In the morning, the Detroit Pistons fired Flip Saunders. By the afternoon, the players were put on notice.

“I’m not going to sit here and make Flip the scapegoat,” president of basketball operations Joe Dumars said Tuesday. “Everybody is in play.”

Dumars publicly put his entire lineup on the trading block, less than a week after the Pistons lost in the Eastern Conference finals for the third straight year.

Among those available: four players who have been together since winning the 2004 NBA title together, plus another starter who just finished his fourth season with the team.

“There are no sacred cows here,” Dumars said. “You lose that sacred-cow status when you lose three straight years.”