It has been a sleepy offseason for the Detroit Pistons. They entered July with one of the largest free agency war chests in the NBA and plenty of holes to fill after a 17-win season. They subsequently signed zero free agents.
A cursory dive into the team’s history indicates they have not gone an entire offseason without adding someone to the 15-man roster via free agency since unrestricted free agency began in 1988. This team could make history. But the boring kind.
Yawn.
Instead of opting for the “winner’s curse” — aka outbidding everyone for a player and subsequently finding out the only way to actually do that is to overpay and not get value in return — the Pistons decided, as they have done in the past, is to do most of their shopping on the trade market.