{"id":147538,"date":"2025-07-04T21:01:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T21:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/147538\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T21:01:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T21:01:31","slug":"pistons-lose-tim-hardaway-jr-to-surprise-west-team-in-free-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/147538\/","title":{"rendered":"Pistons Lose Tim Hardaway Jr. to Surprise West Team in Free Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pistons Lose Tim Hardaway Jr. to Surprise West Team in Free Agency<\/a> originally appeared on Athlon Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It has not been the start to the offseason that the Detroit Pistons had been hoping for as they have already lost multiple players in free agency.<\/p>\n

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Of course, the Pistons entered the offseason with many players on their roster set to be unrestricted free agents, including Tim Hardaway Jr., Malik Beasley, Dennis Schroder and Paul Reed.<\/p>\n

Detroit was able to re-sign Reed to a new two-year contract but they then lost Schroder to the Sacramento Kings for nothing in return despite reports that they were trying to land Malik Monk from Sacramento in a potential sign-and-trade deal.<\/p>\n

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Detroit Pistons newly acquired guard, Dennis Schroder (17) dribbles the ball up the court in the second quarter at Little Caesars Arena.Lon Horwedel-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

The Pistons have also closed talks about a potential comeback for Beasley as he is being investigated due to allegations involving gambling on NBA games.<\/p>\n

That left Hardaway Jr. as the lone free agent left for the Pistons to bring back and that would not be the case as he joined a surprise Western Conference team on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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According to ESPN\u2019s Shams Charania, Hardway Jr. has agreed to sign a one-year contract with the Denver Nuggets.<\/p>\n

This is a massive move by the Nuggets as their busy offseason continues as they now add a sharpshooter to their second unit to upgrade their depth.<\/p>\n

For the Pistons, this is a massive loss as Hardaway Jr. played a key role for them as started 77 games for them and helped them end their playoff drought.<\/p>\n

Last season, the 33-year-old guard averaged 11.0 points, 2.4 rebounds and 1.6 assists per game while shooting 40.6% from the field and 36.8% from three-point range.<\/p>\n

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Detroit Pistons guard Tim Hardaway Jr. at Chase Center.David Gonzales-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

The good news for the Pistons is that they were able to sign Caris LeVert to a deal on Monday but they have now lost two key players from last year\u2019s team and with Beasley being investigated, they may elect to let him walk as well.<\/p>\n

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Despite this, Detroit does still have many options on the free agent market but they need to make some moves to keep pace with other teams in the Eastern Conference during the summer.<\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Jul 1, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pistons Lose Tim Hardaway Jr. to Surprise West Team in Free Agency originally appeared on Athlon Sports. It…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3773],"tags":[7,3882,1024,187,296,188,3860,910,1267,6,2617,297,477,567,911,11846],"class_list":{"0":"post-147538","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-pistons","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-caris-levert","10":"tag-dennis-schroder","11":"tag-denver-nuggets","12":"tag-detroit","13":"tag-detroit-pistons","14":"tag-detroitpistons","15":"tag-malik-beasley","16":"tag-malik-monk","17":"tag-nba","18":"tag-paul-reed","19":"tag-pistons","20":"tag-sacramento-kings","21":"tag-shams-charania","22":"tag-tim-hardaway-jr","23":"tag-unrestricted-free-agents"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114796985473179938","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}