The Detroit Pistons acquired guard Mont Morris in a trade with the Washington Wizards for future draft considerations.
The Wizards got a 2027 second round pick from Detroit (more favored than the picks from Brooklyn and Dallas acquired by Detroit previously).
Washington also generated a traded player exception in the deal.
Morris, 6-2, 183, averaged 10.3 points, 3.4 rebounds and 5.3 assists in 27.3 minutes per game while shooting 48% from the field and 38.2% from 3-point range with the Wizards last season. His 5.3 assists and 3.4 rebounds per game are career highs in a season, and his 5.43 assist-to-turnover ratio ranks second in the NBA during the 2022-23 season. Since entering the league in 2017-18, Morris’s career 48.1% field goals made ranks eighth among all guards in the NBA (minimum 2,000 field goal attempts).
Drafted 51st overall by Denver in the 2017 NBA Draft, Morris played five seasons with the Nuggets and averaged 10.5 points and 4.0 assists in 25.2 minutes per game while shooting 39.4% from behind the arc. The Flint, Michigan native played four seasons at Iowa State University where he was a three-time All-Big 12 selection. In high school, Morris led Flint Beecher to back-to-back Class C Michigan state titles in 2012 and 2013 and won Michigan’s Mr. Basketball award in 2013.