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The NBA Draft is generally unpredictable, and up to the last minute, the top of the draft seemed to be known, with Jabari Smith, Chet Holmgren and Paolo Banchero as the top three picks. In some way, shape or form. Things didn’t exactly go to form, and with the Pistons sitting at the No. 5

The Detroit Pistons entered Thursday’s NBA Draft with the No. 5 pick in the first round. They appear to have come away with much more before the second round even started. At No. 5, the Pistons selected Purdue guard Jaden Ivey, then reportedly swung a trade that gave them Jalen Duren, a center out of

The Detroit Pistons went international for their second-round pick in Thursday night’s NBA Draft from the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, selecting Italian wing Gabriele Procida with pick No. 36. Detroit acquired the 36th pick in Wednesday’s trade with the Portland Trail Blazers for Jerami Grant. Procida, who turned 20 on June 1, is touted as one

Washington — Michigan Democrats pitched national party leaders on the state’s diversity and swing state status Thursday in an effort to be one of the first to have a presidential primary election in 2024.  Michigan is one of 16 states and Puerto Rico asking the Democratic Party to make them one of the five states voting before Super Tuesday, which are showered with campaign

The 2022 NBA Draft is Thursday night at Barclays Center in New York (8 p.m., ESPN), and the Pistons have the No. 5 overall pick in the first round. They’re in  be in position to add another significant piece in their rebuild, after a disappointing 23-59 season put them back in the draft lottery. The Orlando

Call him Trader Troy or the Dream Weaver or any one of those creative nicknames that those in social media routinely come up with. Pistons general manager Troy Weaver isn’t one for standing pat with a roster, especially when he sees an opportunity to improve it. The Pistons, coming off a miserable 23-59 season, have

Jaden Hardy, a Detroit native and former five-star basketball prospect, is projected to be a first-round pick in Thursday night’s NBA Draft. He’s had an atypical road in getting there, though. Hardy, a 6-foot-4 guard, had offers from several elite college programs by the time he was a senior in 2021. From Michigan to Kentucky

The Detroit Pistons on Wednesday night traded Jerami Grant to the Portland Trail Blazers for a 2025 first-round draft pick and additional second-round picks, a league source confirmed to The Detroit News. The Pistons also acquired the Blazers’ second-round pick (No. 36 overall) Thursday, as well as second-round picks in 2025 and 2026. The trade

There is strength in numbers. But there’s also chaos, which is why Thursday’s NBA draft offers so much intrigue. Six teams own multiple first-round picks, Houston and San Antonio — each has three — and Oklahoma City has stockpiled a whopping 19 first-rounders over the next seven years. So a night that already promised some surprises should

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With the NBA Draft approaching on Thursday, the Pistons are in an interesting spot. They have the No. 5 pick, just behind the Sacramento Kings, who pick fourth following the Orlando Magic (No. 1), Oklahoma City Thunder (No. 2) and Houston Rockets (No. 3). General manager Troy Weaver didn’t drop any hints about which way the Pistons

Detroit — Troy Weaver’s not begging for mercy. He insists he’s far from helpless. But with less than 72 hours remaining before the NBA Draft, the Pistons’ general manager will admit this much: Some things are out of his control. That’s why he can’t tell you which player he’ll be selecting in the top half

Throughout the course of any league’s draft evaluation process, “upside” is generally a large part of the conversation. It’s a loaded term, typically carrying myriad applications — most of which Detroit Pistons general manager Troy Weaver doesn’t agree with. “To me, upside is a growth mindset,” Weaver said Monday while talking to reporters ahead of Thursday’s

If the Detroit Pistons are targeting Jaden Ivey in Thursday’s NBA Draft, they might have been happy to hear that other teams haven’t done as much homework as they have. Ivey told reporters Monday the Pistons are just one of two teams to hold a private workout for the draft-eligible Purdue guard, along with the

Bally Sports Detroit is launching a direct-to-consumer streaming service that will give Detroit sports fans access to Tigers, Red Wings and Pistons game broadcasts without needing a cable subscription. The service, Bally Sports+, will launch Thursday, and will mirror the content available on the linear service. The cost will be $19.99 a month; fans who

By Tim Reynolds |  Associated Press The goal was enormous: Return to the NBA’s mountaintop. And now with that monumental task complete, the NBA champion Golden State Warriors already have a new target: staying up there for a while. The victory cigars hadn’t been extinguished after the title-clinching win in Boston, the last celebratory bottles of

Projected NBA lottery pick Shaedon Sharpe is a self-admitted man of mystery. After going from unranked to the No. 1 recruit for the 2022 high school class in a matter of months, Sharpe then reclassified and entered Kentucky this season before ultimately deciding to not play. Against all odds, it’s possible that he goes as

Detroit — Chris Webber, arguably the second-best basketball player to come from Michigan, will headline a star-studded class for the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame. Webber, who starred at Detroit Country Day and led Michigan’s fabled Fab Five before going on to a Hall-of-Fame professional career, is one of eight inductees for the Class of 2022.

It’s all guesswork at this point. The Pistons, who have the No. 5 pick in the NBA Draft on June 23, aren’t sitting pretty like they were last season, when they had the top pick. They pondered over the top options before eventually selecting Cade Cunningham. This year, they’ll have to wait for the teams

By Dan Woike, Broderick Turner |  Los Angeles Times Los Angeles — The job, as much as it is anything else, requires a coach to stand next to LeBron James, a player who has been one of basketball’s most famous since he was in high school, and forge a partnership. So, naturally, the Lakers went and hired Darvin