THE CRUCIFIX: Cato: Wood isn't thrilled w/ his role...Will depart in the summer

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DET didn't give him away. He just signed as a free agent in HOU and was pretty desirable on the free agent market at that time based on my memory.

DS has just outlined for you exactly what really happened. Objectively, DET pretty much did give Wood away, just like HOU did to Dallas.

As a free agent, by all appearances there was little market for him. He was not one of the in-demand FA's. As the summer unfolded and he had no deal, it was assumed he would sign for the MLE.

HOU got in the mix very late in the game, and he was wrapped into an already-existing HOU-DET-POR trade to enable him to get a few more dollars in his new deal. But there doesn't appear to behave been any value added to DET for dropping him into that already-existing deal. Literally a giveaway.

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/nba/p...682911002/