ORLANDO – Eric Moreland knew the Pistons had a need for a No. 3 center when he chose to join their Summer League team over other offers. But it wasn’t that Moreland felt he was auditioning for that job as much as he saw it as his best chance to audition for all 30 NBA teams.
That’s the reality for all players in Moreland’s situation who came to Orlando or Las Vegas every summer looking to land one of the 450 most coveted jobs in the basketball-playing world.
Through the first two games of Summer League, Moreland has done about all he could to state his case that he deserves one of those jobs – or perhaps one of the 60 more than have been created with the addition of two “two-way” contracts per team.