Last week, the NBA Board of Governors, discussed four options for continuing the suspended season. Only one of those scenarios involved all 30 teams and would include the Pistons, who are 20-46 and have the fifth-worst record in the league.
When the season stopped on March 11, they had lost 12 of their previous 13 games and were on the way to finishing with a top-3 lottery position and having the best odds to get the top pick in the draft — whenever that will be.
Wherever the draft pick ends up being in the lottery, it will be one of the most important pieces in reshaping the current roster, which has more than half the players on expiring contracts and entering free agency.