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Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the NBA. Each week, we send out questions to the most plugged-in Detroit Pistons fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to join Reacts. One thing was made abundantly clear by the latest SB Nation Reacts survey, the Phoenix Suns have become America’s

I think the Detroit Pistons trading down from the No. 1 is dumb. I also trust Troy Weaver implicitly. So when the Pistons GM says he’s turning over stones and gonna do his own research on the class of guys at the top of the 2021 NBA Draft, I both believe him and gotta game

First Big Ben netted us the No. 1 overall pick in the 2021 Draft Lottery on Tuesday, now Mr. Big Shot is making a huge step in his coaching career – the Goin’ to Work Crew is making news around the NBA once again. As reported by Shams Charania of The Athletic, Chauncey Billups was

No, we don’t know officially what Troy Weaver will do with the No. 1 pick in the NBA Draft. He’s got a sharp eye for developing talent, doesn’t subscribe to group think and is never afraid to be bold. When Weaver said “my clip will be empty,” it wasn’t because he had just executed a

Ever since the Detroit Pistons won the NBA Draft Lottery there has excitement, sure, but it already seems to be getting drowned out by worry, consternation, frustration, paranoia. Every non-Detroit Pistons fan is coming up with some truly wild reasons why Troy Weaver should trade the pick, why he doesn’t really want the pick, why

It didn’t take long after the Detroit Pistons secured the No. 1 pick in the NBA Draft for national pundits and large chunks of the fan base to try and get rid of it. After spending a year begging for the Detroit Pistons to rebuild the right away (aka tank), and seeing it work to

Jerami Grant went from third banana on the Western Conference finals Denver Nuggets to turning heads as the leading scorer on a rebuilding Detroit Pistons team to a potential Olympic gold medalist all in the span of a year. Grant has committed to Team USA for the summer Olympics in Tokyo, which begins roughly one

One of the more common responses I got on Twitter after the Detroit Pistons won the NBA Draft Lottery — other than a series of excited expletives — was questions about Cade and requests to provide a little bit of additional info on the potential No. 1 overall pick. I get it. We are all

On lottery night, the Detroit Pistons were rewarded for the effort and fight they put in every night last season with the #1 overall pick in the 2021 NBA Draft. In all likelihood, they will take Cade Cunningham, the star guard/forward out of Oklahoma State. THIS IS A BIG DEAL Y’ALL. DETROIT IS GONNA BE

While Detroit Pistons fans around the world lost their collective minds at the realization that the Pistons had finally, after a 51-year drought, secured the first overall pick in the NBA Draft, Ben Wallace was made for the moment — calm, collected, a wry smile on his face. When Wallace saw the Houston Rockets’ logo

The Detroit Pistons won the NBA Draft Lottery, vaulting for the first time in history up the draft order. They came into the night with the second-worst record in the NBA and had the best odds to land No. 1 at just 14% with three other teams. The Pistons restored/rebuilt/tanked and now have an opportunity

The Detroit Pistons have the second-worst record in the NBA, but enter tonight’s NBA Draft Lottery with a better chance of picking fifth than of picking (27.8%) than of picking in the top 2 (27.4%). Still, the Pistons are guaranteed to pick no lower than sixth, and even that spot, while disappointing for fans hoping

No matter what you say, I remain skeptical about the Detroit Pistons chances to advance in the lottery to grab the first overall selection. In 35 previous seasons since the lottery began, Motown participated 13 times and has never moved up. The no. 2 pick in 2003 NBA Draft indeed moved up from the sixth

The NBA Draft Lottery is almost here. The most consequential date the Detroit Pistons and its fans have faced in years. The Pistons are mainstays in the lottery, don’t get me wrong. But rarely do the Pistons have even halfway decent odds of grabbing a third pick. With the second-worst record in the NBA, the

How time flies. It seems like yesterday the playoffs started, and now we’re already winding down to the conference finals. But it’s not only time that is turning quickly, as the favorites in each series have flipped based on the latest injury news (we don’t like injuries). This is especially true out West. Phoenix Suns

Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the NBA. Each week, we send out questions to the most plugged-in Detroit Pistons fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to join Reacts. As the playoffs inch closer the the NBA Finals, fans of teams around the leagues are picking sides and

One year ago, Troy Weaver was hired away from the Oklahoma City Thunder to lead a complete rebuild of the Detroit Pistons. In his introductory comments, Weaver was careful not to use the term rebuild, but actions, as they say, speak louder than words. And there have been plenty of actions in the past 365

Saddiq Bey was named to the All-Rookie first team and Isaiah Stewart to the second team, the NBA announced Thursday. It was the first time two Pistons made the team since Andre Drummond and Kyle Singler were both second-team selections in 2013. Bey is the first Pistons rookie to receive first-team honors since Brandon Knight

Troy Weaver, Dwane Casey, and certainly the marketing department of the Detroit Pistons have referenced the “core four.” That would be last year’s draft picks — Killian Hayes, Saddiq Bey, Isaiah Stewart, and Saben Lee. Each showed at points this season why Weaver selected them, and how they could be a piece of the future.

Ok, I was the one who was whining about not having a team to root for to win it all this postseason. Yet, there are some interesting developments even a Pistons fan stubbornly refusing to cheer on any other team has to notice. 1. Injuries have dominated the storyline this postseason The results of at