Stan Van Gundy isn’t only the head coach of the Detroit Pistons. He’s the president of basketball operations, too. He runs the show, makes the trades.
One of those trades you might think he regrets, the one in June 2016 when he traded Spencer Dinwiddie to Chicago for big man Cameron Bairstow, who he then waived. A bookkeeping move. Bairstow went back to Australia, played for the Brisbane Bullets, got hurt and was never heard from again.
Dinwiddie of course has thrived since the Nets picked him up six months later after the Bulls waived him and he wound up with the Windy City Bulls of the G-League.