NBA Rumors: Pistons shopping Drummond, Jackson, Caldwell-Pope

DETROIT – The NBA Trade Deadline is Thursday and the Pistons are firmly in the middle of trade rumors.

We've heard before that Stan Van Gundy was shopping point guard Reggie Jackson and center Andre Drummond.

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Now, The Vertical is reporting that they may also be shopping shooting guard Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, who is set to become a restricted free agent this summer.

There are a lot of Pistons players available, I mean, there are a lot of deals that they are open to doing. Andre Drummond, Reggie Jackson, and an interesting one is Kentavious Caldwell-Pope. They love him in Detroit. He’s going to be a restricted free agent this summer, they could not come to a contract extension with him in the preseason. They don’t want to give him a max contract, but you’ve got Brooklyn sitting out there with all this cap space again, other teams with significant cap space who may say, ok we’re going to overpay a little pit for Pope and get a really good young shooting guard and Detroit has been open to seeing what they could get back for Pope. Now I think it’s almost impossible to trade for that player if you’re another team because you’ve got to decide if you’re willing to max him out. Why give up a good asset for Pope right now when maybe you have the space to go sign him this summer? I don’t think that will happen, but I do know that Detroit has been open out there to see what might be available for Pope–not because they don’t like him, but because they want to see if there is another pretty good young shooting guard or a guy (up-and-coming) that they could get that would be available to them. They might prefer that over paying Pope such a big number this summer.


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