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Tim Reynolds  |  Associated Press Lake Buena Vista, Fla. — LeBron James woke up from his gameday nap Tuesday and decided it was time to send his Los Angeles Lakers teammates a message. He grabbed his phone and told the Lakers they were facing a must-win game. “I felt that vibe. I felt that pressure,”

Tim Reynolds  |  Associated Press Lake Buena Vista, Fla. —  Biggest moment of his career. Best game of his life. Jimmy Butler is clearly not ready to go home quite yet. With a triple-double, he joined NBA Finals lore — and the short-handed Miami Heat might have made this title matchup a series after all.

Tim Reynolds  |  Associated Press Lake Buena Vista, Fla. – For the Los Angeles Lakers, the mission is simple: Get two more wins and become NBA champions. For the Miami Heat, the mission may be even more simple: Get one win and make this a series. Game 3 of the NBA Finals is Sunday night,

Rod Beard   | The Detroit News Detroit — A nondescript SUV pulls into the parking lot at Detroit Thrive gym on Detroit’s east side and there’s some chatter as 19-year-old LaMelo Ball and his brothers, Lonzo and LiAngelo, head inside for a daily workout. There’s no entourage, no fans, no reality-show camera crew, no pomp

Rod Beard   | The Detroit News With the seventh pick in the NBA Draft, the Pistons will have their choice of some solid prospects. Their most glaring need looks to be depth at point guard, with an emphasis on finding a playmaker who can take the reins from Derrick Rose while adding some skill and star

Rod Beard   | The Detroit News Needless to say, LaMelo Ball has had an unusual few months of preparation leading up to the NBA draft. The pandemic has scuttled plans for most of the draft prospects, pushing the draft from June to November, with the potential to be delayed again if there are any more

Rod Beard   | The Detroit News Pistons general manager Troy Weaver is rounding out his staff with new appointments announced Monday. The Pistons added Britta Brown as the senior director of basketball administration and will manage day-to-day team operations and logistics. Brown previously was an assistant athletic director at Eastern Michigan University and played lacrosse

Nolan Bianchi   | The Detroit News By every stretch of Dwane Casey’s imagination, his team’s workouts during phase 2 of in-market minicamp, has been a rousing success. But the biggest positive for the Detroit Pistons head coach has been what he’s getting out of 24-year-old shooting guard Luke Kennard, who’s taking part in his first

Rod Beard   | The Detroit News After missing almost three months because of knee tendinitis, Luke Kennard was getting close to making his return to the court. The Pistons had played in Philadelphia and Kennard was starting to ramp up his individual work and preparing to get back to full team scrimmages. Then the pandemic

Rod Beard   | The Detroit News After missing almost three months because of knee tendinitis, Luke Kennard was getting close to making his return to the court. The Pistons had played in Philadelphia and Kennard was starting to ramp up his individual work and preparing to get back to full team scrimmages. Then the pandemic

Rod Beard The Detroit News Published 5:03 PM EDT Sep 23, 2020 There’s still plenty to be figured out before the next NBA season, but the NBA Draft and the process leading up to it are getting more clarity. The date of the draft, which already has been pushed back a couple of times because

Rod Beard The Detroit News Published 1:25 PM EDT Sep 18, 2020 In his second season, Bruce Brown made some strides from his uneven rookie campaign. Brown boosted his production to 8.9 points, 4.7 rebounds and 4 assists, as he was called upon to play a more versatile role, with injuries to Luke Kennard and

Rod Beard The Detroit News Published 3:16 PM EDT Sep 16, 2020 It’s not just the playoff teams that are in a basketball bubble. The eight teams who didn’t finish the regular season after the NBA season restarted in July are getting an opportunity to work in their home markets with their players, beginning this

Rod Beard The Detroit News Published 12:06 AM EDT Sep 10, 2020 Chauncey Billups may be ready to get his big shot. Billups, the Pistons icon who led the “Goin’ to Work” squad to the 2004 championship, is emerging as a candidate to become head coach of the Indiana Pacers, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.

Tony Paul The Detroit News Published 5:02 PM EDT Sep 2, 2020 Detroit — Detroit’s four major professional sports teams are teaming up to help residents get their vote on. The Ilitch-owned Tigers and Red Wings were the latest to join the venture Wednesday, announcing that Little Caesars Arena will be used as a training venue

Candice Williams The Detroit News Published 5:54 PM EDT Sep 2, 2020 Touted as the first program of its kind, the Detroit Pistons and Flagstar Bank announced Wednesday a ticket promotion that will allow fans to place deposits on 2020-21 season ticket packages and earn 5% annual percentage yield through Dec. 31.  Called the “Pistons IPO: Initial Pistons

By Mike Anthony Hartford Courant Published 2:31 PM EDT Sep 1, 2020 Clifford Robinson was prickly but joyful, aloof but driven, unpredictable but steady, and if ever there was a time when these little contradictions intersected it was June 27, 1989. New York City. NBA draft. Robinson, a front-row guest following a standout career at

Rod Beard The Detroit News Published 11:29 AM EDT Aug 29, 2020 In the early 2000s, before Rasheed Wallace was a versatile big man for the Pistons, there was Clifford Robinson. Anchored in the paint or roaming along the perimeter and searching for an open 3-point shot was unusual for a 6-foot-10 forward, but Robinson

Rod Beard The Detroit News Published 11:20 PM EDT Aug 26, 2020 Go through the gallery to see Rod Beard’s NBA mock draft 1.0 for 2020. Click here if you have trouble viewing the gallery. The NBA draft has been as impacted as anything else in the sport since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. College players didn’t get

Rod Beard The Detroit News Published 11:05 AM EDT Aug 24, 2020 Blake Griffin grew up watching his father, Tommy Griffin, coach basketball in Oklahoma. One of those teams was at John Marshall High School in Oklahoma City, including the team that won the 5A state championship in 1996. The Detroit Pistons star, just 7