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Detroit Pistons president of basketball operations Trajan Langdon made it clear Thursday that the franchise has identified a young core it intends to build around moving forward.

While he did not mention them directly by name, Langdon repeatedly referenced the team’s top three players – Cade Cunningham, Jalen Duren and Amen Thompson – and emphasized the importance of surrounding them with complementary talent.

According to Langdon, one of Detroit’s biggest priorities is adding more shooting and secondary playmaking to create a better offensive environment for its core players.

“Spacing the floor is huge and just giving more optionality on the offensive end to have more creativity,” Langdon said.

“When you have multiple ball-handlers and more shooting on the floor that opens it up for our three best players.

“Those are things we’re looking at. How do we fill that? Can we fill it with two players, do we fill it with one, or do we do it with a big, we’ll look at all those different options.”

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