Greg Monroe isn't sure where he'll be playing next season, but he's pretty sure it won't be with the Detroit Pistons.
Pistons coach and team president Stan Van Gundy had already made it known that the team was "not entirely optimistic" about bringing back Monroe, the team's first-round pick in 2010 who averaged 15.9 points and a career-best 10.2 rebounds last season.
"Stan had smaller teams in Orlando years ago," Monroe told the Baton Rouge (Louisiana) Advocate on Saturday. "[Andre Drummond] is like Dwight Howard. So Stan wants to put good players around him. The team has different plans and I respect that. I don't want to be anywhere I'm not wanted."
Monroe, 25, can test the open market as an unrestricted free agent after the free-agency period officially begins at 12:01 a.m. ET Wednesday. He told the Advocate that he plans to meet with four or five teams in free agency.
The Pistons traded for forward Ersan Ilyasova earlier this month in a move that appeared to give them a potential replacement for Monroe, and they drafted Stanley Johnson at the position as well.
The 6-foot-11 big man out of Georgetown has been linked with the Knicks often as a free-agent target for team president Phil Jackson because of Monroe's ability to score, rebound and pass, and his potential fit in the triangle offense.
Following his rookie season, Monroe has averaged no less than 15 points and 9.3 rebounds in each of his last four seasons.
Monroe signed a one-year qualifying offer last year to become an unrestricted free agent this summer. He was suspended for the first two games of this past season without pay for pleading guilty to impaired driving stemming from a February 2014 incident.
ESPN.com's Ohm Youngmisuk contributed to this report.