Proposed 3-Team Trade Sends Hornets’ Naz Reid to Pistons

Bleacher Report’s Dan Favale proposed a three-team trade Monday that would send Naz Reid from the Charlotte Hornets to the Detroit Pistons.

Charlotte would receive Ron Holland II, Detroit’s unprotected 2027 first-round pick, Detroit’s 2029 first-round pick with top-four protection, and a $23.3 million trade exception for Reid. The Chicago Bulls would take Kevin Huerter into their room exception, along with two Detroit second-round picks and $3 million in cash from Charlotte.

Favale also wrote that “nothing suggests Charlotte has made Reid available.” ESPN’s Shams Charania said on SportsCenter in the offseason that the Hornets planned to keep Reid despite receiving calls about him.

“They already got some trade calls in on [Naz Reid], but the plan is right now to keep him,” Charania said. “This is a team that could still shift the roster around a little bit if they want.”

Holland went in the top five of the 2024 draft, but Favale wrote that Javonte Green has since taken his place in Detroit’s rotation. With one season left on his rookie-scale deal after this one, Holland would cost the Hornets $11.5 million next season. Reid is due $25 million, and his deal runs through 2028-29 with a player option for 2029-30.

Adding the two Detroit firsts would give Charlotte as many as four first-round picks in June, Favale wrote.

The Hornets are 3-7 and have lost six in a row, two of them to the Pistons.

Charlotte acquired Reid from the Minnesota Timberwolves on June 25 in the trade that sent LaMelo Ball and Josh Green to Minnesota. He is in the second year of a five-year, $125 million deal he signed with the Timberwolves in June 2025, and he is making $23.3 million this season.

At media day in September, Reid said he was not super shocked by the trade because it is a business at the end of the day.

“Oh, it’s huge,” Reid said of the opportunity in Charlotte. “Kind of get a chance to kind of be myself and kind of untap into things that I get a chance to untap while being here, and kind of, like I said before, also give some of that veteran experience and playoff experience to some of the younger guys as well. So kind of being able to do both.”

Undrafted out of LSU in 2019, Reid won Sixth Man of the Year with Minnesota in 2023-24. He spent seven seasons there, mostly off the bench, and has started all 10 games for Charlotte.

He is averaging 16.6 points, 8.1 rebounds, and 1.9 assists, up from 13.6 points and 6.2 rebounds for Minnesota last season. His season high came on Nov. 4, when he scored 28 points on 11-of-18 shooting in a 114-104 loss at Brooklyn.

A week earlier in Detroit, Reid started and then sat the entire second half after scoring seven points on 2-of-6 shooting in 13 minutes.

“Unfortunately, [Reid] didn’t meet our standards in the first half, and at halftime we made the decision that he wouldn’t play in the second half,” Hornets coach Charles Lee said. “But I look forward to him meeting those standards come next game.”

Two nights later at Washington, Reid had 12 points and 11 rebounds.

The Hornets host the Cleveland Cavaliers on Monday at Spectrum Center, with tip-off set for 7 p.m. ET.