Monday, April 27, 2009

Pistons Off-Season Moves and Trades

The Pistons flamed out in the first vs. Cleveland and the season is mercifully over.

What trades will the Pistons make in the off-season? Who will they sign?

The former is the question to keep an eye on because the 2009 free agent class is nothing special.

But many teams will be looking to unload good players signed to big contracts and the Pistons have a good mix of experienced and young players to trade who might do well in other situations.

The Pistons have to get rid of Rasheed Wallace, that's for sure. Zero points in an elimination game for a guy supposedly as competitive as him is unacceptable. He looked slow and old and uninterested.

The problem is that big guys in the NBA are so hard to find and Amir Johnson and Jason Maxiell showed very little in 2008-2009. Maybe Tayshaun Prince is the one guy the Pistons will have to trade even though he is the most durable player in the NBA.

It will be an interesting off-season with $22 million of Allen Iverson's money coming off the books along with Wallace's contract.

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