Team: Detroit rights only / not under contract · Age: 24 · Position: SG/SF · As of: 2026-07-18
2026-27 median projection
None. No projection is carried and no minutes are allocated to him in the Detroit Pistons 240-minute model. A line is only defensible once he signs somewhere.
Role and evidence
Moore played six NBA games for Detroit, averaging 1.7 points, 1.0 rebound, and 0.7 assists, as shown on the official roster page. His G League page records a much stronger Motor City sample—19.8 points, 4.2 rebounds, 3.0 assists, and 1.5 steals in 27.8 minutes—but that was his fourth professional season.
He signed a Detroit two-way deal on November 10, 2025 (G League transaction release). That was a one-year deal and it has expired. NBA.com's 2026 qualifying-offer ledger lists Moore among the two-way players issued qualifying offers, which confers restricted rights, not an occupied slot.
The slot question is settled and not in his favour. When Detroit signed Elijah Harkless in early July, Hoops Rumors reported he "will join Isaac Jones and 2026 second-round pick Ugonna Onyenso as Detroit's current two-way players" — all three slots accounted for, with Moore not among them, and the signing was reported as filling the final spot. Official roster pages still listing him reflect lag rather than a signed deal. Treat him as undraftable in every format and as a Detroit player only if a new contract is actually reported.
Range
- Ceiling: retains a two-way deal and becomes a low-usage injury replacement with defensive competence.
- Floor: signs elsewhere or remains only a Motor City returning-rights player.
Career record
Pre-NBA: Three years at Duke (2019-20 through 2021-22), 88 games. Freshman 7.4 points on .416/.211; sophomore 9.7 points on .417/.301; junior 13.4 points, 5.3 rebounds, 4.4 assists on .500/.413 as a starter and captain in all 39 games. That junior jump — a shooting split going from unplayable to genuinely good in one year — was the entire draft case. Won the 2022 Julius Erving Award, made second-team All-ACC and the ACC All-Defensive Team, and was a 2019 McDonald's All-American and North Carolina Mr. Basketball. Draft: 2022, round 1, pick 26, Dallas Mavericks; rights traded to Houston and then to Minnesota on draft night.
| Season | Age | Team | GP | MPG | PTS | REB | AST | STL | BLK | 3PM | FG% | FT% | TO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-23 | 21 | MIN | 29 | 5.3 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | .419 | .800 | 0.3 |
| 2023-24 | 22 | MIN | 25 | 3.0 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | .500 | — | 0.2 |
| 2024-25 | 23 | DET/CHA | 36 | 13.9 | 4.2 | 2.6 | 1.2 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.4 | .468 | .818 | 0.8 |
| 2025-26 | 24 | DET | 6 | 10.0 | 1.7 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 | .571 | 1.000 | 0.2 |
| Career | — | — | 96 | 8.2 | 2.3 | 1.4 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.2 | .464 | .828 | 0.4 |
The 2024-25 total splits 20 games with Detroit (11.0 minutes, 3.2 points) and 16 with Charlotte after a mid-season waive-and-sign (17.5 minutes, 5.4 points). The Charlotte stretch is the only extended NBA run of his career and remains his best evidence.
Durability: No injury history worth flagging. Every low games-played total is a contract or rotation outcome, not a health one: waived by Detroit February 6, 2025; signed a Charlotte two-way February 15, 2025; waived by Boston October 16, 2025; signed a Detroit two-way November 10, 2025. He spent most of 2025-26 with Motor City rather than in Detroit's rotation, and scored 27 in a Cruise playoff quarterfinal win in March 2026.
Trajectory: A first-round pick who has never held an NBA rotation spot across four seasons and three organizations, with 96 career games and 8.2 minutes per game to show for it. The G League production is real and the defensive tools were the reason Duke's junior season translated on paper, but the NBA jumper never appeared — 0.2 threes per game for a career, on tiny volume. He is not under contract; Detroit holds restricted rights and its three two-way slots are reported filled without him. He becomes fantasy-relevant only in a chain that starts with signing somewhere at all, then a two-way conversion, then multiple wing injuries above him — which is why the base case here is no projection rather than a small one.
Career sources: ESPN career stats · Wikipedia · NBA.com bio · G League playoff game release
Open questions
- Has Moore accepted the qualifying offer or signed any new contract anywhere?
- With Detroit's three two-way slots reported filled, does he have a realistic path back, or is the Motor City returning-rights outcome the base case?
- Can Moore's G League shooting translate in a low-touch NBA role?