Cade Cunningham is growing up before our eyes. The question is no longer whether he was a worth pick at No. 1 overall. It isn’t even whether Cunningham might be destined for stardom. The question is whether superstardom is on the horizon. If Cunningham puts together a few more halves like his second-half showing against
For those who want evidence for why Cade Cunningham was the near-consensus No. 1 overall pick in a stacked draft, the Detroit Pistons‘ win over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Sunday provided plenty. Cunningham had one of his worst first halves of the season, with 10 straight misses. It appeared he was heading toward another poor night
By Steve Kornacki | Special to The Detroit News Detroit – Pistons guard Frank Jackson saw to it that another slow start by his team didn’t result in falling behind by so many points that there was no contest to be had. Jackson (19 points) came off the bench Sunday night along with Trey Lyles (15
By Steve Kornacki | Special to The Detroit News Detroit — Guard Cory Joseph is the most experienced Piston. He’s in the middle of his 11th season, and had 145 starts in 700 games entering Sunday night’s game with Cleveland. Joseph was in the starting lineup against the Cavaliers, marking the fourth consecutive game he’s taken second-year
Welcome to the Rookie of the Year race. The presumptive front-runner this year is Evan Mobley, who looks to be a generationally excellent defensive player with plenty of offense in his game as well. He’s helped the Cleveland Cavaliers vault from near the bottom to the top of the conference in just one season. Not
Second-year Pistons guard Killian Hayes, a former lottery pick, has improved as a contributor since being demoted to Detroit’s bench three games ago, writes Steve Kornacki of The Detroit News. Head coach Dwayne Casey opted to start veteran point guard Cory Joseph over Hayes, thinking Joseph could be a better fit alongside score-first No. 1 2021
On Jan. 18 against the Golden State Warriors, Detroit Pistons point guard Killian Hayes suffered a hip injury in a collision with a baseline camera man. To make matters worse, this was the same right hip he had surgery on during his rookie campaign. Fortunately, the second-year guard was only sidelined for a couple of
It has been a quiet trade period across the NBA thus far, with less than two weeks before the Feb. 10 trade deadline. Like any year, talks will heat up rapidly as we get closer to the date. The Detroit Pistons were active before last deadline, dealing Derrick Rose, Delon Wright and Svi Mykhailiuk, and parting ways
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Former Bulls forward Thaddeus Young discussed a variety of subjects with K.C. Johnson of NBC Sports Chicago, including his time with the team and how he found out that he was being traded to San Antonio. Young has only played in 25 games with the Spurs, a team clearly focused on building for the future.
By Steve Kornacki | Special to The Detroit News Detroit — The Killian Hayes “experiment” has been going on for three games. Pistons coach Dwane Casey opted to have second-year point guard, the team’s No. 7 overall pick in the 2020 NBA Draft out of France, begin coming into games off the bench. Hayes hadn’t developed a
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
There was always going to be a feeling-out process for getting Killian Hayes and Cade Cunningham acclimated to each other. Playing multiple ball-handlers together isn’t a novel concept, particularly in today’s NBA. But Cunningham is a rookie, and Hayes might as well be one given how his rookie season of 2020-21 was shortened by the
The Detroit Pistons, who left Auburn Hills in 2017, are immersing themselves in the culture of their new home. Attend a game at Little Caesars Arena, and you’ll find that nearly all of the programming showcases the city of Detroit. The halftime performance often features a local musician or rapper. The team mostly did away with the Kiss Cam this
January 28th 2022 at 10:02pm CST by Rory Maher Pacers center Domantas Sabonis returned to action Friday at Oklahoma City, Scott Agness of Fieldhouse Files tweets. Sabonis put up 24 points, 18 rebounds, 10 assists, two steals and two blocks in Indiana’s 113-110 overtime victory. Sabonis missed four games with a sprained left ankle suffered
Pistons head coach Dwane Casey speaks with the media following a hard fought loss against the Magic in Orlando. #ItsMillerTime
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
January has been good to the Detroit Pistons. They have six wins this month — more than the five games they won during the first three months of the 2021-22 season combined. That run includes victories over the Milwaukee Bucks, Utah Jazz and Toronto Raptors. The blowouts have been few and far between. Their three-game skid
To say the Pistons started off this game poorly would be an understatement. The Pistons missed a lot of easy layups early, and that was just the tip of the iceberg. They played poor defense, turned the ball over a lot, and kept missing shots. They only had 8 points through 7 minutes of the
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