The Pistons are trading Caris LeVert and two second-round picks to the Bucks for Taurean Prince and Gary Harris, ESPN’s Shams Charania reports (via Twitter). Pistons will create a traded player exception from the deal and gain cap savings.
Both of the picks Milwaukee will receive will come in next year’s draft, according to Omari Sankofa II of the Detroit Free Press. Detroit had controlled three 2027 second-rounders: their own, Milwaukee’s pick, and the least favorable of Brooklyn’s and Dallas’ selections.
All three players on are expiring contracts but LeVert has by far the biggest salary, ESPN’s Bobby Marks tweets. LeVert will make $14,809,200 next season. Prince and Harris both have $3,815,861 salaries after exercising their player options.
The traded player exception created by the Pistons will be equivalent to LeVert’s outgoing salary. They will generate approximately $7.2MM in cap flexibility as a result of the deal. That extra breathing room below the tax line could be used to accommodate a new contract for restricted free agent Jalen Duren.
The Bucks will be LeVert’s sixth team, assuming Milwaukee doesn’t trade or release him. In 60 games off the bench last season, the 6’7″ guard averaged a career-low 7.4 points, 2.0 rebounds and 2.7 assists. His shooting numbers were also down, as he made 41.7% of his overall field goal attempts and 33.3% of his three-point tries.
Milwaukee had controlled just two future second-round picks prior to this trade agreement, Marks notes, so that number will double to four as a result of the deal.
Prince missed most of last season after undergoing surgery in November to address a herniated disk in his neck. He appeared in 26 games, including seven starts, averaging 9.2 points and 3.1 rebounds in 23.5 minutes per game. The veteran forward, who started 73 of 80 games for Milwaukee in 2024/25, is a career 38.7% three-point shooter and could find playing time at either forward spot for Detroit if he is indeed in the team’s plans.
Harris appeared in 48 games last season. With the Pistons already facing a logjam at shooting guard, it’s unlikely that Harris was anything more than a throw-in to this deal.
