Trajan Langdon has orchestrated one of the biggest turnarounds in NBA history with the Detroit Pistons, and a big part of it has been finding impact players on the fringes like Javonte Green.
When the Pistons signed the journeyman veteran back in August, it was a non-guaranteed contract that didn’t warrant much more than a two-sentence press release, which is pretty much all it got, though I did think the signing had some hidden benefits.
Green had bounced around the league and was never able to stick anywhere or find regular rotation minutes outside of 50 games on a tanking Pelicans team.