{"id":497431,"date":"2026-05-19T11:41:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T09:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=497431"},"modified":"2026-05-19T11:41:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T09:41:19","slug":"detroit-pistons-face-crucial-offseason-markkanen-and-kawhi-leonard-among-possible-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/detroit-pistons-face-crucial-offseason-markkanen-and-kawhi-leonard-among-possible-targets\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Pistons face crucial offseason: Markkanen and Kawhi Leonard among possible targets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1488\" data-end=\"1694\">According to <em data-start=\"1501\" data-end=\"1513\">BasketNews<\/em>, citing Omari Sankofa of the <em data-start=\"1543\" data-end=\"1563\">Detroit Free Press<\/em>, the <strong data-start=\"1569\" data-end=\"1588\">Detroit Pistons<\/strong> will be a team to watch on the NBA trade market after their second-round loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1696\" data-end=\"1956\">Among the names linked to the franchise are <strong data-start=\"1740\" data-end=\"1759\">Lauri Markkanen<\/strong> of the Utah Jazz and <strong data-start=\"1781\" data-end=\"1798\">Kawhi Leonard<\/strong> of the Los Angeles Clippers. Detroit owns all of its future first-round picks, including the No. 21 pick in the 2026 NBA Draft, plus several second-rounders.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1958\" data-end=\"2148\">Markkanen remains a complicated target, especially after Utah added Jaren Jackson Jr. to raise its level. Leonard, meanwhile, will enter the final year of his Clippers deal at $50.3 million.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2150\" data-end=\"2302\">The Pistons\u2019 goal is clear: add talent and star power around <strong data-start=\"2211\" data-end=\"2230\">Cade Cunningham<\/strong> after a 60-win season that was not enough to make a deeper playoff run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After their playoff exit, the Detroit Pistons could look for a major move to add star power around Cade Cunningham<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":372595,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[175],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-497431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","rumors-nba-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Detroit-Pistons.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497431"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=497431"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=497431"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=497431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}