{"id":17533,"date":"2025-05-08T02:46:18","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T02:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/17533\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T02:46:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T02:46:18","slug":"pistons-gm-trajan-langdon-talks-free-agents-extensions-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/17533\/","title":{"rendered":"Pistons GM Trajan Langdon Talks Free Agents, Extensions, More"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pistons veterans Malik Beasley<\/a>, Tim Hardaway Jr.<\/a>, Paul Reed<\/a> and Dennis Schro\u0308der<\/a> will all be unrestricted free agents this summer. The additions of Beasley, Hardaway, Schro\u0308der and forward Tobias Harris<\/a>, the growth of Detroit\u2019s young core, and the hiring of new head coach J.B. Bickerstaff sparked a 30-win improvement between 2023\/24 and 2024\/25, and saw Detroit return to the playoffs for the first time in five years.<\/p>\n

In the playoffs, the Pistons gave the higher-seeded Knicks all they could handle in a hard-fought first round encounter. Detroit was ultimately defeated in six games, and now faces a summer full of possibilities.<\/p>\n

Pistons team president Trajan Langdon seemed to be relatively open-minded about that quartet\u2019s future in town during his end-of-season presser, writes Omari Sankofa II Detroit Free Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe some of them don\u2019t want to come back, maybe some of them get bigger offers elsewhere,\u201d Langdon said. \u201cIt takes two to tango with our free agents and they have decisions to make. All of them were great for us. I think they\u2019d all be great for us coming back here in terms of what they did for us and how they fit the roster that we have. I can\u2019t give you an answer of which ones because again, it takes both sides to come together on a deal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Will the Pistons seek to upgrade the club\u2019s roster around All-Star Cade Cunningham<\/a> via trades? Langdon seemed to suggest that he would be receptive to trade proposals, but wasn\u2019t looking to muck up his club\u2019s developmental timeline after a first round playoff exit, per Keith Langlois of Pistons.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always said \u2018stay patient\u2019 and I\u2019m not going to change in that regard,\u201d Langdon said. \u201cWe\u2019re going to listen to calls, we\u2019re going to see opportunities. We\u2019re always going to look at avenues to get better that we think make sense for us to improve. A big thing for us this summer is going to be to develop the guys we have \u2013 the young guys we have that are 19 to 22, 23 years old and have them continue to grow. If those guys take steps, we get better. That\u2019s what we\u2019ve focused on and putting people with those guys that can make them better. It was a pretty good formula this year, so we\u2019ll look at everything out there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here are a few more of Langdon\u2019s notable comments from Wednesday\u2019s press conference, via Sankofa and Langlois.<\/p>\n

On the team\u2019s massive single-season turnaround:<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter a couple days reflect, hell of a season for us\u2026 I don\u2019t know another way to put it. Surprising, gratifying. Guess it creates different expectations going into next year for us. We can see that both ways, positively and negatively. But I think there\u2019s way more positives.\u201d<\/p>\n

On emphasizing offseason continuity with the club\u2019s youth movement:<\/p>\n

\u201cAll these guys will come back and that continuity with this, not only the roster but the coaching staff and his philosophy that this group has never had before\u2026 That will be a positive through the summer and through next season as well. The questions will be there, about what we do. Do we add another person or do we just build from within? Like I said before, we\u2019ll look at all avenues and decide what the best avenue is for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

On wing Ausar Thompson<\/a>\u2018s injury-addled sophomore season:<\/p>\n

\u201cAusar \u2013 it\u2019s his second season and he had a shortened first season and a shortened second season because it didn\u2019t start on time and he really didn\u2019t have a summer, either, because of his blood clots. It\u2019s exciting for us that he\u2019ll have a full summer to train as a professional that he hasn\u2019t had yet. To have the season he had without a full summer or training camp is incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n

On guard Jaden Ivey<\/a>\u2018s injury and possible rookie-scale extension:<\/p>\n

\u201cHe had an incredible first two months of the season and he helped this turnaround\u2026 I\u2019m excited to see what his summer looks like and what he\u2019s gonna look like coming back in the fall as well. He\u2019s a guy that impacts the game on both ends of the floor and in-between and in transition. Adding him to the roster we have, I think, will create an even more explosive dynamic and something else that our coaches and players can use to help us win games and have even more success. I think he\u2019s going to come back a better version than he was last to year.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Jaden Duren\u2019s midseason growth and his own potential extension:<\/p>\n

\u201cJD took a huge step after the first 25 games\u2026. He was a different player the last 50, 60 games of the season. He got off to a slow start. We\u2019re hoping we\u2019re going to push him this summer as well and I think he\u2019s willing to take that up to another level. If those guys take steps, we get better.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pistons veterans Malik Beasley, Tim Hardaway Jr., Paul Reed and Dennis Schro\u0308der will all be unrestricted free agents…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3773],"tags":[1026,7,296,188,3860,1648,1018,910,6,2617,297,911,933,6244],"class_list":{"0":"post-17533","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-pistons","8":"tag-ausar-thompson","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-detroit","11":"tag-detroit-pistons","12":"tag-detroitpistons","13":"tag-j-b-bickerstaff","14":"tag-jaden-ivey","15":"tag-malik-beasley","16":"tag-nba","17":"tag-paul-reed","18":"tag-pistons","19":"tag-tim-hardaway-jr","20":"tag-tobias-harris","21":"tag-trajan-langdon"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114469928146056414","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17533","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=17533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}