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By Steve Kornacki |  Special to The Detroit News Some things just can’t be explained. Pistons Rookie of the Year candidate Cade Cunningham scored a career-high 34 points Tuesday while also grabbing eight rebounds and dishing eight assists in a dynamite game against Denver in Detroit. Then Cunningham missed his first 12 shots from the field

By Steve Kornacki |  Special to The Detroit News Pistons coach Dwane Casey isn’t the first and won’t be the last to confuse the brothers Wagner — Moe (6-foot-11) and Franz (6-foot-10) — for one another. Moe helped take the Wolverines to the 2018 Final Four and was a first-round draft pick by the Los Angeles Lakers

By Steve Kornacki |  Special to The Detroit News Pistons reserve guard Frank Jackson hasn’t missed a beat since coming back from a month hiatus with an ankle injury and COVID protocols. Jackson made his first shot — a 3-pointer — Tuesday night in his return game and finished with 11 points (5-for-11 shooting) and two rebounds against the Denver Nuggets.

By Steve Kornacki |  Special to The Detroit News Detroit — Pistons guard Cade Cunningham reached some unprecedented heights in Tuesday night’s 110-105 loss to the Denver Nuggets. Cunningham became the only rookie in NBA history to reach all of these minimums in one game:  34 points, six 3-pointers, eight rebounds, eight assists, two steals and four

By Steve Kornacki |  Special to The Detroit News Detroit — Basketball is a team game, and Pistons coach Dwane Casey stressed that to the media Tuesday night, prior to the Denver Nuggets beating his team for the second time in three days — this time by a 110-105 score. However, this game offered fans at Little

By Steve Kornacki |  Special to The Detroit News Detroit — Pistons guard Rodney McGruder is averaging 13.8 points and 3.8 rebounds in the four games since returning to the Pistons after the trade that would’ve sent him and Brooklyn’s 2022 second-round pick to the Denver Nuggets for forward Bol Bol. It was voided after Detroit found an

Denver — Cade Cunningham was the first big injury, missing most of training camp, then the first few games of the regular season. In November, Kelly Olynyk sustained a knee injury that kept him out for more than two months. Then, it was leading scorer Jerami Grant, who missed more than a month and had

Denver — The Pistons are getting closer to being at full strength. They recalled Jerami Grant and Frank Jackson from the Motor City Cruise on Monday, and the two could be ready to return to the lineup for Tuesday home matchup against the Denver Nuggets. After season-long issues with injuries and COVID protocols, they are

Go through the gallery above to view Rod Beard’s midseason grades for the 2021-22 Detroit Pistons. Click here if you’re having trouble viewing the gallery. The Pistons are a little more than halfway through the season, and like last year, it’s been a bit of a struggle. Much of the subpar 11-35 record can be attributed to COVID issues

Denver — This time, it wasn’t the third quarter that did the Pistons in, as has happened so many times this season. The third quarter wasn’t good, as the Denver Nuggets used a 16-point advantage to pull ahead. Instead of folding, the Pistons had a bounce-back fourth quarter, and they erased the deficit, tying the game

Denver — The Pistons have another player in health and safety protocols. Center Kelly Olynyk, who returned this week from a knee injury that kept him out for more than two months, will miss some more time. Olynyk will have to return two negative tests taken at least 24 hours apart or be out for

Salt Lake City — It’s not often that the Pistons roll into Salt Lake City and pick up a win. It’s even more rare that they complete a season sweep of the Utah Jazz. With a come-from-behind win in Detroit on Jan. 10, both feats were in play with a victory on Friday night. The

Salt Lake City — There are less than three weeks until the trade deadline, and it’s time for silly season. There are going to be any number of trade rumors about potential deals that the Pistons are involved in, but as Stan Van Gundy noted, very few of those rumors come to fruition. Of course,

Sacramento — The odds were stacked against the Pistons on Wednesday night. They had a 10-point deficit with three minutes to go, on the road, on the second night of a back-to-back. In many games this season, that scenario would have spelled doom. They managed to turn the tables on the Sacramento Kings and snatched