AUBURN HILLS -- Trader Stan regularly listens to the results of Trader Jeff's chats with other general managers on trade outlines, and if Detroit Pistons president of basketball operations and head coach Stan Van Gundy hears the right one from general manager Jeff Bower, they will be back in the market soon enough, wheeling and dealing again.
It has gone that way often. The Pistons' brass made seven trades in nine months from October 2014 through July.
Taking the pair of deals in the final hour before last season's trade deadline holistically, rather than separately (net result -- Reggie Jackson and Tayshaun Prince for two second-round picks, D.