Detroit Pistons: Ranking trade assets heading into the offseason

As the Detroit Pistons begin to plan their first offseason under Troy Weaver, it is worthwhile to rank the tradeable assets they have on the books.

For a team that only won 20 games this season and was on pace to jump even farther into the lottery odds should the season have succeeded, the Detroit Pistons oddly have some interesting trade assets to consider when building their roster moving forward.

None of these players or picks are the traditional trade assets that teams look to hoard. The Pistons are not building up a war chest to take a swing at the next disgruntled star at this point. They are starting the rebuild (if the new front office gives the vocal portion of the fan base what they want) so right now it is all about accumulating young talent and possibly absorbing bad contracts to bring in additional assets.

For the purposes of this exercise, everything is on the table. Even if some of these players are unlikely to be traded (or for the Pistons to even consider) it is worth considering the hierarchy of assets. This is not a ranking of how much these players (or the one pick involved) matter to the future of the Detroit Pistons. This is about whichever team that is ostensibly closer to competing than Detroit would value what they are calling Troy Weaver about.

Sometimes it is tough for fans to delineate between what they think of their players and what people outside of their team bubble do. For instance, as excited as some of the diehards were about the potential of Christian Wood last summer, most people who root for the Pistons did not even know his name. Now he is the number one offseason priority to re-sign. Going into this exercise with the mindset that other teams will think of players differently is essential.