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A win streak is a win streak, even if it comes against the team struggling most in the league With the way the season has gone, the Pistons will take consecutive wins wherever they can get them. They followed up Wednesday’s solid win over the Toronto Raptors with a 113-100 road win over the Houston

With the NBA trade deadline approaching on Thursday, the Pistons wouldn’t seem to be a huge player in the midseason swap meet. After all, the Pistons have reshaped their roster, with only Sekou Doumbouya remaining from last season’s roster. Anyone who’s been paying attention should know better. With Troy Weaver at the helm, the Pistons

Detroit — The NBA tends to covet certain types of players. The fastest and the flashiest. The prospects who jump out of the gym and off the highlight reel and capture the imagination. It’s the same mentality that favors the hare’s speed and swagger in the fabled race against the trudging tortoise. Pistons rookie Saben

Come month’s end, FSD will be MIA. Fox Sports Detroit will officially be rebranded as Bally Sports Detroit on March 31, the final step in Disney’s sell-off of 19 regional sports networks after acquiring them from Fox in March 2019. The U.S. Justice Department ordered the regional sports networks to be sold, to avoid monopoly

Detroit — Maybe Pistons coach Dwane Casey has the Raptors figured out. The Pistons haven’t had a lot of wins this season, but two of their most impressive ones have come against Casey’s former team. After notching an impressive 24-point win against the Raptors on March 3, the Pistons followed it up with a good

The Pistons ended a four-game losing streak Wednesday with an impressive 116-112 win over the Toronto (Tampa?) Raptors at Little Caesars Arena. Detroit was able to keep it close late and pulled away in the final minutes and improve to 2-0 over the Raptors this season. There were a lot of things to like out

Rob Murphy is out as Eastern Michigan men’s basketball coach after 10 season, but he wasn’t out of work for long. The university made the announcement Wednesday, one day after Murphy and athletic director Scott Wetherbee met to discuss the coach’s future. In the same news release, Murphy announced his new job as president and general

Detroit — Pistons rookie Killian Hayes is nearing a return to the court this season. After sustaining a torn labrum in his right hip early in the season, Hayes was only able to play in the first seven games of the season before beginning rehabilitation. That process has gone well, and the 19-year-old is ramping

One year ago, the sports world stopped. We thought it’d be a minute. It would seem like forever. Only now are things, sort of, getting back to normal. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s latest state order allows up to 750 fans at Detroit Pistons and Detroit Red Wings home games, and up to 1,000 once the Detroit Tigers start

Detroit — Pistons rookie Killian Hayes is nearing a return to the court this season. After sustaining a torn labrum in his right hip early in the season, Hayes was only able to play in the first seven games of the season before beginning rehabilitation. That process has gone well, and the 19-year-old is ramping

Detroit — Pistons rookie Killian Hayes is nearing a return to the court this season. After sustaining a torn labrum in his right hip early in the season, Hayes was only able to play in the first seven games of the season before beginning rehabilitation. That process has gone well and the 19-year-old looks like

The Pistons seemed to have an advantage Monday night, with the San Antonio Spurs on the second night of a back-to-back. The Pistons were rested, having not played since Saturday. The Spurs didn’t show any signs of being tired or being any worse for the wear after their loss in Philadelphia on Sunday. In fact,

The Pistons are bolstering their frontcourt, at least for the short term. The team is signing big man Tyler Cook to a 10-day contract, a league source told The Detroit News on Monday. Cook, 23, is a 6-foot-8, 255-pound post player who will add some size to the roster that has been shorthanded because of

Rod Beard | The Detroit News In 2008, then-Pistons general manager Joe Dumars made the notable declaration about his championship-level roster and the outlook for improving the roster, even in the midst of making six straight Eastern Conference finals. “There are no sacred cows here,” Dumars said famously. Troy Weaver, who has been the Pistons general

Rod Beard | The Detroit News The Detroit Pistons continue to play well against some of the top teams in the league. They’re just not going to end up winning every time. Even when they don’t win, it’s worth watching. Against the Brooklyn Nets, whom the Pistons already beat this season, they had another gritty effort,

Rod Beard | The Detroit News The Detroit Pistons continue to play well against some of the top teams in the league. They’re just not going to end up winning every time. Even when they don’t win, it’s worth watching. Against the Brooklyn Nets, whom the Pistons already beat this season, they had another gritty effort,

Rod Beard   | The Detroit News Detroit — It seemed like a very normal Saturday night. The Pistons were facing the Utah Jazz at Little Caesars Arena with an announced crowd of 16,590 watching a third-quarter comeback fall short. After the loss, the Pistons were heading out for three games on the road in the

Rod Beard   | The Detroit News When Pistons general manager Troy Weaver spoke about a rebuild or a restoring to the roster, he was serious. In his first season on the job, he’s had an aggressive timeline in looking at how to reshape the roster. Just one player remains from last season’s roster: Sekou Doumbouya,

Rod Beard   | The Detroit News The Pistons won’t have to worry about facing Blake Griffin on his new team — at least not yet. He has been ruled out for Saturday’s Pistons-Brooklyn Nets game. Griffin, who agreed to a contract buyout from the Pistons last week, signed with the Nets for the remainder of

Rod Beard | The Detroit News For much of the middle two quarters, the Pistons looked like they were going to be blown out in their return from the All-Star break. They turned things around in the fourth quarter, when the Pistons cut down on the turnovers and the shots started to fall. That was enough