Detroit Pistons

Killian Hayes turned 20 last week and Cade Cunningham will join him in two months. Between them, they have 26 games of NBA experience. And yet as the roster stands today, they’re clearly the two players on the Pistons roster who’d have the ball in their hands most.

DETROIT – The Detroit Pistons announced today that the team waived guard Cory Joseph, forward Tyler Cook and guard/forward Deividas Sirvydis.  Joseph, 6-3, 200, was acquired by the Pistons, along with draft consideration, from the Sacramento Kings on March 25, 2021 in exchange for guard Delon Wright.  In 19 games (11 starts) as a Piston…

It was time for a party Thursday evening and Little Caesars Arena was the perfect place to celebrate. Detroit Pistons fans walked the concourse about an hour before the start of the NBA Draft and they were in a festive mood, fully expecting the Pistons would use the No. 1 pick on Oklahoma State star…

Under the category of “time flies,” this summer marks 10 years since Tom Gores purchased the Pistons franchise. There have been a few twists and turns in the ensuing decade, but the self-made native son of Michigan arose Friday morning feeling more enthusiastically optimistic about the future – of the basketball team, of the franchise…

DETROIT – The Detroit Pistons announced tonight that the club has selected Cade Cunningham with the first overall pick in the 2021 NBA Draft, along with Isaiah Livers and Luka Garza in the second round.

DETROIT – The Detroit Pistons announced today that the team has agreed in principle to acquire the draft rights to Balsa Koprivica from the Charlotte Hornets and trade the draft rights of JT Thor as part of a larger deal that is expected to be finalized after the moratorium ends on August 6.

The Pistons didn’t have to travel far to scout their first pick of the NBA draft’s second round, Michigan’s Isaiah Livers. Livers, a Kalamazoo native and Michigan’s 2017 Mr. Basketball, was taken with the 42nd overall pick – the first of three second-round picks the Pistons carried into the draft.

The Pistons waited 51 years between No. 1 picks. Cade Cunningham hopes to make it worth the wait. After having 37 days since winning the NBA draft lottery on June 22 to explore every option, Pistons general manager Troy Weaver settled on the Oklahoma State freshman over every other player in a star-studded draft and…

Just as the Pistons spent the past month learning everything they could about Cade Cunningham, so did the player tabbed nearly universally as the rightful No. 1 pick spend time since the June 22 lottery envisioning himself tugging on a Pistons jersey.

The overwhelming external focus of Pistons draft night will be directed on how they put to use the good fortune of winning the lottery and applying the No. 1 pick. But once the hay is in the barn on that extraordinarily consequential decision for Troy Weaver, the Pistons general manager can turn his attention for…

As the clock moves from days to hours for Thursday’s NBA draft, that – and how the Pistons will use their precious No. 1 pick – dominates the board for this week’s edition of Pistons Mailbag.

It’s entirely possible Troy Weaver isn’t aware of every wacky trade rumor perpetuated over the last month – he’s been otherwise preoccupied, you should know – but of the ones that have come to his attention, here’s his assessment: “It’s all bunk.”

Part of being the No. 1 pick is developing the confidence to make it beyond your belief that anyone else deserves to be the No. 1 pick. “I wanted to meet with the team that had the number one pick because I feel like I’m the number one pick,” Cade Cunningham said after coming to…

The NBA off-season is basically the time between the end of the NBA Finals and the draft. This year, that amounts to nine days. The 2020-21 season ended with the Milwaukee Bucks basking in the limelight. The 2021-22 season opens with the Pistons standing squarely in the spotlight.

Winning an NBA title is tremendously difficult. Winning an NBA title takes a run of good fortune … and a corresponding run of avoiding bad breaks. You want the lesson of the Milwaukee Bucks run to the 2021 NBA championship and how it applies to their division rivals and neighbors across Lake Michigan, the Pistons,…

The Pistons began the NBA’s 2020-21 business year with zero second-round picks and emerged from it with three. The likelihood of them actually exercising all three of them a week from tonight when the NBA draft goes down? Probably somewhere around the NBA’s collective 3-point percentage, 36.7 percent. Maybe lower than that.

We’re a week from the draft and that has Pistons Twitter abuzz for this week’s edition. Michael Shallvey (@shallvey): With the Pistons current involvement in USA Basketball, all I’m hearing is how they can recruit top talent to Detroit. Isn’t there an exactly equal chance Pistons can get recruited away from Detroit?

What are the odds the Pistons trade the No. 1 pick in next week’s draft? About 8 percent, history tells us. That’s less than the 14 percent chance they had to land that pick in the first place, but not exactly like your chances of being struck by lightning.

The Pistons won’t be major players in free agency this summer – next summer, different story – and that works out pretty well for them. Not a great free-agent class plus not much cap space plus precious few roster spots makes for a pretty convenient meshing of salient facts.

When the New Orleans Pelicans won the 2019 NBA draft lottery five weeks ahead of the draft itself, everybody knew with a high degree of certainty that Zion Williamson would be their pick. Sure, there were some teams that might have had to think twice about Ja Morant, but Williamson was the overwhelming favorite.