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The Detroit Pistons have gotten back on track by winning five of their last six games after a disastrous 0-7 start to the month of December. Among their recent notable performances has been the strong play of point guard Ish Smith coming off the bench. The journeyman has settled in nicely as of late with […]

When NBA fans think of incredible ball-handling skills, one would not expect to think of Detroit Pistons star center Andre Drummond. However, the seven-footer pulled off a move on Indiana Pacers center Domantas Sabonis on Tuesday night that made him look like Boston Celtics point guard Kyrie Irving. With the Pistons up 83-66 early in […]

Just when the Detroit Pistons are starting to turn things around after a lengthy skid, they seemed to have suffered a major setback with starting point guard Reggie Jackson sustaining an ankle injury in the third quarter of Tuesday’s dominant 107-83 win over the Indiana Pacers at home. Jackson hurt his ankle in the third […]

New York Knicks head coach Jeff Hornacek had something to say about his Detroit Pistons counterpart Stan Van Gundy’s insinuation that the Knickerbockers are enjoying a preferential treatment from the NBA in terms of scheduling, pointing that whichever way you cut it, each and every NBA team will still have to play 41 teams at […]

For so many of us, Christmas is usually a season of joy and spending time with loved ones. For Detroit Pistons guard Avery Bradley, Christmas was not a time of the year that he originally looked forward to. In a recent exclusive interview with Rod Beard of The Detroit News, Bradley opened up about his rough […]

Donovan Mitchell has been shooting the lights out for the Utah Jazz so far this season. The rookie guard owns numbers of 17.7 points, 3.0 rebounds, 3.4 assists, and 1.5 steals per game over 31 contests. The University of Louisville product has emerged as one of the top first year players despite being picked near the […]

Dallas Mavericks rookie Dennis Smith Jr. is set to return to the lineup against the Detroit Pistons following a six-game absence due to a left hip strain, per Earl K. Sneed. However, Mavs coach Rick Carlisle has hinted that Smith could be on a minutes restriction upon his return, Sneed also reports. Smith suffered the […]

The Detroit Pistons have announced that Avery Bradley will be shut down for one week. The defensive-minded shooting guard will then be re-evaluated afterwards. Via NBA.com: “He’s going to be shut down for at least a week,” Stan Van Gundy said after Tuesday’s practice. “We’ll go at least seven days and then week to week. […]

Back in the 1980’s, Los Angeles Lakers legend Magic Johnson and Detroit Pistons icon Isiah Thomas were considered best friends. Unfortunately, their once great friendship was no more after the Detroit Pistons and Los Angeles Lakers finally played each other in two consecutive NBA Finals in 1988 and 1989. Johnson eventually admitted that he helped […]

Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant recently sat down with Shams Charania of Yahoo! Sports for a wide-ranging discussion. During the one-on-one interview, Bryant, who will see his jersey hoisted to the rafters inside the Staples Center on Monday night, was asked to look back on his 20-year career in the NBA. As most hoops […]

Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant isn’t called “The Black Mamba” only because of his on-court exploits during his playing days. He also earned that label for being one of the most venomous trash talkers the NBA has ever seen. The future Hall of Famer even revealed to the University of Connecticut Huskies women’s basketball […]

Christmas is still a few days away, but Andre Drummond is making it come a little early. The Detroit Pistons big man had a remarkable night against the Atlanta Hawks as he had 12 points, 18 rebounds, and perhaps most impressively, dished off eight assists, which is a new career high. Drummond had actually been […]

This 2017-2018 NBA season may be nicknamed “The Year of the Facial Accessory.” Detroit Pistons swingman Anthony Tolliver will be yet another player this year who has needed to wear some sort of apparatus on his face in order to protect or prevent an injury. He reportedly broke his nose and practiced with a mask, […]

The Pistons were once sitting pretty near the top of the Eastern Conference, but they now find themselves at 14-13 after a brutal seven-game losing skid. They have lost the last three games at home, the most recent of which was a 103-84 blowout defeat to a Denver Nuggets team without Nikola Jokic and Paul […]

Arguably, Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid is pound for pound, has the best Twitter game in the NBA, if not in all in all of pro sports. Minnesota Timberwolves big man Karl-Anthony Towns is very much aware of this, and while acknowledging Embiid’s expert use of social media, he implied that he doesn’t particularly share […]

Hardly a game goes by without someone within the NBA praising Boston Celtics rookie Jayson Tatum. Detroit Pistons head coach Stan Van Gundy was the latest to chime in and offer his praises for the Celtics’ star youngster. According to The Republican’s Jay King, Van Gundy remarked prior to the Pistons’ game against the Celtics […]

Head coach Stan Van Gundy has always spoken his mind. That didn’t change when the Detroit Pistons coach gave his thoughts on one of the team’s most important players in Stanley Johnson, per Vince Ellis of the Detroit Free Press. Johnson is in his third year in the NBA, all with the Pistons. He’s played […]

The Detroit Pistons are in a rough patch right now, but center Andre Drummond is trying to be the team’s voice of reason. After finishing a road trip 0-4, the Pistons moved to fourth in the Eastern Conference at 14-10. But Drummond had a message for his team after coming out of the trip, per […]

The Detroit Pistons might be taking the idea of rebounding the ball for granted because of their center Andre Drummond’s monster effort on the glass on an almost-nightly basis. Drummond is leading the NBA in rebounds, pulling down 15.0 boards per game, but isn’t getting much help from his teammates, mainly because of their over-reliance […]

The Detroit Pistons needed a hard look in the mirror after a disappointing 2016-17 season coming after a year of ending a playoff drought by managing to sneak in as the last seed in the East. The trio of Reggie Jackson, Andre Drummond, and Tobias Harris are making a collective salary of $56 million this […]

Legendary retired Philadelphia 76ers guard Allen Iverson uploaded a series of posts on Instagram that said he intends to bring back all of his classic sneakers as part of the Reebok I3 Legacy Collection. Iverson took to Instagram on Thursday night to share the news with his 3.7 million followers, which included a picture of […]

It was a clash between two of the league’s premier big men on Saturday night when the Philadelphia 76ers hosted the Detroit Pistons at Wells Fargo Center. There was a ton of anticipation leading up to this matchup, as the two centers in the 76ers’ Joel Embiid and the Pistons’ Andre Drummond squared off against […]

Somebody alert Brian Cardinal because Detroit Pistons power forward Anthony Tolliver is apparently eyeing his title of “The Custodian.” During a break in the third quarter of Saturday’s road game against the Philadelphia 76ers, Tolliver grabbed a mop and used some of his unused adrenaline by helping the crew of Wells Fargo Center maintain the […]

In the last several months, there has been a growing feud between Detroit Pistons center Andre Drummond and Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid. It has now boiled over off the court with the two exchanging verbal jabs at each over social. The latest has come from Drummond calling out Embiid for not playing the first […]

After Joel Embiid finished with 30 points and nine rebounds against the Detroit Pistons in their first matchup of the 2017-18 NBA season, he took a shot at Andre Drummond’s defense, who finished with five fouls. As the two centers face off against each other on Dec. 2, Embiid took another shot prior to the […]

The Detroit Pistons missed a pivotal chance to extend their win streak to four against a wounded Washington Wizards team playing without their star point guard John Wall. Having gotten to a six-point lead at the half, the Pistons were throttled by a Wizards team that put the clamps on defense and outscored Detroit 35-15 […]

Marcus Morris’ exit from the Detroit Pistons was unforeseen for all parties involved, but in the midst of Gordon Hayward’s acquisition by the Boston Celtics, president and head coach Stan Van Gundy saw the chance to pounce at one of the league’s premier three-and-D talents with the ongoing back-and-forth with then-restricted free agent Kentavious Caldwell-Pope. […]

If not for the availability of Avery Bradley and the situation with Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, Marcus Morris would still be a Detroit Pistons player. Pistons coach and president Stan Van Gundy admitted as such and revealed he had not entertained the idea of trading him before then. “We never had one thought about trading Marcus ever. […]

Ex-NBA shooting guard Ben Gordon has apparently found himself in trouble with the law yet again after he was arrested in Los Angeles for felony robbery on Saturday afternoon when he allegedly assaulted an apartment manager in the face before he took off with thousands of dollars. According to law enforcement via a report from […]

The Boston Celtics made plenty of changes coming into the 2017-18 NBA season. Among them was essentially the overhaul of their backcourt which was highlighted by the arrival of superstar Kyrie Irving. Meanwhile, the Celtics’ former pairing of Isaiah Thomas and Avery Bradley were dealt as Boston prepared for a new era of basketball. Although […]

Andre Drummond was absolutely unstoppable as he put up 26 points, 22 rebounds, six assists, and four steals to power the Detroit Pistons past the league-leading Boston Celtics, 118-108. Drummond’s amazing stat line is so rare that he became the first player since the great Charles Barkley in 1990 to come up with such ridiculous […]

Avery Bradley had a successful return to Boston as his Detroit Pistons beat the league-leading Celtics on the road, 118-108. After the game, though, Bradley realized just how much the Celtics had changed from the team he was a part of just last year. Sign of Celtics rebuild: Avery Bradley walks into C’s locker room, […]

Following the Boston Celtics’ 118-108 loss to the Detroit Pistons at TD Garden, superstar point guard Kyrie Irving met with the media after the game and gave his reaction to Monday night’s defeat. According to an article from Jay King of MassLive.com, Irving gave props to the Pistons but made it no secret that he’s […]

In a battle between two of the top teams in the Eastern Conference on Monday night, the Detroit Pistons (13-6) picked up a huge 118-108 victory over the Boston Celtics (18-4) on the road. One of the Pistons’ players who made a return to TD Garden was guard Avery Bradley, who played his first seven […]

During his first three seasons in the league, Boston Celtics guard Marcus Smart has made a name for himself mainly as a defensive specialist. However on Monday, he proved to be more of a scorer as he made six shots from beyond the arc, to the surprise of Stan Van Gundy and the Detroit Pistons. […]

Stan Van Gundy is confident newly-acquired defensive ace Avery Bradley is here to stay. After acquiring the three-and-D talent from the Boston Celtics earlier this summer in exchange for Marcus Morris, the Detroit Pistons will have to look make a sound offer for one of the elite one-on-one defenders in the league and an improved […]

Detroit Pistons guard Avery Bradley is set to make his first appearance back in Boston after being traded for Marcus Morris this past offseason. Bradley spent his first seven seasons in the NBA with the Celtics, but with free agency looming this summer, he’s not yet ready to commit to seeing himself lasting that long […]

Unlike his former teammate Isaiah Thomas, Detroit Pistons shooting guard Avery Bradley isn’t resenting Boston Celtics president Danny Ainge for making deals in the offseason. Bradley was part of a swap for Marcus Morris, given the team’s improbability to sign him to a long-term contract after giving Gordon Hayward a whopping four-year, $128 million contract […]

Last Friday, the Detroit Pistons continued their strong start to the season, with another win on the road, this time against the Oklahoma City Thunder. It was the first time they won inside Chesapeake Energy Arena since acquiring their starting point guard, Reggie Jackson, which makes it even more meaningful for them. The 27-year-old Boston […]