DETROIT, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- The Detroit Pistons are expected to complete a deal this week that will send young forward Rodney White to the Denver Nuggets for a player and a first-round pick.
The Detroit Free Press reported Tuesday that White will be traded to the Nuggets just over a year after the Pistons used the ninth pick of the draft on the 6-9 forward.
The report cited an unidentified source close to the team that said the Pistons would receive from the Nuggets a 2003 first-round pick belonging to Milwaukee and a player, perhaps swingman James Posey or big man Mengke Bateer.
White, 22, spent just one season at North Carolina-Charlotte. He did the same at Detroit, playing just 16 games and averaging 3.5 points and 1.1 rebounds as he was buried behind Michael Curry and Sixth Man Award winner Corliss Williamson.
The Pistons also used their 2002 first-round pick on Tayshaun Prince, another small forward who outplayed White during the team's summer league.
The trade would make the rebuilding Nuggets even younger. On draft day, general manager Kiki Vandeweghe swung a deal that landed the Nuggets teenage foreigners Nene Hilario and Nikoloz Tskitishvili.
The trade would be the second for Detroit this month. They sent star guard Jerry Stackhouse, forward Brian Cardinal and center Ratko Varda to the Washington Wizards for guards Richard Hamilton and Hubert Davis and swingman Bobby Simmons.
Tuesday, the Pistons waived Simmons.
