With just 25 games left in their season, the Pistons are prioritizing developing and evaluating their young players, which is a key reason why the team was willing to buy out Reggie Jackson, sources tell James L. Edwards III of The Athletic. The agreement will save Detroit a little money, but more importantly, it will give the team a chance to get a longer look at how young players like Jordan Bone handle point guard duties, Edwards writes.
Jackson gave back a flat $800K in his buyout agreement with the Pistons, reducing his cap hit for 2019/20 to $17,286,956, according to ESPN’s Bobby Marks (via Twitter). Detroit moves further below the tax line and has part of its mid-level exception available, Marks notes (via Twitter), so the team could use its newly-opened roster spot to sign a prospect to a three- or four-year deal before the end of the regular season.
Promoting Bone from his two-way contract to the 15-man roster would also be an option, tweets Keith Langlois of Pistons.com. However, head coach Dwane Casey suggested today that the team may start by using that open roster spot to get a look at some players on 10-day contracts (Twitter link via Langlois).
Here’s more on the Pistons:
- Luke Kennard is still “a ways away” from returning, Casey said today, per Rod Beard of The Detroit News (Twitter link). Kennard, who is recovering from a knee injury, has done some contact work, but isn’t yet ready for games.
- Second-year guard Khyri Thomas, who has been sidelined since late October after undergoing right foot surgery, is expected to head to the G League as part of his rehab process this week. As Beard tweets, Thomas will likely play a couple games for the Grand Rapids Drive before suiting up for the Pistons.
- James L. Edwards III of The Athletic spoke to a handful of sources to try to get a feel for Christian Wood‘s value on the free agent market this summer. According to Edwards, those sources believe Wood is capable of securing a multiyear deal in the range of $5-10MM per year. Edwards suggests a three-year, $30MM contract might make both the Pistons and Wood happy.
- Over at Pistons.com, Langlois passes along some more comments from Casey on what to expect from the retooling Pistons for the rest of the 2019/20 season.
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Bill Davidson was one of the best owners in sports and he would be turning in his grave right now with the unprofessionalism from top down. So sad to see such a fall from grace. Tom gores can go to hell and die. Hey Mr Gores so your a billionaire from flint and you haven’t done anything to help. They still don’t have clean water Elvis looking scum. Coward of a man and the worst owner in sports.
So because he is a billionaire sports owner he is supposed to fix the states water situation…makes sense. Its sad to see how much this comments section has deteriorated in the last year
Although Tommy’s comments are a little extreme, yes… yes he should.
Youre correct he should just sip aquafina and laugh while everyone else drinks lead. Itd be more tolerable if they had a distraction from their degrading day to day lives, perhaps a decent sports team? But gores cant even do that. Literal waste of space is literal.