Jaden Ivey just completed perhaps his best week as an NBA basketball player. In his past four games, Detroit’s fifth overall pick has averaged 23.3 points on 43/41/91 shooting splits and distributed 7.5 assists for good measure. Following the early season injury to Cade Cunningham, Ivey was begrudgingly thrust into a starting point guard role
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Post-All-Star break means it is officially the 2023 NBA Draft season for the Detroit Pistons and for Pistons fans. In that spirit, Detroit Bad Boys is sharing weekly articles and prospect breakdowns from our own Bryce Simon, who is analyzing prospects for Sports Illustrated’s Draft Digest. This week, Bryce explores potential No. 2 overall pick,
OKLAHOMA CITY — The Detroit Pistons enjoyed their best shooting night in more than a month. The ball moved freely, and the fourth quarter featured a slew of clutch 3-pointers that allowed them to keep pace with an upstart Oklahoma City Thunder team in the thick of the Western Conference play-in race without Shai Gilgeous-Alexander,
The Detroit Pistons have been a bad team for every month of this interminable, mostly miserable season. However, when the team decided to shut down veterans like Bojan Bogdanovic and Alec Burks, the losing really went into overdrive. The Pistons have precisely one win in its past 19 games. For those who want to reminisce
Thunder guard Jalen Williams has a lot of hair, and it was sopping wet after his teammates doused him with water after a game-winning tip-in. The consequence of being the hero. “It’s so wild already,” Williams said of his hair … “I’m not really gonna complain about the moment that happened to be able to
We hear from coach Dwane Casey after his Pistons lose a heartbreaker in Oklahoma City on Wednesday, 107-106. #DetroitBasketball
We hear from Eugene Omoruyi after he posts 14 points and 5 rebounds off the Pistons bench Wednesday. #DetroitBasketball
There’s something about the Detroit Pistons and Oklahoma City Thunder late in the season. It’s always fun. Sure, most times it’s fun because it’s two downtrodden teams muddying it up as they endure yet another year of rebuilding, but it’s fun! Tonight was no different as the Pistons traveled to take on the Thunder in
The Pistons were a completely different team when they last met the Oklahoma City Thunder in November. Most of the roster was healthy and available, including Cade Cunningham, Bojan Bogdanovic, Isaiah Stewart and Hamidou Diallo. Saddiq Bey was also a member of the Pistons the last time Detroit and Oklahoma City played against each other.
Two days after scoring a career-best 32 points, Jaden Ivey stayed hot on Wednesday night. He hit his fifth 3-pointer of the night with 3:35 remaining to tie it at 100, giving the Detroit Pistons a chance to leave Oklahoma with a victory. However, he picked up his sixth foul and exited the game with
Our Natalie highlights the Pistons’ Brittni Donaldson, an assistant coach and director of coaching analytics, and we hear from Brittni on what her role entails and why it’s so fulfilling for her.
As the clock struck zero Monday night, a dejected Jaden Ivey stood underneath his own basket, bent over in frustration as his team fell to potential future NBA champions the Milwaukee Bucks. In the aftermath of the loss, the Detroit Pistons’ talented rookie was intent on highlighting both the team and his own attention to
Pistons general manager Troy Weaver orchestrated one of the most productive NBA drafts in the team’s recent history last summer by adding lottery picks Jaden Ivey and Jalen Duren to his young roster. Both players were perhaps the most athletic players in a draft that included No. 1 overall pick Paolo Banchero, Chet Holmgren, Jabari
To say the Thunder’s rebuild has gone better than the Pistons so far would be an understatement. The Pistons are capping off another bottom 5 finish while the Thunder find themselves in the thick of the Western Conference playoff race. Granted, the Thunder did have more assets to trade to start their rebuild, but the