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Rod Beard   | The Detroit News Detroit — That background noise at Pistons games won’t just be recorded cheering and booing. For the first time since the pandemic began last March, the Pistons will begin selling general-admission tickets to home games at Little Caesars Arena. The first game available will be Wednesday, March 17 against

Tim Reynolds  |  Associated Press Golden State’s Stephen Curry and Phoenix’s Devin Booker have been 3-point champions at All-Star weekend before, and they’ll try to win that trophy again Sunday. The NBA revealed the 15 players Tuesday who will be taking part in the other on-court events besides the All-Star Game in Atlanta, with the

Rod Beard   | The Detroit News Call it a slow start. Or maybe a sophomore slump. Whatever it is that’s going on with Pistons forward Sekou Doumbouya, it’s vexing to try to figure out in his second season. There were some flashes last season, when he had an exceptional week against some of the best

Rod Beard   | The Detroit News The Detroit Pistons are continuing their commitment to making their Midtown Detroit practice facility part of the community. The team announced Tuesday that it is partnering with Planet Fitness to open a publicly accessible fitness center in the team’s Henry Ford Detroit Pistons Performance Center. The new fitness center

Charles Odum  |  Associated Press Atlanta — Atlanta Hawks coach Lloyd Pierce was fired on Monday, given the hook less than halfway into a season which carried heightened expectations before being hampered by injuries. Hawks president Travis Schlenk announced the move in a short statement released by the team. The Hawks are 14-20 and 11th

Rod Beard   | The Detroit News It’s not quite an early vacation, but the Pistons had another game on their schedule postponed because of health and safety protocols. Tuesday’s matchup against the Toronto Raptors — who are playing their home games in Tampa this season during the pandemic — was postponed because of ongoing contact

Rod Beard   | The Detroit News It’s not quite an early vacation, but the Pistons could have another game on their schedule postponed because of health and safety protocols. Tuesday’s matchup against the Toronto Raptors — who are playing their home games in Tampa this season during the pandemic — could be postponed because of contact

Rod Beard   | The Detroit News Detroit —  After a string of relatively close losses, the Pistons may have been due to have a stinker of a game. They lost to the Kings by three and the Pelicans by 10, along with a defeat to the Magic by nine and the Grizzlies by 14. For

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Rod Beard   | The Detroit News Detroit — With the production that the Pistons have gotten in the past week from Dennis Smith Jr. and Saben Lee, it’s eased some of the anxiety about playing without Delon Wright, who suffered a groin injury and could be out another week, at least. That’s compounded by the

Glynn A. Hill  |  Washington Post Zlatan Ibrahimovic felt wronged. The Swedish striker starred for Manchester United in 2018 when he said he was unduly attacked by his home country’s sports media because he lacked a traditional Swedish last name. He spoke out about the perceived injustice to French media and blamed “undercover racism.” Three

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Rod Beard   | The Detroit News Detroit — Dennis Smith Jr. made his mark on the game — and it wasn’t just with his highlight-reel dunk. Smith scored seven straight Pistons points late in the third quarter and had a 3-pointer midway through the fourth quarter to regain the lead. That provided a lift for

Rod Beard   | The Detroit News The Pistons had played well at home, winning four of their previous five games at Little Caesars Arena, but against the Kings, who had lost nine straight overall, they couldn’t find the formula to keep their streak going. In the first few minutes, the Pistons fell into an early

Rod Beard | The Detroit News When looking at the Pistons’ lineup needs, the easy thing in bringing in Josh Jackson would have been to put him in the starting lineup. Early in the season, that was the first plan of action. After Jackson came off the bench for the first two games, he moved into

When Pistons general manager Troy Weaver made a flurry of trades to get two additional picks in the first round and a second-round pick, he had a clear plan of how the rebuild was going to go. He called the selections — Killian Hayes, Isaiah Stewart, Saddiq Bey and Saben Lee — the “Core Four,”

Rod Beard | The Detroit News The Pistons finished their five-game road trip with just one win, including Wednesday’s 128-118 loss to the New Orleans Pelicans, when they ran out of gas in the fourth quarter. Playing without Jerami Grant, who sat out to rest, they had a challenge to fill that scoring void. They found

Rod Beard | The Detroit News After a gutsy bounce-back performance against the Orlando Magic on Tuesday night, expecting the Pistons to still have some juice left on the second night of a back-to-back was a little wishful thinking. Actually, they did. But only for three quarters. The Pistons hung in for most of the game,

Rod Beard | The Detroit News In the span of a couple of days, the Pistons went from having question marks at backup point guard to getting some very positive signs about their future at the position. That’s how quickly things can move in the NBA. After Delon Wright’s groin injury was announced, they looked to

Rod Beard | The Detroit News The Pistons almost have made it through the first half of their schedule during the pandemic. Now they know most of the second half of the schedule as well. The NBA released the remainder of the league schedule Wednesday, including games from the first half that were postponed because of