Pistons Acquiring Dennis Schroder as Part of Massive Jimmy Butler Trade

According to a report from ESPN Senior NBA Insider Shams Charania, the Detroit Pistons have acquired guard Dennis Schroder from the Utah Jazz.

This news comes right after Schroder was traded to the Jazz from the Golden State Warriors as part of the Jimmy Butler trade. This marks the seventh team that Schroder has played for in four years.

This season with the Warriors and the Brooklyn Nets, Schroder has averaged 14.4 points, 5.5 assists, 2.6 total rebounds, and 1.1 steals per game.

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Schroder has publicly criticized the NBA trade deadline, saying that the it is "terrible for the league" and even comparing it to slavery.

"It's like modern slavery," Schroder said, per James Herbert of CBS Sports. "It's modern slavery at the end of the day. Everybody can decide where you're going, even if you have a contract."

"Yeah, of course, we make a lot of money and we can feed our families, but at the end of the day if they say, 'You're not coming to work tomorrow, you're going over there,' they can decide that. They got to change that a little bit."

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Schroder began his professional basketball career as part of Phantoms Braunschweigh in Germany, his home country in 2010. In 2013, he was named Bundesliga Most Improved Player and Bundesliga Best German Young Player.

Schroder would then join the Atlanta Hawks after they selected him with the 17th overall pick in the 2013 NBA Draft. He would remain with the Hawks until 2018 when they sent him to the Oklahoma City Thunder.

Schroder would then find himself playing for multiple other teams over his NBA career, including the Lakers, Boston Celtics, Houston Rockets, Toronto Raptors, Nets, and Warriors.

In his 12-year NBA career, Schroder has averaged 14 points, 4.9 assists, 2.9 total rebounds, and 0.8 steals per game.

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While Schroder has been an NBA journeyman, he has remained a constant presence on the German national team. In 2023, he led Germany to a gold medal at the FIBA World Cup and was named FIBA World Cup MVP.

Schroder was also an integral part of the German 2024 Summer Olympics team, although they came up short against Serbia in the bronze medal game.

Still, he was named to the FIBA Olympics All-Star Five Team alongside Stephen Curry, LeBron James, Victor Wembanyama, and Nikola Jokic.

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