Well himself and Falk said he doesn't want to be traded. He wants to be a free agent for the first time in his career with full rights, keeping his rights for a sign and trade is sensible... but if he does wave them, so be it... (Im sure it would be strategic)
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nba/pistons/2014/12/17/greg-monroe-trade-free-agency/20541965/
Teams have been calling the Pistons, asking about Monroe's availability in a trade. But they keep getting the same answer: Monroe, who must approve any trade because he accepted Detroit's one-year qualifying offer, is not interested an in-season trade for several reasons.
It's not 100% deal-breaker, but Monroe is not enamored about the idea of joining a team mid-season, without a training camp to learn a new system.
Monroe, 24, also wants to retain his Bird rights – an in-season trade on a qualifying offer would negate that – in case a team Monroe wants to play for after this season doesn't have the cap space to sign him to the deal he seeks. That team could obtain him in a sign-and-trade with the Pistons.
There have been lots of comments prior to this indicating Monroe wanted to be traded. --including plenty of things he said himself.
The Pistons were in talks with other teams only a couple weeks ago.
Not sure if Falk is now just trying to be difficult but his initial comments a couple weeks ago were that he wasn't gonna be calling around to teams but they'd listen to offers.
Now he is saying we'll just wait and that was the plan all along. Which is rather inaccurate but the guy is an agent, lol.
It is pretty clear Monroe'd like to move but only to someone who will commit to him for big money right now.
Falk admits he's been frustrated by the losing. But Falk is running the show and telling him to be quiet and play nice.
Anyway's he appears as of now to be off the table for anyone without a good amount of cap space so he becomes a non-factor for the Mavs or anyone else decent.
He can end up in NY next year or somewhere like that where they pretend to try to win.
No one that actually wins has real cap space.
The Bird's rights are likely pointless but I am sure he'd like to envision a large signing with the winning team of his choice where Detroit helped them along.
Instead I suspect he'll end up in NY or LA on bad teams. Life in NY and LA is pretty sweet for a guy making 12-15m per.
