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Detroit Pistons center Andre Drummond says he’s still going to work on his 3-point shot despite people saying he shouldn’t focus on that part of his game. Drummond has made 10 3-pointers in his NBA career, but the Pistons star has been working on improving his jump shot this summer. The two-time All-Star made six […]

Detroit Pistons center Andre Drummond has withdrawn from USA Basketball’s upcoming training camp in Las Vegas, the organization announced on Thursday. Drummond is one of 13 players who have thus far withdrawn from the activities this summer, along with rookie Zion Williamson, who withdrew consideration from Team USA’s Select Team that is slated to scrimmage […]

Team USA will look much different than the star-studded lineup USA Basketball expected to trot out ahead of this FIBA 2019 World Cup, which will take place at the end of August and into the middle of September. A total of 32 nations will take their aim at the gold this summer, but while the […]

NBA players are known to be big video gamers, and Detroit Pistons center Andre Drummond is no different than his peers. In fact, he told Tyler Erzberger of ESPN that he is a big fan of NASCAR games and Grand Theft Auto. However, when it comes to Fortnite, the best player he has seen is […]

Detroit Pistons All-Star center Andre Drummond is the best rebounder in the NBA and it’s not even close. This past season, Drummond grabbed 1,232 total rebounds, first in the NBA. The next player on the list was Utah Jazz big man Rudy Gobert, who had a total of 1,041 boards. The Pistons are fortunate to […]

Detroit Pistons All-Star big man Andre Drummond says he’s already worked out with point guard Derrick Rose, who signed a two-year deal with the Pistons in free agency. Drummond says Rose “looked great” in the workout session. On the ESPNU broadcast, #Pistons Andre Drummond said he worked out with Derrick Rose today — and Rose […]

Just give the rook some time in the spotlight! Seven-year NBA veteran Andre Drummond and Detroit Pistons teammate Bruce Brown Jr. interrupted second-year guard Khyri Thomas during a one-on-one interview with NBA TV. Thomas — who was soaking up an on-court interview after scoring a game-high 26 points against Croatia’s men’s basketball team in the […]

Despite only having relative success in the past couple of seasons, the Detroit Pistons are still looking to make the core of Blake Griffin, Andre Drummond and Reggie Jackson work. Pistons executive Ed Stefanski said that right now, Detroit is sticking on building around the trio, who led them to the playoffs last season only […]

Detroit Pistons center Andre Drummond will participate in the 2019 USA Basketball training camp in August. The four-day minicamp will take place from Aug. 5-8 under the tutelage of head coach Gregg Popovich, as Team USA will prepare to head to China from late August to mid-September for the FIBA World Cup. Drummond is one of four […]

Andre Drummond of the Detroit Pistons and LaMarcus Aldridge of the San Antonio Spurs will participate in USA Basketball’s training camp in August, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. San Antonio's LaMarcus Aldridge and Detroit's Andre Drummond will participate in the Team USA training camp in August, league sources tell ESPN. Team USA is putting together […]

The Detroit Pistons have the 15th overall pick of the 2019 NBA Draft, the first outside of the lottery. With this pick, Detroit is looking to fill in a void that has been a problem for the franchise over the past couple of years, as hinted by big man Andre Drummond. “I think we’re in […]

For veteran center Andre Drummond, former Detroit Pistons coach Stan Van Gundy is a good coach. However, he was not the right coach for the players he had when the team hired him in 2014. The Pistons relieved Van Gundy of his duties as the team’s coach and president of basketball operations last summer for […]

Detroit Pistons center Andre Drummond commends star power forward Blake Griffin for playing through a left knee injury in Games 3 and 4 of the playoffs against the Milwaukee Bucks. Griffin was clearly injured, but wanted to play and help the Pistons. Detroit got swept by the Bucks, but the Pistons fans and players showed […]

The New Orleans Pelicans were the biggest winners of the 2019 NBA Draft Lottery when they surprisingly won the first pick despite only having a six percent chance. Pelicans General Manager David Griffin is expected to select Zion Williamson from Duke University to the chagrin of the Phoenix Suns, New York Knicks, and Cleveland Cavaliers. […]

Game 3 between the Milwaukee Bucks and the Detroit Pistons almost broke into a fight when Sterling Brown and Andre Drummond got into each others’ faces. Fortunately, the Bucks have preventive measures in place in case things like these happen. Bucks assistant coach Taylor Jenkins was quick to his feet and hilariously jumped in front […]

Andre Drummond has sometimes failed to exert himself to maximum capacity throughout his career. In 2018-19, though, the Detroit Pistons big man put together perhaps the finest season of his career, and more consistent effort on a game-by-game basis was one of the biggest reasons why. But on Saturday against the Milwaukee Bucks, with his […]

The Detroit Pistons are playing with a chip on their shoulder. By record, they are the worst team in the 2019 playoffs, and virtually nobody expects them to win their first round match-up against the top-seeded Milwaukee Bucks. But early in Game 3, with Detroit already down 0-2 in the series, tensions between the two […]

The Detroit Pistons are down 0-2 against the Milwaukee Bucks in their first-round playoff series matchup, but that hasn’t stopped Andre Drummond from making his presence felt in the post. Drummond finished with 18 points and 16 rebounds in the loss, making him the first Pistons player in more than a decade to post at […]

Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo is one of the league’s top talents. The forward is in the midst of a career year and has a good chance of winning the Most Valuable Player award. Antetokounmpo is an excellent shooter and guarding him is no easy task. In fact, he thinks defenders are afraid of him […]

Detroit Pistons big man Andre Drummond had a historically bad outing in Sunday’s Game 1 loss to the Milwaukee Bucks. Drummond logged 26 minutes, notching 12 points on 4-of-9 shooting from the field, 12 rebounds, two assists and one steal. Those are fairly solid numbers. However, he also finished with a plus-minus rating of minus-45. […]

It was certainly an action-packed opening weekend for this season’s playoffs. There were a number of upsets as well as a fair amount of standout performances, but one of the most interesting statistics thus far is the number of ejections we witnessed in the first two days of playoff action. As pointed out by ESPN’s […]

Blake Griffin wasn’t buying his teammate Andre Drummond’s ejection late in the third quarter of Game 1 against the Milwaukee Bucks, as the Detroit Pistons lost their best scorer and rebounder with Griffin out to injury. Drummond pushed Giannis Antetokounmpo out of the play after he gathered an offensive rebound, warranting a Flagrant 2 call […]

Milwaukee Bucks superstar forward Giannis Antetokounmpo has his team playing high-level NBA basketball at the perfect time. Andre Drummond responded. How effective that response will be remains to be seen. With the Bucks rolling against the Detroit Pistons on Sunday evening, Milwaukee was well on its way to a 1-0 series lead in the Eastern Conference […]

For years, Andre Drummond was the sole engine of the Detroit Pistons. Around him was mismanagement; the free agent missteps (Josh Smith is still collecting checks!), the injuries to key players (most importantly: Reggie Jackson), and the whiffed lottery picks (Stanley Johnson, KCP, and Henry Ellenson), all of which Pistons fans grew all too wary of. […]

Andre Drummond of the Detroit Pistons figured that all Shaqtin’ A Fool has on him these days are failed stepback jumpers so the big man submitted his entry on what he’s usually good at – throwing it down. In what could have been the highlight of the game, Drummond was able to steal the ball […]

Andre Drummond broke into the league already boasting some shot-blocking chops, ones that only became more evident in the second and third year of his career, blocking close to two shots per game as a starter. Yet the fear of being part of the wrong end of a poster was a real one for the […]

In their 115-98 win over the Orlando Magic, Detroit Pistons head coach Dwane Casey admitted that he didn’t run a single play for Andre Drummond. Yet, the center still notched a monster double-double. Per the Associated Press via ESPN, Casey praised Drummond for creating his own results on the court. Casey confessed that he didn’t […]

Detroit Pistons center Andre Drummond has the fifth most games with at least 20 points and 20 rebounds since 1983, according to Basketball Reference. Drummond recorded his 32nd game with at least 20 points and 20 rebounds on Monday against the Cleveland Cavaliers. Only Dwight Howard, Charles Barkley, Hakeem Olajuwon and Shaquille O’Neal have registered more 20-20 […]

The Detroit Pistons have a knack for acquiring players with whom they feel possess the qualities of commitment and hard work. Andre Drummond fits the bill, and he’s proved it once again in his seventh season with the team. Drummond surpassed Dennis Rodman (another stalwart name in the Pistons’ franchise), breaking his single-season record for […]

Andre Drummond of the Detroit Pistons has forged his way into history for most seasons with 1,000 points, 1000 rebounds, 100 blocks, and 100 steals. Per the NBA, Drummond has tallied four consecutive seasons with 1,000 points and rebounds and 100 blocks and steals. For the season, the 25-year-old is averaging 17.4 points per game, 15.3 rebounds, […]

In a potential matchup that could take place in the first round of the Eastern Conference playoffs, the Detroit Pistons are once again fighting tooth-and-nail with the Toronto Raptors. Their Sunday afternoon game was one in which the Pistons’ Andre Drummond wanted to make a statement, win or lose, and he did just that by […]

Detroit Pistons center Andre Drummond and Memphis Grizzlies point guard Mike Conley have been named the NBA’s Players of the Week for Week 21. The #NBA Players of the Week for Week 21's action! East: @AndreDrummond of the @DetroitPistons West: @mconley11 of the @memgrizz pic.twitter.com/7mOWyo9j9M — NBA (@NBA) March 11, 2019 Both Drummond and Conley […]

Detroit Pistons big man Andre Drummond collected his 30th game with 15 points and 15 rebounds in Sunday’s 131-108 victory over the Chicago Bulls. According to NBA.com, the last player to record two consecutive seasons with 30 or more 15-point/15-rebound games was Kevin Garnett. Andre Drummond notched his league-leading 30th game with 15 PTS and […]

Detroit Pistons center Andre Drummond notched another 20-point, 20-rebound game in their game against the Chicago Bulls on Friday night, finishing with 20 points and a whopping 24 rebounds. With that, he now has 11 such games this season, which ties the second most 20-point, 20-rebound contests in a season in the past 35 years, […]

Detroit Pistons center Andrew Drummond will always be compared to the NBA’s other big men with long buckets in their arsenal, so you can’t fault the guy for trying to show that he too can hit shots well outside his normal range. Bleacher Report just exposed Drummond’s lack of rim depth awareness yet again with […]

Despite all he has done to bring forth the rise of the new era of the Detroit Pistons, a recent report appears to point to the fact that cornerstone big man Andre Drummond may not actually be as untouchable as most would assume. Vince Ellis of the Detroit Free Press points out that based on his […]

Detroit Pistons center Andre Drummond is on pace to lead the league in rebounding this season for the third time in the past four years. While the two-time All-Star has had some strong personal accolades early on in his career, what he really wants is to win, and he wants to do it as a […]

Andre Drummond of the Detroit Pistons is having one of the best seasons of his seven-year career. Despite being in the league since the 2012-13 season, Drummond is still only 25 years old, and he has blossomed into one of the game’s elite rebounders as well as the second-best player on a Detroit Pistons team […]

Believe it or not, this is already 25-year-old Andre Drummond’s seventh NBA season. It seems like it was yesterday that the Detroit Pistons selected the former University of Connecticut prospect ninth overall in the 2012 NBA Draft. At that time, Drummond’s strengths were clear: at a tick under seven feet tall, he was an athletic […]