The trade deadline is basically upon us, we're gonna be recording the mock trade deadline, Danny.

Ten days from now?

This early trade deadline, my body clock is all off, it's like I traveled to a foreign country every year now,

but this is like the third year of this already.

So we gotta get started and I think the best place to do it is in the central division where

Andre Drummond might be the biggest name who has been the discussion of trade talks.

Yeah, he has been and for those who are newer to this, the way we do it is division by division,

and then go through a bunch of different pieces of information for each team.

And for the pistons, I'm gonna start with their fundamentals, just so people are in the same place.

They are barely under the luxury tax right now.

Within $5,000 is where I'm seeing it, so that means you know, you can't even make a

make a 10-day signing, you can't really do, you can't really do anything outside of

giving your two-way guys minutes.

Now, that is a circumstance they can resolve itself very easily through any sort of trade where they

should salary. Also, should they clear a little bit of wiggle room, the pistons have trade exceptions

where 2.5 and 1.1 million, both of which expire on the deadline, and they also still have a portion

of their mid-level exception left. It started at 1.9 million, according to what I had,

and that will pro-rate, the mid-level exception starts pro-rating, reducing on January 10th,

so that just happened. But so if they clear some salary, there are actually ways for the pistons to add

plans. Yeah, and most interesting to talk about here is what the market has been for

drumming discussion that the hawks could be interested, but James Edwards III of the athletic

reporting that the pistons are not getting any offers with assets for drumming,

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