Pistons would help themselves beating Minnesota tonight. Edwards is questionable and McDaniels is out.
With only 7 games left it appears the Minnesota pick will fall into the 21/22/23 slot with Detroit being 28th. So they move up a bit, but its pretty pointless. Vecenie said most players in that range are so similar they could go 20th or 30th.
I do see people saying the Pistons should try to move up. Terrible idea IMO. Vecenie also said for the first time in his career he will be giving out more than 30 1st round grades. So the draft is deep. In deep drafts you don't move up, you accumulate extra picks.
OKC should be a target of Detroit to acquire an extra pick. Currently, they are 15th. Well, the Clippers are 15th but it goes to OKC.
There were reports around the trade deadline OKC would move this year's pick for future picks if they didn't end up top 5. They don't want to add guaranteed contracts to their expensive roster. They want to push those picks off a few years when they start to ship out more expensive players.