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Rod Beard   | The Detroit News The Pistons ended up getting one of the Ball brothers — just not the one that people thought. As they round out their roster for the start of training camp, the Pistons are adding LiAngelo Ball on an Exhibit-10 contract, a league source told The Detroit News on Tuesday.

Rod Beard   | The Detroit News Just like that, the Pistons are back in training camp. After almost nine months without playing a competitive game, the Pistons are rounding back into form by starting mandatory COVID testing and doing one-on-one individual workouts with a player and a coach this week. With all the new additions

Rod Beard   | The Detroit News Coming off an All-NBA season in 2018-19, Blake Griffin had high expectations at the start of last season. Even though he was recovering from knee surgery, he entered training camp optimistic he’d be able to build on one of the best seasons of his career. After experiencing some knee

Rod Beard   | The Detroit News The Pistons keep adding to the roster ahead of the start of training camp this week. Deividas Sirvydis, their second-round pick from 2019, signed a three-year deal Tuesday with the team, a league source confirmed to The Detroit News. The source requested anonymity because the deal has not been announced

Associated Press  |  The Detroit News Sydney – Andrew Bogut is retiring after 15 years in professional basketball, with injuries, age and the COVID-19 pandemic ending his bid for one last shot at an Olympic medal. The 36-year-old Australian had initially targeted a retirement date after the 2020 Olympics, but the postponement of the Tokyo

Rod Beard   | The Detroit News The Pistons have been busy in the offseason in dismantling and reassembling their roster. They put together the core in one day, signing their four draft picks this season to their rookie deals. The Pistons announced Monday evening that they had signed their three first-round picks, guard Killian Hayes

Rod Beard   | The Detroit News It hasn’t even been two months since the end of last season and things are already gearing up for the 2020-21 season. Training camps begin this week, with preseason games next week and the regular season soon thereafter. The Pistons haven’t played a game since March 11 and besides

Rod Beard   | The Detroit News The Pistons are getting into the online sports-betting game. The team announced Monday multi-year agreements to make both DraftKings and FanDuel the official sports-betting partners. The agreements will allow each sports-betting giant to use the Pistons’ logos in their marketing and the Pistons will promote both companies in Little

Rod Beard   | The Detroit News The Detroit Pistons will get back on the court exactly nine months after their last game. The NBA announced its preseason schedule Friday, with each team playing between two and four preseason games. The Pistons open with a two-game home slate against the New York Knicks on Dec. 11

Rod Beard   | The Detroit News The Pistons started draft day with one pick, but by the end of the first round, they ended up with three, with a series of trades that was just one piece of their dramatic roster reshaping. In their draft preparation, the Pistons saw several players they thought would be good

The Pistons entered the NBA Draft with the No. 7 pick, and general manager Troy Weaver and his staff completed their draft board and identified their top targets. Near the top of the board was guard Killian Hayes, and even though some of the picks directly before the Pistons went a little differently than many

Rod Beard   | The Detroit News There’s another one. The Pistons have been the most active NBA team in the past week in upgrading their roster through the draft, trades and free agency. They added another veteran Tuesday, agree to a deal with guard Wayne Ellington, a league source told The Detroit News. Ellington, who

Rod Beard   | The Detroit News In the first few hours of NBA free agency, one of the teams most active in getting deals done was the Pistons, making agreements with Mason Plumlee, Jahlil Okafor and Josh Jackson in short order. The big deal of the night was made not much later, with the Pistons

Janie McCauley  |  Associated Press San Francisco — Guard Kelly Oubre is joining the Golden State Warriors to give the team backcourt depth in the wake of Klay Thompson’s latest injury, with Oubre acquired Sunday in a trade from the Oklahoma City Thunder. The Warriors will send a conditional 2021 first-round draft pick and a

Rod Beard   | The Detroit News The Pistons couldn’t have five centers for too long. After stocking their roster during the draft and the early stages of free agency with big men, the Pistons unloaded one, sending Tony Bradley to the Philadelphia 76ers for guard Zhaire Smith, a source told The Detroit News. The source

Rod Beard   | The Detroit News In the board game Monopoly, there are many strategies to try to win. One popular tactic is for players to buy every property they land on during the first couple of trips around the board. Given that there are a finite number of properties available, the sound strategy is

Tim Reynolds  |  Associated Press Fred VanVleet bet on himself. It paid off. Gordon Hayward, meanwhile, is heading to a new home. VanVleet agreed Saturday to a four-year, $85 million contract to remain with the Toronto Raptors, a person with direct knowledge of the discussions told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the

Rod Beard   | The Detroit News In the board game Monopoly, there are many strategies to try to win. One popular tactic is for players to buy every property they land on during the first couple of trips around the board. Given that there are a finite number of properties available, the sound strategy is

Tim Reynolds  |  Associated Press Fred VanVleet bet on himself. It paid off. Gordon Hayward, meanwhile, is heading to a new home. VanVleet agreed Saturday to a four-year, $85 million contract to remain with the Toronto Raptors, a person with direct knowledge of the discussions told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the

Tim Reynolds  |  Associated Press Fred VanVleet bet on himself. It paid off. Gordon Hayward, meanwhile, is heading to a new home. VanVleet agreed Saturday to a four-year, $85 million contract to remain with the Toronto Raptors, a person with direct knowledge of the discussions told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the