Kentavious Caldwell-Pope: I’ve had no contact with the Pistons

NEW YORK – Kentavious Caldwell-Pope said he hasn’t worked out with the Pistons and hasn’t had contact with the Pistons.

So, of course, he isn’t expecting to become a Piston during tomorrow night’s NBA Draft.

“It would be surprising just to go to a team that I didn’t work out for,” Caldwell-Pope said. “They haven’t seen me, what I can do. it would just be surprising to me.”

Caldwell-Pope said he didn’t work out for a single team who picks before Detroit (except the Cavaliers, but I’m guessing he was auditioning for their No. 19 pick rather than their No. 1 pick), so I’d think the Pistons could have arranged a work out if they wanted one. Caldwell-Pope said he let his agent arrange workouts, so declining a workout in Detroit wouldn’t have been his call personally if he were invited for one.

Perhaps, the Pistons just have no interest in Caldwell-Pope. Or perhaps, this is a smokescreen to mask their interest in him. That possibility could even include a covert workout both sides agreed not to publicize.

It’s not impossible to concoct a scenario where the Pistons will draft Caldwell-Pope, but Occam’s Razor says they’re not drafting him.