Will the Detroit Pistons decide to trade away Bojan Bogdanovic and Alec Burks this deadline?

Will the Detroit Pistons decide to trade away Bojan Bogdanovic and Alec Burks this deadline?

Two vets that we talked about earlier Alec Burks and boam bogdanovich so my question to you is do you think it would make sense for the Pistons to keep vets like boam bogdanovich and Alec Burks or with the trading deadline you know fastly approaching are you seeing what

You can get for Alec Burks that’s gonna be a free agent this summer you gonna try to see what you can get for boam bogdanovich because it seems like every veteran Team every Championship level team they really want to get a boon on their roster yeah I I think I I think you

Definitely you definitely shop their you shop their values I I think that they are good pieces to have in this locker room both on the court and off the court but ultimately I I’m shopping these because I just have to acknowledge to state that the pisses are in and you do

Have multiple veterans not just them those are probably the two best contributing veterans on the team but you do have guys now like ginari in the locker room like mcow who’s you know we’re laughing at but like has bounced around has some NBA experience like for me I understand the pites are

Approaching this deadline and that’s what makes me nervous as a team that’s trying to avoid infamy a team that’s trying to avoid you know being on the wrong side of history and have the worst record and and that scares me because I’ve seen that I’ve seen you know my Pistons make

You know the the Panic move before and I don’t necessarily think that a panic move is coming but a slight Panic move I I’m just I’m cautious of those so like where I look at Boon and Burks is like you know typically what a team would do

In this case with the pisses is you know you sell them all for a pick that you can you know you can dangle you can entice your fans as like oh this future first and realistically it’s probably like the 27th pick but you can act like

It’s going to be a lottery pick or whatever you have to do to your fan basee to appease them are these seconds and we can these seconds are like late are like late first basically like you know you can Jazz it up however you want

But I think if I’m the pisses I’m kind of threading the needle because Boon to me well I like having him because of the contribution uh clearly he’s made this team better since he’s come back but I think you could find a guy who’s younger like 34 is just such a difference like

If he’s 30 I’m like okay like keep that man but 34 is 34 is is literally you know 10 12 13 years older than some of these guys like like it it just it doesn’t really make too much sense to to keep a guy at that point long term so

What you could do is I I don’t know about I don’t know if you’ve thought like this but if I got Boon I’m I’m making two calls one I’m making a call to the Knicks and seeing okay for forier and Grimes or you could give us

Back the rights to our picks like you could just free up those protections and that way New York is essentially not even giving up really anything they’re just Rel relinquishing a protection and that allows the Pistons more flexibility to make trades for for picks if they

Want to go in for a star in the summer with all this cap space that they have or you know or getting a guy like Quinton Grimes who I think is a young good player that’s kind of fell out of rotation and I think has has real value

Uh to a team like Detroit or the second call I’m making is the New Orleans Pelicans because that is a team that is loaded with a bunch of players that I really like like Naji Marshall like how many times I got to watch this guy go

From out of the rotation to scoring 20 points like herb Jones is a guy that they consistently ranked over Kade Cunningham in top 100 list in the NBA ridiculously like and I like her he’s a good player but obviously he’s not K cam like but those kind of players like the

New Orleans they have just one too many good players like they can definitely package two players or get a better player and you can kind of thread the needle you’re you’re getting a younger guy who kind of fits more so your timeline but also can kind of step in

And contribute right away and you don’t have to necessarily like go the route of just getting picks and then selling fan base on on picks per se uh Burks you know it’s probably a couple second rounders so I think Burks I’d wa I’d be way more inclined to keep just because I

Think second rounders are cool like Troy’s shown hey package a couple second rounders get back into the first get a guy like Sasser like I like that kind of move but um I I I I’m not totally against I’m not totally against keeping perks because I think he is a

Contributing player on this team I understand this team wants to avoid having the worst record in NBA history but if I’m if I’m boan to me just he’s a little too old um I think he’s a damn good player I think he’s I think he’s

Helped this team a lot so I I think you make some calls on on him but Burks I I definitely don’t mind keep because I do I do believe in the value of of a vet in the locker room where are you at with I I I think with

Burks and I heard something the other day and I was just like it it almost kind of made me sick to my stomach and like I like Alec Burks as a player I do um but there are times it looks like he thinks he’s Kobe Bryant

Out there like he doesn’t pass the ball at all he just shoots it like there’ll be possessions where he just does not pass the ball and obviously I get he’s a bat he’s going to be a UFA I heard they want to bring him back

And I’m like there’s no way this guy is coming back for 10 million and you have you know a projection anywhere from you know 50 to $60 million in cap space I could only imagine what a price tag for him could be probably 15 20 million to

Bring him back like straight up like I I could see the Pistons doing that like you know spending a majority of their cap space to bring back a vet that has had his moments here but hasn’t really contributed to winning he’s not a vet that has actually uh helped this regime

In the win total uh for me I would I would try to sell off on Burks and I I know Houston offered multiple seconds uh before Alec Burks when the Kevin Porter Jr stuff happened Detroit didn’t want anything to do with that they they rejected the trade um don’t really know

What they’re looking for but I can guarantee you there’s be contending teams out there that could give you something if you’re looking for picks they’ll probably give you picks you’re looking for maybe a guy at the end of their bench that they don’t really use a

Lot maybe they could do it that way he’s on a cheap deal like10 million you can get a quality player for $1 million in my opinion yeah I agree as for Boon I I think I I struggle with this it’s because I talk to reporters

And they say well the Pistons want to be good next year and they want to keep Bo on I’m like okay 34 like I don’t I don’t know uh how many more years this guy has left in the tank I would assume maybe like another year or two especially the

Way the Pistons use him like boan should not be getting 15 to 20 shots a game on a rebuilding Pistons team he just shouldn’t um he shouldn’t be your second leading scorer behind K Cunningham um I think if I’m Detroit I’m looking to try to get maximum value for ban um whether that’s

Doing a deal with the Mavericks because they’re always interested to your point with the Nicks thing we have mentioned that at nauseum getting our pick back uh maybe taking on forier reuniting you know quitting Grimes and Marcus Sasser having two Houston uh cougars on the Detroit Pistons I mean um I think

There’s so many opportunities to get creative with trade packages for boan but the Pistons just seem so unserious in terms of trying to trade him their asking price for him I think is actually ridiculous they want a first round pick and a good player for a 34 year old that

For all intents and purposes should be coming off a bench for a contending championship team uh but you know you’re you’re one of the worst teams in basketball and he’s a second option getting 15 to 20 shots a game yeah um I I think if you were to trade both of

These guy I mean Marcus Sasser is gonna get so much playing time if you trade Alec Burks and I think if you trade boan who knows what you get back but that would open more minutes for assar Thompson seems like he can’t even get off the bench nowadays he was playing

Like high 30s to start start the season frustrates me um my biggest thing with this organization right now is they’re so hard on the rookies and they critique every little thing they do but the veterans get a pass the veterans don’t get talked to the veterans don’t uh get

Held accountable like Jaden iy does um I think that’s my biggest issue with this whole coaching staff and I know I’m kind of going a little bit off topic um but I know they’re they fans that want to bring back Burks just telling you he’s not gonna sign for 10 million hell no

He’s like I think he’s 31 or 32 as well he’s probably gonna want at least 15 to 20 uh B’s 34 like I I don’t I don’t know what the Pistons are trying to do like they want to have like a three four combo of like a Tobias Harris and a buam

Bogdanovich is your power forward and small forward I don’t know maybe that get you 25 wins like I I I don’t know what the end goal is for this team personally that doesn’t get that does I’ll tell you what that doesn’t get you is a lot of defensive stops that doesn’t

Get you a lot of a lot of defensive stops it it helps your offense it helps your offense for sure but you know as as we’re as we’re seeing with some of these teams you know like Indiana I think is the most extremest of the extreme

Results of like oh you can only go so far being so good on one end and abysmal on the other so I don’t think that’s necessarily smart for the pisses to lean into but yeah I just think I just think yeah instead of trading both Burks okay

If you get a bunch of SEC rers like I said I’m cool with that I’m also cool with keeping them and riding it out because I I definitely don’t want the pisses to have the worst record in NBA history but I don’t think at the end of

The day I don’t think keeping him or trading him is the is the most defining move uh but I Boon I think you have to get it right I think you have to like you said instead of instead of picks just look at Players unless we get our

Own picks back I do think there’s real real value in that because then you can like we said go into the summer with all your picks and obviously those picks are very enticing because the pisses are the Pistons and if you want to mortgage the future first star you can do that under

The assumption that you have a young core like Cleveland did for Donovan Mitchell like you can you could do that kind of move and you know and and we’re seeing you know it looked Rocky a couple months ago a couple months ago looked like o why did Cleveland do that and now

It’s like okay you know it’s they they got to figure some things out but this isn’t the worst scenario to be in so you know I I think that route or just like you said getting good players that can benefit the team right now that just that just quite frankly more fit the

Timeline like I I I just I again the 34 thing kills me if he’s 30 I get it if he’s 28 29 like like keep them for sure but you know he has tons of miles left and you know 28 you know 28’s a lot different than 2221 like how I think how

I think at 28 versus how how I thought at 21 way way different you know so it’s like so it’s like you don’t have to have like a 36 year old to be like you know to be the the guy that relates to these guys like you know the that you could be

A 28- year old and you can and you can teach these guys young things you can you can you can do those kinds of things so yeah I I think Boon’s the one that got to trade I’m with you though I don’t think they will I think they’re I think

They’re G to be very very very um hellbent on keeping them but uh I I ultimately I I would love for them to trade Boon and that’s no disrespect to what Boon’s been this year like I said he’s been like I said secondy lead score he’s been obviously important to a team

That hasn’t won a lot of games but at some point you have to do long-term pitch you have to do a long-term uh play here and Buon is not your long-term [Applause] [Applause] Play a

This week on Pistons Talk Podcast, Anthony was joined by Chris Platte of Woodward Sports the topic of discussion was what the Pistons will do with key veterans like Bojan Bogdanovic and Alec Burks

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