DETROIT — Tanking time is over. For the Pistons, it didn’t really work, unless former No. 1 pick Cade Cunningham blossoms into a superstar. This year’s reward — the fifth pick in a draft with only three notable prizes — is for sale, by most accounts.
After tanking time comes tinkering time. And then finally, relatively soon, it will be risk-taking time.
Pistons owner Tom Gores unintentionally (or intentionally?) ramped up expectations by signing a proven winner, Monty Williams, to the largest coaching contract in NBA history. Not much ambiguity there. After 15 years without a playoff victory, the Pistons crave credibility, and Gores purchased a chunk. GM Troy Weaver is never afraid to make moves, and with an apparent boost of urgency, he’ll try to weave some deal-making magic.
