Well, Lowry’s fantasy value just skyrocketed.

Trade Grades:
A ~ Memphis: they got a young PF who has been playing well and was recently named on espn as one of the top 25 under 25 players.  Got a good vet sf in prince, playoff warrior and still a very smart player.  This was the excellence of the trade for memphis, yes you lose some scoring but with prince returning to a 4th/5th option role now, that 12-13pts per game is going to be great for them.  Can see this really helping memphis.  Daye if he can hit some shots for them, maybe a team in the summer gives him a chance. 
B+ ~ Detroit: with calderon add a true pass first pg/playmaker that should thrive with the bigs in detroit.  This should help in their playoff push with boston losing rondo and only philly in front of detroit.  Toronto could be a threat here as well.  Our backcourt will have some size disadvantages as well with knight/calderon.  Calderon’s expiring deal helps Detroit as well for the future giving them another 10+mil in cap space this Summer.  I think this puts detroit at about 33mil in space for the summer.  USE IT WISELY JOE DUMARS.  If they amnesty CV thats another 7mil.  Only negative for me is we didnt get mybe a 2nd rd pick back or something more.  
C — ~ Toronto: good for toronto to get a high caliber starting sf.  Gay is just at the level behind camello, who is a notch below lebron/durant.  So Gay should have matchup advantage most nights.  I dont like Toronto giving up ed davis as part of this, because not only is he a good young player, but he is producing right now.  His defense will be missed and i think will weaken the raptors there.  The raptors are now forced to start and play lowry heavy minutes at pg, which the coach has been reluctant to do as calderon had beat him out.  Not sure if this helps or hurts their offense.  

Finally the Pistons have a legit PG in Calderon.  Good trade for the Pistons.  Daye was not doing anything for the team and Tayshaun was holding the team back from moving forward in the rebuilding period.    

It’s a good salary dump, Prince just doesn’t fit where the roster is going. Calderon will be a decent rental for the rest of the year….though he is not going to lead to a 180 as far this year is concerned; the team likely still isn’t going to make the playoffs. The real value of this trade will be assessed based upon how the potential salary cap space will be used this summer, or indeed in another trade; who ends up on the roster starting next year will be a great indicator of this transactions’ value. 

in retrospect, how bad does joe’s non-trade of tay a couple of years ago look?
back then, he could have gotten caron butler’s 10 million, plus expiring contract and a first round draft choice.
now, he trades tay and a former first rounder for that 9.7 million dollar expiring contract.  and nothing else.
shoulda pulled the trigger back then. 

I think bringing Big Ben back would be great. Vet minimum, and keep him around for practice to teach our big men how to fight and give maximum effort. Ben Wallace is the PERFECT person for Drummond to be around, nobody better to learn from (effort wise) that Big Ben (my favorite piston ever) Obviously Calderon is not here to stay, but like some have mentioned he has a big expiring contract. I think the next thing for us to do now is amnesty Unk Chuck (even though I like his effort this year) he is being paid starter money for bench worthy performance. We will see how B. Knight does with the SG position to finish the year and if he thrives we can use our cap to sign a good PG if hes awful either continue him at the PG and sign a SG or possibly package B. Knight with Maxiell for one of the 2 guard positions we dont fill with free agency. HOWS THIS SOUND FELLERS!!!?