Devin Booker, Willie Caiuley-Stein, Dakari Johnson

Willie Cauley-Stein (left, with backpack) and Devin Booker (26) are potential Detroit Pistons first-round draft targets. Their former Kentucky teammate Dakari Johnson (87) is a projected second-rounder.

(AP Photo | Charles Rex Arbogast)

Twenty-seven days to the NBA draft. Six more days until there's another game.

No one asked about the NBA Finals in this week's "Ask David" segment about Detroit Pistons-related topics (although there is a Warriors-related question) and hopefully everyone remembers there's still a series to play. I'll take Golden State over Cleveland in a good six-game set, if it ever starts.

For inclusion in next week's version, email your questions to dmayo@mlive.com and put "Ask David" in the subject line or send them in via Twitter.

Off we go:

Q: Should Greg Monroe bolt, would you rather have Kristaps Porzingis or Willie Cauley-Stein as your big man of the future? -- Scott

A: That's a rubber-meets-the-road question. Very good.

I wrote last week that teams don't scare away from internationals just because they're internationals. But most top players in this game still come through U.S. colleges. So you go directly to a question predicated upon a potential vacancy based on a likelihood (Monroe leaving) and whether, given a choice, it should be filled with an international player who more directly fits the Stan Van Gundy style (Porzingis, a range-shooting power forward) or a college veteran who has major defensive upside and should benefit offensively from his ability to run the floor but may be as reluctant as Monroe to take jump shots (Cauley-Stein).

If the Pistons didn't already have Andre Drummond I might say Cauley-Stein. But they do and I won't. Porzingis offers some rim protection himself and if the Pistons wanted to keep playing two interior-oriented bigs together on the offensive end they would have maxed Monroe long ago. Van Gundy didn't do it and neither did Joe Dumars before him. There was a wariness of extending a maximum contract to Monroe that predates Van Gundy because it would give the Pistons either a non-rim-protecting center or an out-of-position power forward at an unmovable price.

Today's Pistons want a front-line power forward with defensive length and multiple dimensions offensively to complement Drummond and the offensive design. Porzingis offers a better mix of those elements, with teen-aged upside. Given that choice -- and to the exclusion of all other possibilities when the Pistons draft at No. 8 overall -- I'd take Porzingis.

Q: How likely are the Pistons to snag Draymond Green away from Golden State? Also, why all the WCS love, I just don't see the fit for what SVG does? -- Christopher

A: There's a lot to like about Cauley-Stein as discussed in the previous answer. I'd be surprised if he slipped to the Pistons and I'd be surprised if they drafted him if he does. Regardless how the draft falls there will be a better option. That's just my opinion. If any of the presumed top-four draft picks (Emmanuel Mudiay, Jahlil Okafor, D'Angelo Russell, Karl Towns) falls to No. 8, the Pistons wouldn't take Cauley-Stein over that player. I also don't think they would take him over Justise Winslow. So that's five automatics Detroit should take -- my opinion -- over Cauley-Stein. Do you take Cauley-Stein over Mario Hezonja, Porzingis, Stanley Johnson, Kelly Oubre and Frank Kaminsky? You have to answer yes to all of those to draft him. Most will be available at No. 8 and it only would take one for the Pistons to pass on Cauley-Stein.

The Green subject is interesting to most readers, so it's good to get this question answered once, then let it play out. I wouldn't be surprised at all to see the Pistons make a major move at Green, up to and including a maximum contract offer. I'd almost be surprised if they don't, given his forthright interest in playing in Detroit, which doesn't happen a lot around here. If you like him (and Van Gundy does), it would be strange not to move on Green. Of course, Golden State has three days to match any offer Green signs. That would be a chess game because the Pistons would tie up money for three days at a critical time in the free-agency process and the Warriors probably will make any team dangle while making a decision they surely already have made. So play the game and get dangled. Make the Warriors pay or get a player you need. If the Pistons could solidify their forward spots for the long term with Green and a first-round draft pick, it could be a memorable summer.

Unless the Warriors just throw a maximum contract at Green and he signs it I would expect him to go through the process and sign a big offer sheet. I would think there's a very good chance it comes from Detroit. Then the Warriors, who are about to play for an NBA championship, would have to decide whether they want to keep together a young nucleus of Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson and Green.

To me, there's no decision. The Warriors have a ready-made, championship-level core. When you're at that level, you don't make one risky decision (letting Green walk to avoid a tax hit) to cover another (David Lee's contract). The Warriors are moving to the Mission Bay area of San Francisco for the 2017-18 season. You might be able to sell anything that first year or two. But if the Warriors leave their best years in Oakland fans would be coming to see the new arena, not the team. That can't happen. The Warriors have to take a top-shelf team across the bay.

Because of the NBA's cap-and-tax structure, with minimum and maximum payrolls, and pretty much every team outside Brooklyn doing business within similar financial parameters, the greatest responsibility any owner has in roster building is knowing when to ignore those parameters. There comes a time to thumb the salary cap and cut the check. A tax hit in 2015-16, an exploding salary cap in 2016-17, a new arena in 2017-18, a championship-level core ... it's all just part of the business continuum. Green stays right where he is if I own that team.

Q: Now that he is gone, Bucketman's worth to the team is more apparent. He seemed to do all the small things without much in the way of thanks and was one of the Pistons' best 3-point shooters on any given night. How was his relationship with Van Gundy? Any chance of picking him up as our backup three? If so, what is the price going to look like?

A: You're referring to Kyle Singler, of course.

If he ever has a bad relationship with a coach, I'll be shocked. I would question the coach, frankly. Unless Singler changes a whole lot in the next few years, he is a cerebral player who makes few mistakes, can be trusted, is selfless, is developing a definable skill with his perimeter shooting, and speaks his mind without talking out of school. You find any player who fits that description in the NBA, a coach will want him.

Singler covered minutes and performed within his limits in a spot where the Pistons were thin and needed some cover. He never is going to be the most dynamic small forward in the NBA, but he is on the verge of becoming an excellent 3-point shooter, and if he stays healthy he will keep a job for a very long time. The Pistons wouldn't have made the D.J. Augustin and Singler for Reggie Jackson trade with Oklahoma City in February if not for the Brandon Jennings injury a month earlier. The Pistons needed a point guard and were willing to trade one, along with a restricted free agent who will get paid this summer (Singler), to try to salvage both last season and solidify the future.

Price tag for Singler now? Jodie Meeks made more than $6 million last year. Caron Butler earned $4.5 million. How does Singler's contributions compare to theirs? You judge. The Pistons didn't want to deal Singler but part of the reason they did had to be the back-of-noggin question of how much he's actually worth. Singler was a tremendous bargain when he was making $1 million a year. Multiplying that by five to seven presents a far different equation.

I'm not saying the Pistons wouldn't want Singler back and I'm not saying he wouldn't come back if the price is right. But the Pistons traded him three months ago. Singler can sign an offer sheet anywhere he wants, comfortable in the knowledge the Thunder can match, which is a pretty good place to be when everyone is healthy. It's possible the Pistons tender and it's possible Singler signs. But I wouldn't think either of those is the first choice for either party. Singler is a pretty smart guy too. He knows the Pistons opened a gap at his position by trading him and he knows what Meeks' contract terms are, in case Detroit cares to enter the bidding.

Sometimes you set your own market.

Q: What restrictions (if any) do NBA teams have on their players' activities, particularly in the offseason? Can they play in any pick-up game they want? Are there certain activities designated as too dangerous that could void the contract? Are the players paid much to go to summer league? Can a player have any pay for summer league included as part of his regular-season contract? Thanks. -- Ishmael

A: There have been standard dangerous activity restrictions in NBA contracts for years, so that any player injured via motorcycle, skydiving, equestrian jumping, martial arts, etc., could have his contract voided. Jay Williams got some money from Chicago when a 2003 motorcycle accident cut short his career, but only because the Bulls didn't take a stiffer financial line.

Players typically have individual trainers, either retained personally or via their agents, to monitor their offseason work. Coaches drop in for on-site visits with players who don't work out at the team facility. As for pick-up games, basketball players play. They find games with other pros, or with college players. The league might frown on playing for Dennis Rodman's international team but playing basketball is part of playing basketball.

Summer-league players receive the standard per diem, which was $106 last year, and a small salary. Everyone gets the same money. You're talking the extremely low four figures in total salary and eating cash. Like barely four figures. It isn't enough money to consider deferring into your regular-season contract, no matter your salary structure. If you're already under contract, it's just a few bucks for the pocket. If you're looking for a job, it's a paid interview. Las Vegas pays more because it lasts longer. Players will try to participate in multiple leagues (Las Vegas, Orlando, Salt Lake City) primarily because it increases their exposure to all professional teams and residually because they keep some cash flow. But if you're not already under contract, summer league isn't a job. It's a way to find one.

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