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It's no secret that Stan Van Gundy and Jeff Bower traveled to Europe last week. It's no secret which players they went to see. The Pistons have a top-10 lottery pick – they'll find out exactly where on May 19 – and there are two Europeans widely projected to be top-10 picks. Pictures of Van Gundy sitting near Pat Riley hit the internet before Barcelona's win in Spain's ACB was complete last Thursday.
There was a time teams could have slipped in and out of Europe – or backwater Oklahoma, where the Pistons unearthed Dennis Rodman, for that matter – unbeknownst to the world at large.