Brandon Knight left before the end of the first quarter from an elbow under the basket from former Piston DaJuan Summers. Knight suffered a broken nose and is doubtful to return against the Hornets, but I’m betting he’ll be back for their next game looking like another masked man we know.
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Via Crain’s Detroit “Auburn Hills-based Palace Sports and Entertainment LCC may slash the number of suites of The Palace of Auburn Hills to 80 skyboxes from the current 178, according to a new report. The plan would be to convert suite space on the penthouse level of the Detroit Pistons’ home into a restaurant, social [...]
Earlier today, Rodney Stuckey and the Detroit Pistons agreed to a 3 year, 25 million dollar deal to bring the 4 year guard back to Detroit. The roster is now coming back together, and showing some semblance of a legitimate NBA roster (by legitimate I mean that all of the positions and appropriate depth are [...]
Today was the first day that players could officially re-sign with their teams after ratifying the latest Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) agreed to a little over a week ago to end the NBA Lockout. Today was also really the first day that new Pistons owner Tom Gores’ staff could get to work evaluating the talent [...]
I’m sure Pistons fans are just as excited as Cavs fans that both of their preseason games are against each other. The Pistons first game will be on December 16th at the Palace at 7:30 and the second on December 20th at Quicken Loans Arena at 7:00.Both games will be broadcast on FSD and locally [...]
It’s been more than slow this summer when it comes to basketball news. We have no real clue when the NBA and the Players will or if the players decide to put their differences aside and agree on some sort of new CBA so we can get back to dribbling and dunking this year. The [...]
Pistons lose their draft pick Kyle Singler for (hopefully) the time being: “Detroit Pistons’ draft pick Kyle Singler has reached agreement on a contract with Alicante of Spain’s top professional league, Singler’s agent told Yahoo! Sports. Singler’s deal with Alicante contains an out clause that will allow him to return to the NBA if the [...]
Let me dust off the cobwebs… Sorry you guys, Natalie and I have been busy doing life related things, and have not had a chance to update the site as frequently as we would like in the last few weeks. We both know that while there is not a lot of positive things going on, [...]
According to Yahoo! Sports’ Adrian Wojnarowski, Lawrence Frank will receive a formal offer to become the Detroit Pistons next Head Coach within the next 24-36 hours. Go look at the tweet here Better yet, just stay here and do reading at the tweet: No Laimbeer, No 2004 LB connection in Mike Woodson, No 1st year [...]
This is no beauty contest, but the Pistons are down to their final two coaching candidates. According to ESPN the future of Detroit could be chosen soon. NBA coaching sources say that the Pistons are inching closer to a decision, though. Of the five known candidates for job, sources say that former Pistons assistant Mike [...]
It’s been a while since did a link drop, but considering there is some news to report here goes. Since the Pistons decided not to extend a qualifying offer to DaJuan Summers, he is heading to Italy to to play for with Montepaschi Siena, a team in Italy’s Lega Basket Serie A. Lakers hire John [...]
Vernon Macklin – Power Forward/Center from the University of Florida Gators. Going with the same theme of the Singler post – my 2 word descriptor for Macklin is “hard worker”. If I had to describe his style of play I’d say he’s a “bigger Jason Maxiell, without the shot blocking”. His body reminds me of [...]
Kyle Singler, forward from the Duke Blue Devils. If I had to pick a word to describe Singler, it’d be “winner”. If I could go a step further to describe Singler’s playing style, I’d say he plays like a “Coach’s son”. Singler tries to do all of the things that you want your superstar player [...]
Brandon Knight, point guard from the University of Kentucky Wildcats. With Bismack Biyombo, Jonas Valanciunas and Tristan Thompson off the board (only Biyombo and Thompson were slated to go to #8), Detroit was left with making a stunningly obvious pick of Brandon Knight, the talented first year point guard from the University of Kentucky. Here [...]
As reported on ESPN earlier, and also here by the dreamy Justin Rogers of MLive, the Pistons and Head Coach John Kuester will be going their separate ways after 2 long seasons with Kuester at the helm. Kuester was 55 – 107 57 – 107 as coach of the Detroit Pistons. This was the first [...]
(Sort of) Breaking News! From wxyz.com: According to a press release by public relations firm Marx Layne, the agreement calls for (Tom) Gores to buy the team and the rest of the holdings of Palace Sports and Entertainment. No details on price have been released. The deal is expected to close June 30. Tom Gores [...]
