After hosting Cade Cunningham for a visit, the Pistons are set to bring in two more top prospects – Jalen Green and Jalen Suggs – for private workouts in the coming days, according to Jonathan Givony and Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN.
Sources tell ESPN’s duo that Detroit would also like to bring in Evan Mobley, but the team has yet to schedule a visit for the USC big man.
The fact that the Pistons are conducting workouts with top prospects besides Cunningham shouldn’t come as a surprise. While the Oklahoma State star is widely expected to be the No. 1 pick in the draft, general manager Troy Weaver is doing his due diligence on all possibilities, including trading down from No. 1.
Even if Detroit has already decided to stay put and select Cunningham, it doesn’t hurt to bring in other top prospects — if Green, Suggs, and Mobley end up with other teams, this will be the only opportunity the Pistons have for years to meet with them and gather first-hand information on them.
According to Givony and Wojnarowski, Cunningham doesn’t intend to meet with any other teams besides the Pistons, while Green’s only other workout will be with the Rockets, who hold the No. 2 pick.
Cade not taking any other meetings shows he’s down with the D. He could meet w/ HOU, CLE, ORL, OKC or even GS to try and convince those teams to move up for a trade, but he’s not doing that.
He’s the man….
Sounds to me like he’s short-sighted and stubborn, not franchise player qualities.
DET should trade down
Did you stretch properly for that reach?
A steady, known commodity in Cade or the high-wire, potential superstar in Green.
Methinks, Weaver will go for Green + multiple 1st’s from the ROCKETS.
I should suggest that each has a equal level of reach. I wouldn’t think that NCAA is leaps ahead of the G league.
Green has proven how good he is even in a condensed 15-game season down in Florida. No one besides Houston is going to be able to move up to #1, the Pistons don’t want to miss out on both Cade and Green. It’s just a matter of how much they’re willing to give up to move up one spot. Green is probably a better fit in Detroit so they should lessen their demands to facilitate the trade.
It has nothing to do with what CC thinks of DET or any other team. Players meet with teams solely to prevent losing draft position (which is $$). Players don’t orchestrate trade ups. He meets with DET to prevent slipping past #1. He would meet with HOU only to prevent slipping past #2. If he’s not worried about slipping past #2, he doesn’t meet with HOU or obviously anyone else.
It’s not a huge difference in money between going #1 and #2 (about $1M/year).
Of course to the rest of us $1M is definitely a lot of money, but not these guys.
They haven’t made any $$ yet, so they’re not “these guys” yet. There’s also bragging rights and the like. Where they’re drafted matters a lot. Far more than what team they go to. Isiah Thomas still isn’t over being drafted behind Aguirre.
I love Green and Mobley. But seriously lols. Pistons need to stop the finagling. Cade is guaranteed the next one. He’s a perfect three for Pistons. Bey can be their sixth man. Hayes and Cade are excellent playmakers. Even if you take Cade. You can just wait and see who overpays for him. But I just take Cade. Stop the nonsense please.
my guy any good GM kicks the tires and does their due diligence.
No one is ever a guaranteed anything except for LeBron and AD types. It’s certainly a near-guarantee than Cade is going to be a well above average starter, but a superstar? Not guaranteed.
I’d still take him if I were the Pistons, but I can understand it if they end up trading down to 2 and getting significantt assets.
Agree …… Cade’s good, but he’s not among those surefire, guaranteed ones e.g. Lebron, TD, AD
Draft day is some days away, might as well take a closer look at the two Jalen’s.
Dude Wiseman is on the trading block right now. That’s why you meet the other guys. You want to get to know just because as the article says. Obviously Cade’s not worried.
Cade is probably the guy. 90% sure but since OKC has 1000 1st round picks, you never know what is going to be offered. If OKC offers the Pistons 5 first round picks and somehow one of those picks is in the top 4, he takes it. C’mon Jalen Suggs and multiple 1st round picks would give him a moment of pause and he could pull the trigger. I would take Suggs and multiple 1st round picks
Some of my favorite lines are showing up as the draft draws closer.
OKC doesn’t have a top 4 pick to even offer. Suggs is just due diligence. Detroit 99.5% odds they stay put and draft Cade. If they did trade it would be no lower than 3. Toronto won’t give meet Detroit’s demands to move up from 4.
Other line I saw is that Detroit needs to lower its demands but why? Bow down to the major markets? Nah. If he turns into a superstar he will be in Detroit for 8-10 years. Detroit has proven they’re not cheap when it comes to paying players so if he is good they’ll take care of him. Really though, lots of fans just don’t want to see a major talent in a smaller market. Especially big market fans. They want the superstars in Miami, New York, LA, Chicago, Houston, Orlando , Dallas because those teams get the big network games. Big market fans don’t care about the Milwaukee’s , Detroit’s, Charlotte’s. What everyone fails to see is that these small market teams have some of the most ravenous mouth foaming die hard fans out there and that is good for the NBA.