On Thursday, veteran NBA point guard Dennis Schröder was traded yet again, reportedly landing with the Detroit Pistons after being rerouted several times.
It started on Wednesday, when the Golden State Warriors sent him to the Miami Heat as part of the blockbuster Jimmy Butler trade. He then was rerouted to the Utah Jazz as part of the deal, who have now passed him off to Detroit.
Schröder only recently landed in Golden State, having been traded to the Warriors on Dec. 15 after a short stint with the Brooklyn Nets. He only landed with the Nets after being traded by the Toronto Raptors last February.
All in all, Schröder is on his fourth trade of the season, and his fifth trade of the past year.
Schröder, 31, is a 12-year veteran of the league, drafted by the Atlanta Hawks in 2013. Detroit will be Schröder’s ninth team in eight seasons, including his short time at Golden State.
Per ESPN’s Marc J. Spears, Schröder was “pulled out of the showers” on Wednesday, ahead of the Warriors’ game in Utah after warming up with the team. Schröder had recently signed a lease in San Francisco, per Spears, and had expected to stay with Golden State long-term.
The flurry of trades is especially tough given that Schröder has been vocally opposed to the tendencies of the NBA trade deadline. In an interview with NBC Sports Bay Area on Tuesday, Schröder compared the trades to “modern slavery,” calling it a “cutthroat business.”
Schröder admitted that he was used to things after his experiences in the league. “For me, being in my 12th season, business is business,” Schröder said. “I know how it works. For me, it’s a business at the end of the day.”
But last weekend’s shocking trade that sent Luka Dončić to the Los Angeles Lakers seemed to rattle Schröder especially. The 31-year-old guard noted that no one was “safe” from a trade, not even players like then-teammate Stephen Curry.
“It’s like modern slavery,” Schröder said. “It’s modern slavery at the end of the day. Everybody can decide where you’re going, even if you have a contract. Yeah, of course, we make a lot of money and we can feed our families, but at the end of the day if they say, ‘You’re not coming to work tomorrow, you’re going over there,’ they can decide that.”
Schröder will now join a middling Pistons team for a chance at yet another fresh start.
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