Jackson wants to be a starter. Jennings is the incumbent at PG unless they trade Jennings which will be hard to do with him injured. Their 2 highest paid players will both play the same position, not a good scenario for team harmony and chemistry. As I said in the title, Jackson is a legitimate offseason target
AUBURN HILLS -- Detroit Pistons coach Stan Van Gundy said he had about 20 minutes to sit down and talk with Brandon Jennings about the team's reasoning in trading for point guard Reggie Jackson.
He said Jennings understood, even if the injured point guard might have preferred the Pistons not make a move at his position.
"Brandon's a great guy and a team-oriented guy, and understands the situation, and probably would have rather we didn't -- I'm going to guess -- but he's on board," Van Gundy said. "He knows what we're trying to build here. And again, I think Brandon wants to win. He really, really wants to win. So he was fine with it. There was no problem. There was no pushback from him or anything else."
Jennings, who has one year remaining on his contract, suffered a season-ending torn left Achilles tendon Jan. 24 at Milwaukee.
Jackson can test the market as a restricted free agent this summer. The Pistons hope to sign him to a long-term contract, but doing so gives them two highly paid players at the same position, and Jennings could be difficult to trade while injured.
It is possible the Pistons could have both Jackson and Jennings next season.
"I told him what our thinking was, in terms of both bringing Reggie in and what our thinking was going forward," Van Gundy said.
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