
On a wild day of NBA trades, the Eastern Conference-leading Pistons decided to part with fourth-year guard Jaden Ivey. Detroit selected Ivey out of Purdue with the fifth pick in the 2022 NBA draft under a previous front-office regime.
Ivey landed with the Pistons one year after the franchise selected Cade Cunningham with the top pick of the ‘21 draft. While the fit of Cunningham and Ivey raised some immediate questions, the franchise seemed poised to make the pair work as its backcourt of the future, even when Trajan Langdon took over as president of basketball operations ahead of last season.