The New York Knicks had to clear up cap space to sign free agent guard Jalen Brunson. That's why they traded Kemba Walker, Alec Burks, Nerlens Noel, cash, and the team’s own 2023 second-round pick to the Detroit Pistons.

Kemba Walker should hit the upcoming NBA free agency, ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski reports.

Four-time NBA All-Star Kemba Walker was shipped from the New York Knicks to the Detroit Pistons on Thursday as part of a three-team, draft-night trade.

The Detroit Pistons traded eight-year forward Jerami Grant to the Portland Trail Blazers on Wednesday in exchange for a 2025 first-round pick, ESPN and The Oregonian reported.

Pistons guard Cory Joseph will exercise his $5.1 million player option to return to Detroit for the 2022-23 season, Yahoo Sports reported Tuesday.

NBA champion and 4-time All-Star Rasheed Wallace was named an assistant coach on Darvin Ham's Los Angeles Lakers staff, according to Shams Charania of the Stadium and the Athletic.

Wallace has spent two seasons together as players on the Detroit Pistons with newly assigned Lakers head coach Darvin Ham, including the 2004 season when they won the NBA championship.

Wallace recently has been rumored as a candidate for the job. This past season Wallace worked at the University of Memphis as an assistant coach to Penny Hardaway. Wallace already worked as an assistant in the league in the 2013-14 season for the Pistons.

In his 16-year NBA career, Wallace played for 6 different teams, but most of his years were with the Portland Trail Blazers (1996-2004) and the Pistons (2004-2009).

Ham, for whom it is the first head coaching gig in the NBA, has replaced Frank Vogel, who worked with the Lakers for the past 3 seasons.

NBA today announced that The NBA Paris Game 2023 will feature the six-time NBA champion Chicago Bulls and the three-time NBA champion Detroit Pistons playing a regular-season game at the Accor Arena in Paris on Thursday, January 19, 2023.

The order of selections for the 2022 NBA Draft will be known Tuesday when the league conducts the lottery in Chicago.

The Houston Rockets, Orlando Magic, and Detroit Pistons all have a 14 percent chance to draft No. 1 in this year's draft on June 23.

All three teams are guaranteed a top-five pick in the draft under the revised lottery rules put in place to guard against tanking.

Houston posted the league's worst regular-season record (20-62), behind Orlando (22-60) and Detroit (23-59). The Pistons selected Cade Cunningham as No. 1 in 2021.

Oklahoma City had 24 wins last season, netting the Thunder a 12 percent chance of taking the grand prize in the lottery Tuesday.

"I think you're going to see improvement this year and I think our big move is after this coming year," Rockets owner Tilman Fertitta said of his club's ongoing rebuild.

Regular-season records determined the order of selections from 15-30. The lottery system identifies the teams selecting in the top 14.

Houston, which selected Jalen Green No. 2 in 2021, also holds the No. 17 pick via trade from the Brooklyn Nets in next month's draft.

Green and Cunningham appear to be building blocks based on stellar rookie seasons. Cunningham backs Duke forward Paolo Banchero as the No. 1 pick, but he isn't a consensus top selection just yet. Auburn forward Jabari Smith and Gonzaga 7-footer Chet Holmgren are among the other prospects positioning to be the first player off the board.

Orlando fell to No. 5 in the 2021 lottery despite a 14 percent chance to get the top pick. The Magic selected Jalen Suggs (Gonzaga) with their first lottery pick since 2018.

The NBA draft combine is also in Chicago this week before the June 1 deadline for players to pull out of consideration and return to college.

Team/2021-22 record/Win%/Probability for No. 1 pick:

Houston 20-62 0.244 14.00%

Orlando 22-60 0.268 14.00%

Detroit 23-59 0.280 14.00%

Oklahoma City 24-58 0.293 12.50%

Indiana 25-57 0.305 10.50%

Portland 27-55 0.329 9.00%

Sacramento 30-52 0.366 7.50%

Los Angeles Lakers^33-49 0.402 6.00%

San Antonio 34-48 0.415 4.50%

Washington 35-47 0.427 3.00%

New York 37-45 0.451 2.00%

LA Clippers (to OKC)42-40 0.512 1.50%

Charlotte 43-39 0.524 1.00%

Cleveland 44-38 0.537 0.50%

The order for the remainder of the first-round picks is as follows:

PICK TEAM

15 New Orleans (to Charlotte)

16 Atlanta

17 Brooklyn (to Houston)

18 Chicago

19 Minnesota

20 Toronto (to San Antonio)

21 Denver

22 Utah (to Memphis)

23 Philadelphia^^

24 Milwaukee

25 Boston (to San Antonio)

26 Dallas

27 Miami

28 Golden State

29 Memphis

30 Phoenix (to Oklahoma City)

^ Pick conveyed either to New Orleans, or to Memphis via New Orleans

^^ Pick may be conveyed to Brooklyn