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Do the Pistons have anyone worth trading?

March 1st, 2012 2:31 PM
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    • The Detroit Pistons are 12-25 are 6.5 game out of the playoffs and are heading nowhere this season. Usually teams that are rebuilding trade away veterans at the trade deadline to contenders for young players and draft picks, but do the Pistons even have anyone worth trading? The Pistons either have young players that they want to build around for the future and won’t trade, or veteran players with terrible contracts that no other team would want. Pistons GM Joe Dumars likely won’t be receiving too many trade calls before the deadline, but there are a few players that he could move.

    The most likely Piston to be traded is 23 year old Austin Daye. He is a young 6’11’‘ small forward that another team might be willing to take a chance on. He has recently been taken out of the rotation, and the Pistons’ commitment to Tayshaun Prince in the offseason means Daye is expendable. Prince could provide more value to a contender than Daye, but the Pistons aren’t likely to dump Prince this season.

    Detroit has a log jam at point guard, but they won’t trade rookie Brandon Knight, and they aren’t allowed to trade Rodney Stuckey because of a CBA rule, so Will Bynum is the odd man out. The Pistons won’t get much for Bynum, but a contender looking for a backup point guard should offer something, perhaps a second round pick.

    The only other Piston that could be traded at the deadline is Jason Maxiell. He can be a decent reserve for a contender; he gets rebounds and can score down low. He is 29 right now, and his trade value is as high as it’s ever going to be.

    However the fact is that, none of these players are that good and teams will not offer much in return for the Pistons scraps so is it even worth it to trade these guys?

    The players that Detroit would love to get rid of are Charlie Villanueva and Ben Gordon, but they both earn too much money for another team to want them.

    — John Axelrod

    Two Pistons are just considered untouchable, while one literally is untouchable, because of post-lockout provisions.

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