Detroit Bad Boys · Jun 22, 2018
2018 NBA Draft Grades: Pistons get high marks for finding talent in second round
It promised to be a quiet night in a mostly uneventful draft for the Detroit Pistons. After about three hours the team still hadn’t made their one selection - slated for No. 42. Worse, fans were seeing some of the popular second round targets fall off the board in the 30s.
Not so fast. The quiet Pistons with a front office led by Ed Stefanski but missing several key players, and with a head coach on the job for less than a week had a surprise in store. Detroit traded two future second-round picks to the Philadelphia 76ers for Thomas and then used their own pick on Bruce Brown.
You can read Detroit Bad Boys’ initial thoughts on the drafting of both Thomas and Brown.