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Rod Beard   | The Detroit News The preseason gave the Pistons two home games to open the schedule, so there was some comfort in playing at Little Caesars Arena in their first games since March. There was some advantage to that, in just getting acclimated to playing again, after the long layoff because of the

Associated Press James Harden was back in a Houston uniform. It’s still unclear how many more times that’ll happen. The three-time defending NBA scoring champion made his preseason debut with the Rockets on Tuesday night, after practicing only one time with his team following a late arrival to training camp amid incessant trade speculation. Harden

Rod Beard   | The Detroit News More than half of the players on the Pistons’ roster have four years or fewer of NBA experience. Only two, Blake Griffin and Derrick Rose, have been named All-Stars. Four rookies entered the picture this year and the roster was flipped almost completely with more new faces than they

Steve Megargee  |  Associated Press Milwaukee — Giannis Antetokounmpo has agreed to a supermax extension with the Milwaukee Bucks that takes the two-time reigning MVP off next summer’s free-agent market. “I’m blessed to be a part of the Milwaukee Bucks for the next 5 years,” Antetokounmpo posted Tuesday on his social media platforms. The Bucks announced later

Rod Beard   | The Detroit News The Pistons probably aren’t going to win the NBA championship this year. There. I said it. Truth be told, they’ll probably have to have a lot of things work their way just to make the playoffs this year. That’s not exactly a hot take, but it seems like some

Rod Beard   | The Detroit News Detroit — Less than a minute after he entered Sunday’s preseason game against the New York Knicks, Sekou Doumbouya was driving for a layup and giving the Pistons a much-needed boost on the offensive end. About two minutes later, he hit a 3-pointer. It was the start of one

Rod Beard   | The Detroit News Detroit — Less than a minute after he entered Sunday’s preseason game against the New York Knicks, Sekou Doumbouya was driving for a layup and giving the Pistons a much-needed boost on the offensive end. About two minutes later, he hit a 3-pointer. It was the start of one

Rod Beard   | The Detroit News The Pistons have started trimming their roster in preparation to start the regular season next week. After their second preseason game on Sunday, the Pistons waived wings Louis King, LiAngelo Ball and Anthony Lamb. Both King and Lamb made their preseason debut Sunday; Ball didn’t play in either exhibition

Rod Beard   | The Detroit News Detroit — The Pistons and Knicks matched up Sunday for the second time in three nights, finishing their preseason mini-series. The Knicks won the opener, 90-84, but the Pistons made some adjustments for the finale. Unlike the sloppy first game Friday, the Pistons were a bit sharper and raced

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Rod Beard   | The Detroit News It’s not very often in the NBA that a team plays the same opponent in back-to-back games. During the pandemic, it will become more of the norm, as the league looks to reduce travel by playing a two-game mini-series instead of splitting up the individual matchups. The preseason will

It’s not very often in the NBA that a team plays the same opponent in back-to-back games. During the pandemic, it will become more of the norm, as the league looks to reduce travel by playing a two-game mini-series instead of splitting up the individual matchups. The preseason will provide a sneak peek, as the

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Rod Beard   | The Detroit News Detroit — It’s the preseason, so the score didn’t really matter. Heck, in the midst of a pandemic, the score really didn’t matter at all. That there’s basketball to watch at all — not in a bubble — could be the headline by itself. The Pistons played their first

Curtis Pashelka  |  Mercury News Both Draymond Green (Michigan State) and James Wiseman are making small strides after recently testing positive for the coronavirus but neither will play in Saturday’s exhibition opener against the Denver Nuggets — or perhaps in any preseason game — Warriors coach Steve Kerr said. Kerr said Green, who returned to the

Rod Beard   | The Detroit News The Pistons open the preseason Friday night at Little Caesars Arena, their first competitive game in nine months because of the pandemic. The game against the Knicks begins at 7 p.m. As the NBA tries to get back to normal, there will be basketball, but there won’t be any

John Niyo   | The Detroit News The Pistons have tried this once before. Twice, actually, the way new general manager Troy Weaver sees it. And though he’s already apologizing for sounding “like a broken record” by repeatedly referencing the Pistons’ Bad Boys era and the “Goin’ to Work” group that won an NBA title in

Rod Beard   | The Detroit News Detroit basketball is back. After exactly nine months of hiatus, the Pistons will play for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the NBA season in March. Most of the league continued, but the Pistons were among the eight teams excluded from the restart in the Orlando

Craig Mauger   | The Detroit News Lansing — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed an executive order Thursday to create a bipartisan commission aimed at raising awareness about the soon-to-arrive COVID-19 vaccine. The governor announced the new Protect Michigan Commission during a Thursday afternoon press briefing, nine months into the state’s fight against a virus that’s

Rod Beard   | The Detroit News By the time the Pistons play their first preseason game on Friday, they all will not have been practicing together for a whole week. With the team portion of training camp starting on Sunday, it’s been a furious rush to get all the players on board with the specific