{"id":25632,"date":"2025-05-11T17:20:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T17:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/25632\/"},"modified":"2025-05-11T17:20:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T17:20:14","slug":"pistons-notes-cunningham-langdon-ivey-trade-assets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/25632\/","title":{"rendered":"Pistons Notes: Cunningham, Langdon, Ivey, Trade Assets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that Cade Cunningham<\/a> has established himself as one of the NBA\u2019s best guards, Pistons president of basketball operations Trajan Langdon believes he\u2019ll become a target for other players, writes Coty M. Davis of The Detroit News<\/a>. Cunningham earned his first All-Star appearance this year, averaging 26.1 points, 6.1 rebounds and 9.1 assists in 70 games, and is considered a strong candidate for All-NBA honors.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was looking at other players and had a target on their backs, and now, he is going to have a target on his,\u201d Langdon said. \u201cPlayers are going to be like, \u2018Man, I am going against Cade Cunningham tonight. I\u2019m going to get my rest because people are going to be watching.’\u201d<\/p>\n

Davis adds that Cunningham\u2019s exit interview with Langdon and coach J.B. Bickerstaff focused on the increased attention he\u2019s likely to get from opposing defenses. He got a taste of that in the playoffs as New York took a physical approach with Cunningham and utilized multiple coverages, limiting him to 42.6% from the field in the six-game series.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe big thing for him, and we talked to him about it, get into elite shape,\u201d Langdon added. \u201cHe is incredibly skilled and talented. He understands the leadership of it. He now has a little bit of late-season and playoff experience, he knows how it feels. So, now, he has an understanding of what he is training for in the summer. If you have never experienced playoff basketball, you don\u2019t understand the level you have to go to. He should be training for the first and second rounds of the playoffs. Not just Game 45 (of the regular season) anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

There\u2019s more from Detroit:<\/p>\n

Jaden Ivey<\/a> is looking forward to a fresh start after missing most of the season with a broken left fibula he suffered in a New Year\u2019s Day game, Davis adds in a separate story<\/a>. There was some optimism that Ivey could return by the end of the season, but the Pistons decided not to take that risk. \u201cThis has been painful for him,\u201d Langdon said. \u201cHe is an incredible human being, teammate; he has been supportive. But it has been hard for him to watch our run.\u201d
\nOmari Sankofa II of The Detroit Free Press<\/a> doesn\u2019t expect the Pistons to pursue a star this offseason, but he notes that the organization has the assets to consider that route. The team is finally free from the restrictions of the Ted Stepien Rule<\/a> and can part with multiple future first-round picks in a trade for the first time in five years. Sankofa states that Langdon could offer up to four first-round selections and three first-round swaps if he decides to chase an elite player.
\nUnless they can somehow land Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/a> or Devin Booker<\/a> this summer, the Pistons\u2019 best strategy is to keep their young core intact, contends Shawn Windsor of The Detroit Free Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Now that Cade Cunningham has established himself as one of the NBA\u2019s best guards, Pistons president of basketball…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3773],"tags":[7,909,296,188,3860,1018,6,297,6244],"class_list":{"0":"post-25632","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-pistons","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-cade-cunningham","10":"tag-detroit","11":"tag-detroit-pistons","12":"tag-detroitpistons","13":"tag-jaden-ivey","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-pistons","16":"tag-trajan-langdon"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114490351634805974","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25632","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=25632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}