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The Detroit Pistons will have a top-five pick for the third season in a row. But they didn’t leave Tuesday’s NBA draft lottery with the grand prize. Detroit will have the fifth pick in this year’s draft, which will take place at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center in New York on June 22. The Pistons won’t be

The Detroit Pistons are picking No. 5 in next month’s NBA draft, which means only one thing. No Victor Wembanyama. Actually, it means more than that. A lot more. It means there’s little hope for the Pistons to be much better next season. And it means what we all suspect: Detroit just can’t have nice

The NBA draft lottery, otherwise known informally as the Victor Wembanyama sweepstakes, has a winner. The San Antonio Spurs, who entered Tuesday night’s lottery with a 14% chance of claiming the NBA draft’s top pick, will have the right to make the No. 1 overall selection in the 2023 NBA draft in June. That means,

Victor Wembanyama is one of the greatest basketball prospects of all time, and the Detroit Pistons have a chance to select him. It all comes down to Tuesday night at 8 p.m. when the league will announce the winner of the 2023 NBA draft lottery. The Pistons, San Antonio Spurs, and Houston Rockets each have

Apple Podcasts | Spotify • Hosts: Bryce Simon (@MotorCityHoops) and Omari Sankofa II (@omarisankofa) • Producer: Wes Davenport • Editor: Robin Chan • Executive producers: Anjanette Delgado, Kirkland Crawford • Email: brycesimon3309@gmail.com; osankofa@freepress.com On this episode: Bryce and Omari have an update on the search for a new head coach. Is Monty Williams vision for a team compatible with the Detroit Pistons roster? Later, with the NBA draft finally

You know the odds. And if you don’t, here’s a quick refresher: the Detroit Pistons have a 14% chance of winning tonight’s NBA draft lottery; they have a 52% chance of landing in the top four.   Now, I know what you’re thinking: Aren’t there three top-tier prospects? And what if the Pistons end up with

Tuesday’s NBA draft lottery will be one of the most important in league history, thanks to the player projected to go first overall. He’s 7-foot-5, moves and handles the ball like a small forward, grazes the sky with his 3-pointers and speaks French. You might’ve heard of him.  Victor Wembanyama is one of the greatest

The future of the NBA is in the balance and the Detroit Pistons are center stage. At 8 p.m. Tuesday, the world will find out which city 7-foot-5 French phenom Victor Wembanyama will call home. Basketball fans have been seeing and hearing about “Wemby” for years now, as clips, rumors and legends have built up

For the fourth straight season, the Detroit Pistons will have their summer plans decided — or at least clarified — by the tumblings of a quartet of ping-pong balls during the NBA draft lottery. This year’s edition is set for 7 p.m. Tuesday in Chicago, and for the first time in that span, the Pistons

On Tuesday, the Detroit Pistons will finally learn their position in the NBA draft. The lottery will take place in Chicago at 7 p.m. Detroit is guaranteed a top-five pick, but they — and the other 13 teams — will cross their fingers with the hope of landing the first overall pick. French phenom Victor

A lawyer for fired Detroit Pistons executive Rob Murphy disclosed a bombshell Thursday, alleging the Pistons cleared his client months ago of sexual harassment following an internal investigation into claims that Murphy taunted, groped and assaulted his former executive assistant. Attorney Steven Potter did not explain why the Pistons still fired Murphy in the wake

The 2004 Detroit Pistons are sacred around these parts. Their underdog roster, full of former castoffs led by Chauncey Billups and Ben Wallace, revitalized each others’ careers and the Pistons’ franchise, leading them to one of the most surprising upsets in NBA Finals history over the Los Angeles Lakers. One of the rugged bench players

Gregg Popovich won 22 games this season. And he’s widely considered the best coach in the NBA. An argument could be made that Erik Spoelstra is the league’s best coach. Yet his Miami Heat lost 45 times the year after LeBron James left for Cleveland, mostly because, um, James left for Cleveland. Now, I know