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The NBA season carries on with a week six matchup between the Los Angeles Lakers and Detroit Pistons. Our NBA odds series continues with a Lakers-Pistons prediction and pick. Monday night’s game for the Los Angeles Lakers was a bittersweet moment. On the one hand, LeBron James broke Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s record for most minutes played in NBA […]

The Detroit Pistons have been struggling this season. They currently hold the worst record in the NBA at 2-12 and are on an 12 game losing streak after their recent 107-103 loss to the Denver Nuggets. Pistons young star Cade Cunningham didn’t hold back recently when talking about the Pistons disappointing start to the season. […]

There obviously is not much to change in the Boston Celtics system. Joe Mazzulla has been efficient in using his core of Jaylen Brown, Jayson Tatum, Jrue Holiday, and Kristaps Porzingis. They currently hold a nine-win record while only dropping two close games so far in the season. However, their depth in the big man […]

The Detroit Pistons have been one of the bottom teams in the league so far to start the 2023-24 season. They have a record of 2-8 are the worst team in the Eastern Conference this season. They have a promising young core but so far that core hasn’t been translating to wins. One of the […]

The Detroit Pistons may not have picked up a win over the Milwaukee Bucks on Wednesday night, falling just short by a score of 120-118, but they had an extremely encouraging outing that showed they can battle the best of them when they want to. A big reason they managed to hang with Milwaukee was […]

Detroit Pistons center Jalen Duren joined some rarified air on Saturday, when he accomplished a feat previously only achieved by LeBron James. In the Pistons’ 118-102 win over the Bulls on Saturday, Duren racked up a gaudy stat line: 23 points, 15 rebounds and five assists. The only other teenager to accomplish the feat? LeBron […]

We are less than two weeks away from the official tip-off of the 2023-24 NBA regular season. That means it is just about time for NBA fantasy enthusiasts to put on their GM hats and construct the team that will win them the bag in their respective leagues. Nikola Jokic, Luka Doncic, and Giannis Antetokounmpo […]

The Detroit Pistons were ready to take the next step last season. That is until Cade Cunningham underwent surgery on his left shin that prematurely ended his sophomore year 12 games into the campaign. As a result, Detroit finished with the league’s worst record at 17-65. To make matters worse, they didn’t even land the […]

The Detroit Pistons went for it. Once they ruled Cade Cunningham out for the season in November because of a shin injury, they sunk to the very bottom. They went all out for Victor Wembanyama. He was the franchise centerpiece they needed. They got the fifth pick instead. Oof. The Pistons missed out on Victor […]

The Detroit Pistons will enter the offseason with a lot of work ahead of them. They are now the NBA’s weakest club. They also have an imbalanced roster heavy on bigs and shallow on wings. Here we will look at the biggest roster need that the Detroit Pistons must definitely address in the coming 2023 […]

Miami Heat forward Kevin Love got involved in an ugly on-court incident on Sunday that left him bloodied and in need of stitches. Fortunately, he was fine after some treatment. Late in the third quarter of the game against the Detroit Pistons, Love attacked the basket and pulled off a pump fake to bait Jalen […]

Detroit Pistons rookie Jalen Duren showed the NBA he could be the next star in Motor City with a LeBron James-like performance on Friday against the San Antonio Spurs. Duren finished with a monster double-double of 30 points and 17 rebounds – both career highs – in their double-overtime victory over the Spurs. Making things […]

The Detroit Pistons have just crossed the pond and are now in France for Thursday’s game in Paris against the Chicago Bulls. However, rookie Jalen Duren was not able to join the team’s flight to the City of Light all because he lost his passport, per James L. Edwards III of The Athletic. Jalen Duren is […]

It looks like the Detroit Pistons didn’t have a disastrous 2022 NBA offseason after all. One good thing is that they didn’t use their available cap space on guys they weren’t very enthusiastic about. Instead, they accepted relatively bad contracts from the Knicks in exchange for draft assets. Detroit also picked up Jalen Duren and […]

The Detroit Pistons’ starting core is looking younger and younger after each offseason. Their expected 2022-2023 starting five has an average age of 21.4. One of the newest and youngest members of the squad, 18-year-old Jalen Duren, has high hopes for his team. According to the center out of Memphis, this young team has what […]

After the Sacramento Kings shocked the NBA by selecting Keegan Murray with the fourth pick in this year’s draft, it opened the door for the Detroit Pistons to pick Jaden Ivey out of Purdue at No. 5, who was considered the fourth-best prospect in this class, just behind the “big three” of Paolo Banchero, Chet […]

Though Jalen Rose is the most well-known Jalen to come out of Detroit, rookie Jalen Duren is out to make his own mark in the Motor City. The former Memphis Tiger just signed his rookie-scale deal with the Detroit Pistons on Thursday, and that has gotten fans quite excited. Duren averaged 12.0 points, 8.1 rebounds, […]

The New York Knicks had themselves an extremely busy 2022 NBA Draft. With so many trades happening at once, it was very tough to keep track of what they actually got done. Dishing out draft grades is possible now that they have completed all their trades. The Knicks made three trades on draft night that reshuffled […]

The 2022 NBA Draft has come and gone. Some teams left the draft with significant upgrades to their teams, while others dropped the ball completely. The Detroit Pistons had the fifth overall pick in the draft after falling a couple of spots in the lottery. So did the lottery results negatively affect the outcome? Or […]

When the Detroit Pistons traded Jerami Grant for a 2025 first-round pick and extra cap space, the assumption was they were going to make a big run at Deandre Ayton and perhaps other big names in free agency. However, after a slam-dunk draft night in which they came away with Jaden Ivey and Jalen Duren […]

The Charlotte Hornets entered the 2022 NBA Draft with a pair of picks in the first round at No. 13 and No. 15 overall. The Hornets traded away the 13th pick, Jalen Duren, in a three-way deal with the Detroit Pistons and New York Knicks. Duren was the consensus top-ranked center in the draft, but […]

The New York Knicks made waves during the 2022 NBA Draft for all the wrong reasons. And it was confusing to say the least. The Knicks originally acquired the draft rights to Jalen Duren out of Memphis. However, Duren was then flipped to Detroit along with Kemba Walker. They also dealt No. 11 overall pick […]

In today’s NBA, draft picks are like gold. The pool of young talent entering the league grows exponentially every season. With that in mind, even late first round or second round picks are sometimes considered more valuable than actual prospects. The Charlotte Hornets showed a glimpse of that mentality with Jalen Duren at the 2022 […]

Arguably the most physically imposing player in this class is officially off the board. Memphis center Jaren Duren was taken No. 13 overall by the Detroit Pistons on Thursday in the 2022 NBA Draft after a complicated trade went down. After being taken by the Charlotte Hornets, Duren was traded to the New York Knicks. […]

With the draft quickly approaching, the Charlotte Hornets have their work cut out for them. Yes, they have to figure out which two young pieces they will add to their team, but they also have to figure out who their coach will be & what they will do to secure Miles Bridges. One step at […]

The Charlotte Hornets have two first-round picks in the 2022 NBA Draft. With the 13th and 15th overall selections, they have tons of room to operate and potential trades to do. The way that Charlotte is looking to operate is dependent on the results of their two play-in game performances: blowout losses. It’s something that […]

The Washington Wizards drew the 10th pick in the 2022 NBA Draft Lottery. After another middling season, they are looking for ways to become a strong team again. Simply put, the Wizards need talent. It doesn’t matter what position they can find it at. They just need a high-level player to give them some sort […]

With the NCAA Basketball season over, the focus for many in the world of college basketball will shift to the 2022 NBA Draft, where some of the nation’s finest prospects will enter the draft to begin their professional careers. One such prospect is Memphis Tigers star center Jalen Duren, who announced his intention to enter […]

The San Antonio Spurs are in a position that is historically very odd for them. For a team that won five titles and made the playoffs 47 times in their 55-year history, being in the lottery must be incredibly strange. Yet, the Spurs have been in the lottery the last two years and will likely […]

The New York Knicks looked like they were finally heading in the right direction after finishing fourth in the Eastern Conference last season. Despite their team being eliminated by the Atlanta Hawks in the first round of the playoffs, Knicks fans remained optimistic heading into 2021-22 because they were able to retain their core while […]