Detroit are clearing salary..Muscala & Danillo are FAs & might get waived
the worst team in the league doing a trade where they give up 2 2nd round picks seems very strange to me, especially when they acquired veterans for young players. Just very strange, even to save some money.
Here would be my argument. Adding those two players isn't about improving their record, but it's an investment in the development of their other young players.
Floor-spacers (like Gallo and Muscala theoretically are) help their other players develop as offensive players. Cunningham, Thompson, Duren, and Ivey should all benefit from having other shooters on the court.
The more surprising thing to me is how Joe Harris couldn't get playing time on this team in this role.
I also think there's a significant chance that Bagley was disrupting the chemistry, which is something that was noticeably odd in the Pistons game a few weeks ago. But then again, who cares about chemistry if the team is 3-36?