Motiejunas attacks Pistons and NBPA over bowl trade wreck

At 31, he’s trying to keep a good standard. He plays with Monaco in the EuroLeague but Donatas Motiejounas believes the Pistons have done a great deal of damage to his career and he says so publicly after the failure of the swap that would send the bowl from the Nuggets to the Pistons.

The Lithuanian saw the news on Twitter and initially wondered “How often will the Players’ Union allow this?“explains how:”I was out of medicine and the doctors in Detroit told me I would never play basketball again. Six years later, I’m still here with a long time ahead of me. They’re ruining their youth and their NBA careers“.

Motiejounas was handed over to the Pistons in February 2016, with the trade being cut short immediately following his medicals. He returned to the Rockets, got fired at the end of the season, saw the team equalize the Nets’ proposal (37 million for four years), didn’t show up in his prep, agreed a few days later for 36 million, but that Team put him on the sidelines after the medicine, which caused relegation to begin for him.

Overall, the Lithuanian played 248 games in the NBA from 2012-17 and another three in the 2018-19 season, with China serving as a stopover for the Shanghai Sharks and Xinjiang Flying Tigers. This year he has 9.1 points and 3.7 rebounds per 17:25 with Monaco in 18 EuroLeague games.