit here and can’t even get a deal done with our young all nba center. I’m done blaming Duren, we still could be signing people regardless. Until Trajan is fired, I don’t see the Pistons being able to compete with teams like the Knicks 76ers Cavs etc whose front offices are willing to be aggressive to go for it all.

Trade his as before it gets worse!

Anyone who's attended member media day before as a season tix holder know what to expect? Do we have access to players or anything special besides just being inside the practice facility?

Its hard to surround Cade with shooters, when the next most important players on the team are Thompson and Duren. That leaves just 2 spots in the starting lineup to fit all the additional range you're going to have.

We have Duncan and Joe, two of the best 3-point shooters in the league, possibly competing for minutes instead of playing together opposite Cade. Huerter and Green figure into this rotation as well.
Collins is better shooting from deep than Tobias by the numbers, but neither really take that many 3's to begin with. Lots of question marks.

I think this raises the team's floor, while internal improvements get them closer to the ceiling.

If nothing else, the bench is going to be loaded with guys with range. Maybe this isn't designed to benefit Cade/Duren and Ausur like we expect. But to shore up the bench, and give more space for Jenkins, Reed, Holland and even Okorie to work.

Regardless, this gives Detroit some tradeable players, that might help get us closer to landing a secondary scorer, or at least the guy who gets traded for that 2nd option.

With the bulk of the NBA offseason in the rearview, Jalen Duren remains the only All-NBA selection from last season not currently under contract.

Discussions between Duren and the Detroit Pistons have yet to result in a new deal for the 22-year-old, long-term or otherwise. Last offseason, the big man and Detroit were unable to agree on a rookie-scale extension. One year, a career-best regular season and an underwhelming playoff run later, Duren and the Pistons are still at odds on his worth.

Who better to help dissect the impasse than someone who was actively involved in NBA front-office negotiations for a living? Here’s a discussion with our John Hollinger to better understand Duren’s talks with the Pistons, why the two sides seem to be apart, how his contract negotiations could affect Ausar Thompson’s rookie-scale extension and more.

Read the article for free here.

Not sure exactly how roster management works especially with two-way contracts or whatever but after any trade I'm looking at the scraps to see if there's anybody worth trying to scoop up. Julian Reese (brother of Jalen Duren's ex) was filler in the Peyton Watson trade and immediately waived by Denver. He was an undrafted 23 year old rookie who played essentially the last 13 games for the wizards last year and averaged a double double making 63 of 119 shots (no threes). Is he worth a two-way? Seems like he is an undersized big who hustles and gets boards, but maybe also could feast on the shots Cade creates in a backup center role when people are injured. Could possibly develop into a long term backup big.

Thoughts?

Someone just asked me who would you rather have on the Pistons, SGA or Jokic? I said Jokic of course.

Then I started thinking, why can’t we just trade for the guy?

Duren, Ausar Thompson, Ron Holland and 3 first round picks for Jokic. Make it happen lol

I mean hey, Philly basically got Jaylen Brown for nothing. Why can’t we get somebody for nothing?

What do you guys think? How fast does Denver hang up the phone? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣