Josh Smith is a power forward, not a small forward.
He can't play both effectively. Detroit tried to make him a SF last season and he had a terrible season.
But there's no point in arguing this. He isn't coming here to play 20 minutes a game for the vet minimum and if Griffin is serious about valuing shooting I doubt he'd want him even if he would.
Sounds to me like any team could pick him up for the vet minimum. Is that the case?
http://www.foxsports.com/detroit/story/pistons-waive-josh-smith-122214
He'll be a free agent AFTER he clears waivers unless a team picks him off of waivers which is highly unlikely because then that team will be responsible for his contract. In essence, the Pistons just released an asset knowing full well that they would still have to pay him as he played for another team.
I'm assuming SVG was trying to trade him but nobody wanted him and so he decided to release a guy who he thought was a cancer. All of this should give any team pause before it picks him up, but of course, different scenery could provide different results.
The dream may be dead now with Andy's injury.
I thought it would be easy to understand given the thread this was posted in; another wing of course. Not sure we have the assets to acquire both a wing and a center, this season anyway.What dream?