If the Detroit Pistons want to make some sort of splash in the trade market this offseason, the Boston Celtics could have an intriguing sale going on.

As the defending NBA Champions will certainly hand over the title next month after a second-round exit against the New York Knicks in the 2025 NBA Playoffs, there is a growing assumption that Boston could see some major changes beyond the core of Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown.

Fans of the Pistons have a taken a liking to the thought of the team trading for Derrick White. As the veteran guard has established himself as one of the best two-way guards in the game, starring in a non-star role for a championship-winning squad, it’s easy to assume he would be a difference-maker.

For Detroit—or any team, for that matter—a White acquisition could be a pipe dream.

“The Celtics’ precise determination to keep their various veterans is difficult to calculate so soon after the defending champions’ Round 2 exit to the Knicks in six games and the devastating loss of Jayson Tatum to an Achilles rupture,” NBA Insider Marc Stein recently wrote. “but the early projections in circulation suggest Boston is more apt to make Jrue Holiday available via trade this offseason than Derrick White.”

Whether it’s Kristaps Porzingis, Jrue Holiday, or White, it seems the Celtics are set to part ways with at least one of their key players due to “luxury tax concerns.”

Porzingis wouldn’t be a logical target for Detroit, as the frontcourt is in good hands at the moment. Holiday or White could bring valuable leadership, defense, and ball-handling to the table.

Both Boston guards have multiple seasons left on their deals. Holiday’s is a little less valuable, considering his player option would kick in during his age 37 season, and would cost a little under $40 million. Next year, Holiday will cost $30 million.

White’s contract would expire when he’s 35. He’ll make $28 million next year, and his final player option would be for $34.8 million. Around the league, he’s considered to be on a valuable deal.

White would be a nice upgrade, but the Pistons aren’t desperate for it. Prior to Jaden Ivey’s season-ending injury last year, he was having a career year. In 30 games, he posted averages of 18 points, four rebounds, and four assists. At 22 years old, Ivey is looking like a key contributor to a winning team. Since Detroit is currently interested in playing a patient game with their roster-building, a trade with the Celtics seems unlikely at this time.

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The Toronto superstar lit up downtown Detroit with a stunning stage production full of blinding lights.

The lights were blinding inside Ford Field on Saturday night — as were the lasers, bursts of pyrotechnics and flashes from phones in the audience — as Toronto superstar the Weeknd brought his After Hours Til Dawn Tour to the downtown stadium, a stunning stage spectacle that made full, thrilling use of the Detroit Lions’ home and made his last stop at the venue, in July 2022, seem like a warmup act.

The stage was outfitted with a long runway that stretched the full length of the stadium floor, with two wings that expanded out to the sides. (From overhead, the stage resembled a cross.) Sections of the venue’s club level were blocked off to house huge lighting rigs which flashed weapons grade strobe lights, and the full production transformed the stadium into a massive dance floor for the sold-out crowd of more than 40,000 fans.

Those fans were treated to more than two hours of hits that were accentuated by dark synth stabs and booming bass drops while the Weeknd, aka 35-year-old Abel Tesfaye, sang over top in his smooth, polished tones. Saturday was the first round of the singer’s two-night stand at Ford Field, and he clocks in again for work at the venue on Sunday night.

“Remember I told you last time we were gonna play two nights?” he asked the audience, and indeed, that was a promise he made at Ford Field three years ago. Such a feat was unthinkable when the Weeknd made his Detroit debut at Saint Andrew’s Hall back in 2012 or when he played an undersold show at the Fox Theatre a year later, but such has been the run for the artist who started with a trio of mixtapes in 2011 and was known early on for never showing his face.

Now his face is everywhere, including the movies, and there were no mentions on stage of “Hurry Up Tomorrow,” the companion piece to his current album which is currently playing to empty audiences at a theater near you and is destined to pick up several Razzies at the end of the year. (The movie is, at best, unsuccessful, and that’s being generous.)

But that’s OK because the stage is where he belongs, and this time his vision was even more fully realized than the last time around, with a crumbling cityscape surrounding the main stage, a mega-sized video wall as the stage’s backdrop, and a towering gold statue at the center of the production that looked like either a hood ornament or an Oscar statue’s female counterpart.

A squad of more than two dozen female dancers wore all red and covered their faces with gold masks, and the Weeknd wore a hooded robe and a mask with light-up eyes for the first few songs. It was like if “Eyes Wide Shut” was a stadium tour, with pop-R&B as the soundtrack instead of the dark, eerie chants from the Kubrick movie.

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Lost in the excitement of draft picks and free agents, a healthy DJ Reader might be one of the most important aspects of the Detroit Lions’ offseason – and the veteran nose tackle will be entering training camp with something to prove after hearing whispers about his contract.

“I think there has been some slight disrespect thrown on DJ Reader’s name this offseason as a cap casualty. … Are you kidding me? They paid for DJ Reader for a reason. This guy is a game-changing nose tackle,” MLive’s Ben Raven noted on the latest Dungeon of Doom podcast.

For the first time in years, Reader is entering an offseason program fully healthy and ready to show Detroit exactly what it invested in.

“The biggest thing that I took away from DJ Reader, he said, like, hey, this is the healthiest offseason I’ve had in quite some time. And he’s just ready to get in there and get back rolling,” co-host Kory Woods said.

The timing couldn’t be better for the Lions’ defensive front, which is facing significant questions with Aidan Hutchinson returning from injury and Alim McNeill working his way back as well. Reader’s presence becomes even more critical.

The podcast hosts pointed out that Reader’s impact goes far beyond statistics. While casual fans might focus on sack numbers and tackles, Reader’s true value comes in occupying blockers, controlling the line of scrimmage, and making everyone around him better.

Despite questions about his deal, Reader made it clear that winning a championship is all that matters.

“He doesn’t care about anything else. He said he didn’t care about whether that extension got picked up or whatnot. Right now it is all about getting to that goal of winning the Super Bowl,” Woods said.

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AI was used to summarize a recent episode of the Dungeon of Doom podcast. This story was reviewed and edited by MLive staff.