FEBRUARY 21: The Pistons have officially signed Walton to his 10-day contract, the team announced in a press release. Detroit will open up another roster spot once Markieff Morris‘ reported buyout is complete.
FEBRUARY 20: After buying out Reggie Jackson earlier this week, the Pistons will fill the open spot on their roster by signing another point guard, Derrick Walton, reports Shams Charania of The Athletic (via Twitter).
Walton, 24, spent most of the 2019/20 season with the Clippers, averaging 2.2 PPG and 1.0 APG in limited minutes (9.7 MPG) over 23 games for the club. However, L.A. sent him to Atlanta at the deadline in a salary-dump deal and the Hawks subsequently released him, making him a free agent.
In Detroit, Walton will have an opportunity to compete for some of the point guard minutes vacated by Jackson. It’ll also represent a homecoming for the Detroit native, who played his college ball at the University of Michigan.
If Detroit finalizes the signing of Walton today, he could be activated for tonight’s game vs. Milwaukee and the deal would run through next Saturday. He’ll earn $81,678 on the 10-day contract.
So basically traded Jackson for this dude…
The tank is on my man
I don’t trust the Pistons tanking
Why not? New front office. Ed Stefanski is now in charge and he comes from Memphis and look how good their rebuild is going. I have a lot of faith that Stefanski can successfully rebuild the team. He isn’t the joke that stan Van Gundy was
I would have traded Jackson for a bag of Basketballs. The dude had no worth left on this Pistons roster.
He was burried on the Clipps bench but he has some talent I can see him turning some heads with the Pistons
Hope so. They struck gold with Wood off waivers. Hopefully lightning will strike twice! Or for their sake repeatedly.