Dana Gauruder | Special to Detroit Free Press If everything had followed the blueprint, Killian Hayes would have gone through one of these experiences much earlier in the season. The Detroit Pistons‘ point guard had a large chunk of his rookie year stripped away from him due to a hip injury, but coach Dwane Casey rode
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We hear from Isaiah Stewart after he comes off the bench to post 12 points and 8 rebounds in 22 minutes Wednesday night. #DetroitBasketball
We hear from coach Dwane Casey after Reggie Jackson comes back to haunt the Pistons in a 100-98 loss to the Clippers. #ItsMillerTime
Dana Gauruder | Special to Detroit Free Press No one could have anticipated that a Detroit Pistons defeat to the mighty Los Angeles Clippers would be categorized as a bad loss. This one wound up being a really bad loss. Facing a depleted Clippers lineup, the Pistons squandered an 11-point lead in the final 5 minutes and
Detroit — The Pistons had one of their better games this season in Sunday’s loss to the Los Angeles Clippers. They played one of the top teams in the Western Conference down to the final minutes of the fourth quarter, before the Clippers pulled away. The rematch on Wednesday was just as good. The result was
In a season full of impressive tanking by the Detroit Pistons, tonight’s loss takes the cake. Down 11 points with under five minutes left, the LA Clippers went on an 18-5 run to win the game 100-98, aided by a former resident of Little Caesars Arena. Pistons fans surely remember Reggie Jackson’s proclivity for late-game
The tightened schedule the NBA adopted to squeeze 72 games into five months is being criticized amid an increase in injuries, writes Baxter Holmes of ESPN. Holmes talked to several general managers and training staff officials who believe players are more at risk than ever. The torn ACL suffered this week by Nuggets guard Jamal
The Los Angeles Clippers will be even more short handed than they were Sunday when these two teams faced off. Stars Paul George and Kawhi Leonard are sitting out tonight’s contest against the Detroit Pistons, and they join the already sidelined Serge Ibaka and Patrick Beverly. Conversely, the Pistons look to have Jearmi Grant and
We took last week off from the Pistons to talk the upcoming NBA Draft, so in case you missed that episode, make sure to check it out here! Now, we’re back talking Detroit Basketball. In this episode, we focus on the French Connection — that is, Killian Hayes’ return and the consistently curious case that
It’s been nearly two months since we checked in on the status of 2021’s traded first-round picks, and there have been plenty of shifts in the NBA standings since then. Those changes have an impact on where in the draft certain traded picks will land, as well as whether or not some protected picks will
The Detroit Pistons return to Little Caesars Arena having won two of their five games on the recent West Coast road trip. That’s a solid result in a typical year, though it’s less ideal for the Pistons’ lottery odds. With the Orlando Magic within reach of the coveted third-worst record, Detroit has extra motivation to
Lansing — The leaders of many of Michigan’s largest companies are opposing more restrictive voting laws, posing a possible obstacle to the plans of the state’s Republican lawmakers. Leaders of more than three dozen major Michigan-based companies — including the Detroit Three automakers, mortgage lending giant Rocket Cos. and all four of Detroit’s professional sports teams — released a joint statement
Cory Joseph hasn’t been with the Detroit Pistons very long. But he’s impressed with what he’s seen so far. Since joining the franchise March 26, Joseph has acquainted himself with the rest of the roster — particularly the rookies. The Pistons asked Joseph to be a mentor for the young players; while he already had
So much has been made about the Pistons’ youth movement and young core, that it’s often overlooked that they have some good veterans around them too. It’s not just Jerami Grant, Wayne Ellington and Rodney McGruder. Count Cory Joseph among them. Joseph, 29, arrived in the trade that sent Delon Wright to the Sacramento Kings
Pat Graham | Associated Press Denver — The Denver Nuggets will be without Jamal Murray indefinitely after the dynamic point guard suffered a torn ACL in his left knee. The Nuggets announced the diagnosis in a statement Tuesday. It’s a big blow to a team coming off a season in which it advanced to the Western Conference
The Detroit Pistons are entering the home stretch of the season. Following After a five-game Western Conference road swing, they will play 12 of their final 18 games at home. Despite being at the bottom of the Eastern Conference standings and not even having a shot at a play-in game, they’re still competing as though they
Ben Ross | Associated Press San Francisco — Stephen Curry passed Wilt Chamberlain for the most points in Warriors franchise history Monday night in Golden State’s game against the Denver Nuggets. Curry scored 21 points in the first quarter, giving him 17,786 in his career. That passes Chamberlain’s 17,783 with the franchise, a record he’d held
April 12th 2021 at 9:55pm CST by Dana Gauruder The Bulls were 3-6 since the addition of Nikola Vucevic entering Monday’s game against Memphis but Billy Donovan isn’t ready to shake up his lineup, according to Joe Cowley of The Chicago Sun Times. “One of the things we try and do is after like every
By Dave Campbell | Associated Press Minneapolis — In the raw aftermath of another killing of a Black man by police in Minnesota, there was no place for pro sports in the Twin Cities on Monday. The Minnesota Twins, Wild and Timberwolves all postponed their games a day after the shooting of 20-year-old Daunte Wright following a