Detroit Pistons: Ranking trade assets heading into the offseason

2. Number 7 Pick

Even as bad as this draft has been touted to be, the seventh overall pick carries some weight. There are rumors swirling about the teams at the top being open to trading back due to the quality of players in this range of the draft. There are no clear-cut stars but the value of the decent starters and core role players on a cheaper contract is enticing.

Many of those rumors involve a team like Detroit using that pick, alongside one of the aforementioned players, to move up for a player like LaMelo Ball. Killian Hayes, Onyeka Okongwu and Tyrese Haliburton, to name a few, look to be the kind of players that could blossom into something special as well.

Potential and cost-effective assets are always intriguing. Even in a draft that is not highly regarded, executives will invariably talk themselves into being the smartest person in the room, unearthing the next diamond in the rough.

Admittedly, the Pistons should not be looking to trade out of this draft unless they are bringing back a young player. This is about moving forward with youth and making a win-now move, however unlikely, would be terribly frustrating. Trading it for, say, a number of the Boston Celtics’ first-round picks, however…