Shortly before tonight’s game tipped off, it was announced that the Cleveland Cavaliers would be without their dynamic backcourt of Donovan Mitchell and Darius Garland. The pair also missed a game against the Detroit Pistons earlier this season, back in November, and that wasn’t an issue then as Cleveland cruised to a 112-88 win at
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Mat Ishbia’s longtime dream of owning a professional sports team is officially a reality. The CEO of mortgage lender United Wholesale Mortgage was formally introduced as the new owner of the Phoenix Suns and Phoenix Mercury franchises on Wednesday, and he delivered a passionate, yet direct, message during his first press conference. Ishbia, 43, was
The Red Wings and Pistons sit at dangerous intersections, pretty much where they’ve sat for nearly a decade. And they can’t keep making the same turn toward uncertainty. Arguably the best player on each team is in quasi-limbo. Dylan Larkin, 26, is due to become an unrestricted free agent after the season. By most accounts,
The Detroit Pistons travel to Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse for a one-game road trip to play a Central Division rival — the Cleveland Cavaliers. The hometown Cavs enter the night boasting a dominant 3-game winning streak where they have throttled opponents by 15 points or more in each victory. For Detroit, it has been a tick
LeBron James has accomplished a milestone that many basketball historians believed would never be broken. Entering Tuesday’s game against the Oklahoma City Thunder, the four-time NBA champion needed 36 points to surpass Kareem Abdul-Jabaar as the NBA’s all-time leading scorer. Nearly every person inside Crypto.com Arena pulled their phones out and rose to their feet
Detroit — Henry Ford Health is scheduled to host a press conference Wednesday morning with the Detroit Pistons, its owner Tom Gores and Michigan State University to share what they call “a transformational vision to revolutionize the delivery of healthcare and create unique opportunities to live, work and play.” The health system plans to build
Several United Wholesale Mortgage employees spoke highly of their chairman, president and CEO – new Phoenix Suns majority owner Mat Ishbia. BROOKLYN – Mateen Cleaves is beyond certain his forever friend and 2000 Michigan State national championship teammate, Mat Ishbia, can deliver Phoenix its first NBA title as its new majority owner. “His passion to
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After struggling to hit shots for more than a month, Killian Hayes finally found his touch on Monday. The third-year guard opened the third quarter with a 3-pointer, and proceeded to hit two more in the midst of a 19-7 Detroit Pistons run that cut an 18-point deficit to six. They eventually lost to the
June 26, 2003, was a night expected to bring glory for two midwestern NBA franchises. Picking No. 1 overall, the Cleveland Cavaliers selected Akron teen LeBron James. Picking No. 2, the Detroit Pistons took Serbian teen Darko Milicic. Surely, draft experts said, the duo would lead their new franchises in battling for Central Division superiority
The Phoenix Suns appeared to be doubling down on welcoming in some Motown flavor, but the team has allegedly denied a Tuesday night report that Detroit Pistons legend Isiah Thomas will be joining the team’s front office. One day after it was announced that Mat Isbia, former Michigan State basketball walk-on and CEO of United
The NBA approved the bid led by Mat Ishbia, CEO of mortgage lender United Wholesale Mortgage, to purchase the Phoenix Suns, the league announced Monday night, but there was one vote of support notably absent. A vote by the NBA’s Board of Governors approved the sale, 29-0, with the Cleveland Cavaliers — owned by Ishbia’s
Detroit — Technically speaking, Saddiq Bey already has been traded once in his young NBA career. That’s how he ended up here, in fact, on the ground floor of Troy Weaver’s “restoration” effort in Detroit back in November 2020. Bey joined the Pistons as one of the final pieces of that byzantine, three-team trade that
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