Detroit Pistons: 1 NBA Draft trade with every team in the Southeast
The Detroit Pistons have four picks in the upcoming NBA Draft and could use some of them to make trades.
With Saddiq Bey, Isaiah Stewart, Jerami Grant and hopefully Cade Cunningham on the way, the Pistons won’t have the roster space or need to add three more rookies, so might look to deal from their second-round picks while unloading some superfluous players that might interest another team.
We took a look at the Western Conference already, and it looked as though the Pacific Division had the best possible trades for the Detroit Pistons.
Now we move onto the Eastern Conference, which has gotten much better over the last few years and will soon challenge the West for supremacy for the first time in a long time.
The Magic, Hornets, Wizards and Hawks all have some interesting potential trades with the Detroit Pistons, but I left the Miami Heat off the list, as they have too many free agents and no draft picks, so it’s way too difficult to predict what their roster will look like.
But the four remaining teams all have some NBA Draft day trade possibilities with the Detroit Pistons, so let’s start at the bottom and work our way up.
Detroit Pistons: NBA Draft trade with the Orlando Magic
The Orlando Magic are similar to the Pistons in that they just traded off two veteran players to kick start their rebuild.
The Magic got a much larger return on theirs and will have two picks in the top ten to go along with some promising young talent already on their roster.
I don’t see a great match here, though the Pistons might have some interest in Jonathan Isaac as a rim protector but probably wouldn’t be interested in paying his contact after he missed much of the season with injury.
So this is a low-stakes trade involving second round picks:
Like I said, this one is not a blockbuster and the Detroit Pistons would only do it if there was a guy available at 33 that they thought wouldn’t be there at 37. They’d probably give up all three picks to move up if there was a guy they liked, especially since they won’t have room for three more rookies anyway.
It’s not exiting but I could definitely see the Pistons using their second-round picks to move up slightly in the NBA Draft, maybe even into the first round.