Plenty of things have been swirling when it comes to Detroit’s offseason, but this comes from Yahoo Sport’s Adrian Wojnarowski, who’s been on point and breaking stories left and right.
“Detroit is still exploring ways to make a deal for Utah Jazz forward Carlos Boozer(notes), but the most likely scenario centers around the free-agent signing of Drew Gooden, or distantly, Boston’s Glen “Big Baby” Davis.”
Take into account that I got word from our Pistons insider Matt Dery of 97.1 the Ticket that Joe isn’t looking to pick up Boozer and he was right about the Afflalo move, so I trust what he’s got to say.
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dyess not dice but w/e
CAN SOMEBODY SAY BUTT BUTT BUTT KISSERRRRRRR!!!!!!! You were the teachers pet to weren’t you?!?!?!? Don’t lie yes you were come on admit it….. it will feel so good if you do…. come on come onnn
KWAME BROWN 2010 MVP! MVP! MVP! you heard it here first!
There’s no denying it man, african americans have excelled in the NBA and there’s nothing to indicate a change. Sure there are white superstars (Steve Nash), but for every 1 white superstar there are 10 black superstars. Their dominance over the sport isn’t going to change for a long tim.e
And Rip Hamilton for Rookie of the Year!!!
You are cool
It is going to be such a sad season next year…. are the pistons the new lions???????
Chuck, it’s comments like yours that really have no place here. We talk about basketball, it’s not the 5th grade.
I think it’s a no-brainer to add Ben for the Veteran’s Minimum. I certainly don’t expect him to get a lot of playing time. I just think it would be great to have his veteran leadership in the locker room. No one seems to be willing to take the role he had when he left. It would also be nice to have someone who can play some defense. This move is not going to eat into any cap space. Do it Joe!!!
just a thought, why don’t we sign and trade Iverson to the clippers and get one of their 9 big men. they got a whole slew of talented chaps over there.
but not drafting a guy because he is white is idiot. That is clearly what he was going at.
shut up u should just not talk because i bet you we have a better record than last year. There are multiple teams worse than us, we are nowhere near the Lions. You sir are an idiot too!
Yes I want to make it racial. You gonna pretend there is no difference? We are different. White players can only be excellent on the PG position (in the NBA), on any other they are too slow. And I’m white and from country thats pretty close to Serbia and its a fact. The only white and TALL guy who was a star on his team in the last 20 yrs is Dirk. All others were avrg at best. Check all those white players drafted recently. For example Bargnani and Bogut no1 draft picks. And check how many black players from those draft years Toronto and Bucks didnt take that were 10 times better.
there are a ton of black “flops” too. I’m pretty sure Larry Bird, Kevin McHale were both white, tall, and within last 20 yrs. You are so ignorant I doubt you even know those two people.
Omg ok 16 yrs then. I knew u gonna try to squeeze in Larry Bird over here. Im talkin about modern NBA.
Oh I forgot. And dumbasses from Minnesota traded Mayo for Love. hahahahahah. just wow. they will never learn.
maybe om being a bit optimistic….but does anyone have a feeling joe is keeping a BIG secret undercover and something big is gonna happen with this team????
word. people forget Joe did this exact same thing putting the ’04 team together.
…and they whined about it then too.
hahaha! but really, any other team in the NBA would have selected Darko with the #2 pick that year as well. it was an educated guess (just like all draft picks are.)
besides, we obviously were able to afford making that pick… it’s not like we went on to win the world championship that year. oh, wait….
idk the Draft class that Bargnani was in was incredibly weak. Are you saying that Randy Foye is ten times better?
I don’t think that Iverson wants anything more to do with the Pistons. And there’s not a chance he’ll sign for less than 3.2 million with the Pistons, when he can just sign for just under 6 million straight up with the Clippers. He’s already been offered that, so why would he take less?
Arvydas Sabonis — dominant NBA center with the Blazers.
Mehmet Okur — not completely dominant, but definitely one of the top centers in the NBA today.
Chris Mullin — outstanding SF (probably the best in the league) for th better part of the ’90′s.
Troy Murphy — don’t know who he is? Look up his stat sheet from last year.
David Lee — double/double machine!
Vlade Divac — another dominant center from the Arvydas Sabonis period. Not to mention one of the best passing big men ever to play the game.
Chris Kaman — when at 100%, easily one of the best true centers in the NBA.
Jack Sikma — 7 all-star appearances, one of the bset players on the ONLY Sonic championship team.
Jeff Hornacek — Deadly from deep.
Dan Majerle — possibly one of the best deep shooters, and also possibly one of the top five greatest clutch players ever to play in the NBA.
Rex Chapman, Brad Miller, Scott Skiles (still holds the NBA record for assists in one game), Detlef Schrempf, Brent Barry (white men CAN jump — won the 1996 slam dunk contest)
should I keep going or….
I think Joe has a huge secret he’s keeping. A lot of small moves lately..,could mean something big is going to happen.
couldn’t have said it any better
And Wilcox = some serious character issues…
wow, that really got outta hand there… I’m multi racial (african american and italian) so I take both sides ahahahahaha!
I wouldn’t call signing BG and CV31 small, but maybe the trades and w/e to clear up some room would be the thing behind the scenes. i hope you guys are right, really i just see us getting Gooden and maybe B. Wallace. I don’t mind Gooden, I think he would be alright, right now i think we need to focus on getting big bodies (at best talent provided). It would be nice to see a trade I just don’t see it happening as much i as I really feel that the team should part ways with RIP. Anyways, Gooden will be decent, as before he got to the spurs he was pretty good with the bulls and cavs. He could easily give us 12pts 11rebs a game.
THANK YOU!
John Stockton. enough said
i’ll even keep it Pistons
“black” flops
Kwame flippin Brown
Mateen Cleaves
Rodney White
Larry Bird played longer than that. See you don’t even know McHale
I completely agree that we need a true big man and one that plays like it. The signings of BG and CV were no doubt crucial to this offseason, but by signing a versatile big man, we now have 3 big men (max, kwame, and CV) all of whom can score in the post but do not excell at it. i think if we are looking for more rebounds then ben is the way to go, but personally i think making a trade for boozer, chandler, kaman, or someone like that is necessary especially if we want to dump a contract and still think we have a shot a bosh or maybe dirk next year. signing gooden would be fine, but we aren’t at the top of the east with that move yet anyways. so i don’t understand. save the cap space, make a trade, or get ben for real cheap.
haha, and I didn’t even mention the BEST of them ALL!
BILL LAMBIER!
Sign gooden and ben wallace for needed big man depth
our bench will be stacked bynum jerebko daye summers maxiell washington ben wallace (maybe charlie is we sign gooden)
i would like to see glen davis in detroit, and to be honest i’d like to see if we can get both ben wallace and glen davis, no matter how you feel ben has played he is still better than kwame brown, with that being said i’d like to talk about our back court, believe it or not we have to potential to have the best back court rotation in the east, and another thing do not count out our draft picks cause those guys have mad skills, they need jsut a a tad bit of twiking with there defense, and i’m sure the john kuester can work that out pdq. MY FELLOW PISTONS FANS THE CLOUDS ARE NOT AS DARK AS YOU THINK!!! if John Kuester does his job, which i personaly believe he will, and if you can pick up a couple half good bigs we will be fine. just have faith and keep your eyes glued to espn and keep checking in with Natalie.
i forgot if we dont trade rip add gordon to that list
have faith mcdeisel we will be fine,we are rebuilding and i for one like the parts we have . because the last couple of years the pistons have played like a team that didnt have any thing to play for, at times they looked bored. but the team joe has put together is young and has alot to prove. i think stuckey has massive potential and should be alot better this year.and if gordon plays the way he did during the playoff we should be fine.and i know alot of people dont want k brown being the starter but i will take 7 or 8 points and 8 or 9 rebound than a center who hangs out behind the 3 point line all game (sheed) .but the new lions ,i wouldn’t put that on any team lol
hey, how do you guys feel about the play of the pistons draft picks during the summer league? i think daye and summers are going to be really good players i hope they get lots of playing time ,i think they can help right away
yeah cause we’d start Gooden over Villanueva… what a waste of money that would be.
i like Jerebko better, idk y but he seems more consistent and potentially a backup center
chuck that was funny……. 2o years ago
i agree with the k brown comment. what i dont understand is y every1 wants a all star c that can score in bunches. HELLO look at our roster THIS year, we dont need that now we needed that last year. we have cv31 gordon stuck bynum all of whom can score at will. all we need at c is some1 to do what u just said get 8 to 9 points and 8 to 9 rebounds a game solid is all we need not superstar. remember guys this is a team game
agree with the rebounds maybe, but not the points, unless they r garbage points
do not even mention dirk, i hate that waste of space
ya jerebko is mad physical at center he is playing against all the centers and dominating, i see him as our backup c
yeah i doubt the Pistons will do a big trade unless Rip has an attitude again. We are pretty much set w/ the roster but i still hope we sign Big Ben @ the vet minimum.
That cap has to be for something though and it just doesn’t seem like we’d trade afflalo for Big Baby or Gooden. A David Lee sign and trade would be nice
lol
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