{"id":790084,"date":"2026-07-18T22:24:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T22:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/790084\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T22:24:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T22:24:16","slug":"demar-derozan-is-being-linked-to-1-surprising-new-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/790084\/","title":{"rendered":"DeMar DeRozan is being linked to 1 surprising new team"},"content":{"rendered":"

DeMar DeRozan<\/a> might be getting the call from the Motor City.<\/p>\n

The Detroit Pistons<\/a> are evaluating the possibility of signing the veteran scorer DeRozan in free agency, longtime NBA writer Marc Stein reported to Substack this week<\/a>. Stein adds DeRozan\u2019s market will become clearer once LeBron James<\/a> makes his own decision in free agency.<\/p>\n

DeRozan, 36, is an unrestricted free agent after being released earlier this month by the Sacramento Kings<\/a>. With averages of 18.4 points and 4.1 assists per game on a deeply-flawed team last season, there is still something to be had there with DeRozan.<\/p>\n

The six-time NBA All-Star DeRozan has seemingly up to this point had two main frontrunners for his services<\/a>. We also learned a few days ago that DeRozan could potentially reunite with one of his former NBA teams<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As for the Pistons, they are a bit of a less likely suitor for DeRozan given their young core led by 24-year-old Cade Cunningham<\/a>, 23-year-old Ausar Thompson<\/a>, and (if he returns in restricted free agency) 22-year-old Jalen Duren<\/a>. Detroit was also already the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference last year, finishing at 60-22 before losing in the second round to the Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But the Pistons did lose scorers Tobias Harris<\/a> (free agency) and Caris LeVert<\/a> (trade) earlier this offseason. While the addition of John Collins<\/a> in free agency should help, DeRozan might be a surprise option as a super 6th man for Detroit next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DeMar DeRozan might be getting the call from the Motor City. The Detroit Pistons are evaluating the possibility…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":787055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3773],"tags":[7,3213,296,188,3860,6,297],"class_list":["post-790084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-detroit-pistons","tag-basketball","tag-demar-derozan","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-pistons","tag-detroitpistons","tag-nba","tag-pistons"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116943327318192767","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790084","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=790084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/787055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}