Will end up at Houston id say. Man to just give away $26mill like that, guy tustve been a real douche. Wasn't playing well but wasn't playing bad enough to give away that kind of money surely!

Wow, come and join Childress for a holiday in the NBL! Would love to see him with Wollongong.

Could still be a valuable piece to a team that has shooting at the 1, 2 and 3 and 5.

His days of playing small forward are done. Way too easy to scout.

@Kobe24: you just had to watch a Pistons game to know why they got rid of him. He is a pretty damn good post player and a terrible 3 point shooter and all he does is chuck up threes and long twos.

He's good mates with Dwight so Houston is a possibility, but Darryl Morey would HATE his game. With Beverly, Harden and Ariza you have three good-to-great 3 pt shooters, so slotting Smith in at the four, where he can be a third option on offense sounds like an ok fit.

I don't understand why they didn't pull the trigger on that Sacto trade. Unless sacto was demanding picks along with Williams, Thompson and Landry, it doesn't make sense. Those guys are somewhat useful players and could have been flipped into other assets.

J-Smoove's shot chart:

http://on.nba.com/1xbmYaH

MoneyBall - Actually Detroit are paying $30mill for you to play against them. That's how much they valued you.

Flinders80, exactly. That's quite the opinion of his play, to just throw him out and pay him to not play with them, and even play against them. And he gets paid whether he jacks long twos or plays more efficient basketball.

I know nothing about the rules in the NBA. Can somebody explain why they would do this?
There was some mention of a "stretch" provision? Do they get a salary cap concession if he's nolonger listed?

So, would they be planning to sign somebody else this season?

You wouldn't think so with the record they have. Would be a waste of money. Better off blooding younger players.

Things that influenced their trade situation were that other teams wanted draft picks and/or to offload a similarly bad contract. A team looking to rebuild doesn't want to give up draft picks.

The 76ers have been taking on loads of bad contracts (and then ditching the players, essentially) in order to get picks and dominate future drafts.

Look at his shot chart I posted above Dazz, it explains his value to this team.

It's addition by subtraction.

The problem is:

1). Smith can't play small forward in 2014. The defenses are all too good and if you can't stretch the floor you will lose a tonne of games, unless you are a truly elite defensive team, and the Pistons have been ATROCIOUS defensively when the Smith/Monroe/Drummond frontcourt shares the floor together. Monroe and Drummond both can't shoot either, so you're offense is clogged. In fact, no one on this team can shoot, so it makes Smith seem even worse than he is. Clogginess aside, Smith loves hurling up three pointers and long twos, despite not being able to shoot, so it's directly inefficient before you even get to the indirect flow-on spacing stuff.

2). Smith can't play starting power forward for this team because Greg Monroe is better than him

3). You can't bring Smith off the bench because you'll lose him mentally.

So you have to get rid of him, but he's super overpaid and people want picks to take his contract. You can't give up picks because you're a rebuilding team, so you waive him. Super dumb teams like Sacramento or Brooklyn

*Super dumb teams like Sacramento or Brooklyn might have taken him but even they are getting smarter