The Detroit Pistons are fresh off a 17-win season and need big improvements to the roster this offseason.
They will start in the draft, where they will have the 5th and 31st picks. Early odds had them taking Cam Whitmore with that pick, but things have shifted so many times I can hardly keep up.
A lot of this pre-draft chatter is just smokescreen as teams try to keep leverage by not revealing their hand, so take everything you hear in the next few days with a grain of salt until it is official.
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On a recent episode of the Game Theory Podcast with Sam Vecenie, Pistons’ beat writer James Edwards III had this to say about the Pistons and Whitmore:
“Over the last 24 hours, I get the sense that Whitmore isn’t in the cards.