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Detroit Pistons center Andre Drummond was asked to choose his ideal pickup player, and the big man had very little hesitation to point out the man for the job — Golden State Warriors forward Kevin Durant. “He’s very fun to watch and play with… I think he’s very unguardable,” Drummond said in a quick interview […]

The Detroit Pistons are tired of losing. After securing a playoff spot in the 2015-16 postseason led by the pick-and-roll pairing of Reggie Jackson and Andre Drummond, the Pistons have fallen short of the playoffs in consecutive seasons. These shortcomings led to a multitude of changes in the Motor City. Those adjustments began at the […]

Things can get pretty crazy in an NBA locker room. In fact, it appears that Andre Drummond and Spencer Dinwiddie took locker room antics to another level when they were in Detroit together. According to SB Nation’s Kristian Winfield, the big man once taped Dinwiddie to a chair and put him in a cold shower. […]

Teams are preparing and gearing up as the new NBA season quickly approaches. Everybody will have eyes on the prize, the chance to be called NBA champion. Although not all teams are on a path to greatness this season, there will be real contenders and some pretenders. I’ll be excluding teams who have made their […]

The new NBA 2K season is almost upon us, and fans are already talking about the new overall ratings of the players. Recently, Detroit Pistons forward Blake Griffin was handed his rating for the 2019 version of the game and it proved to be lower than usual. Bleacher Report posted a screenshot of his teammate Andre […]

It has become commonplace to see NBA players take up rapping as a hobby.  Lonzo Ball, Damian Lillard, Metta World Peace, and Kobe Bryant have all tried their hand in the rap game, just to name a few. After the release of his EP titled “For Your Information”, you can now add Andre Drummond to […]

As far as surprise birthday greetings go, Stanley Johnson’s recent gesture to Detroit Pistons teammate Andre Drummond is one for the record books. Drummond turned 25 on Friday, and Johnson made sure that he would have one of the most unforgettable birthday mornings of his life. Johnson decided to take the entire Pistons Drumline to […]

Andre Drummond has joined the bandwagon. The Detroit Pistons star did the “In My Feelings” challenge but with a twist. Below is a clip of Drummond doing the dance challenge sans a moving car: 😂 @AndreDrummond does the #InMyFeelingsChallenge with #JrNBAWorldChampionship players! pic.twitter.com/Am1rmEACfz — Jr. NBA (@jrnba) August 5, 2018 The “In My Feelings” challenge […]

When you dunk on an all-star caliber player like Andre Drummond, not only does it prove that you have hops, but you have the fearless aggression as well. Derrick Jones Jr. of the Miami Heat did just that, and it brought the whole crowd to a frenzy. Below is the clip as posted by Thanis […]

Andre Drummond has been working on his 3-point shooting during this summer, recently showing it during a 3-point contest with Detroit Pistons teammate Blake Griffin during USA Basketball’s minicamp in Las Vegas. While seeing two big men in a shootout might have seemed rather comical compared to the one-on-one wars between Paul George, Kevin Durant, […]

Team USA’s minicamp wasn’t short of one-on-one battles between established and up-and-coming stars of the league, but as the likes of Kevin Durant, Devin Booker, and Paul George traded buckets on ferocious mano-a-mano wars post-scrimmage — others worked in a less visible acumen. Detroit Pistons center Andre Drummond and power forward Blake Griffin traded step-back […]

There is standing up for your teammates and then there is just making crazy claims and that is what Pistons center Andre Drummond is doing. An Instagram user posted a comment saying “Jaylen Brown is what the Pistons thought Stanely was gonna be lol.” Drummond agreed to that (kind of) saying “exactly….Stanley is better.” There is […]

If Oklahoma City Thunder teammates Russell Westbrook and Steven Adams weren’t in the same team, would the latter lead the NBA in rebounds? Andre Drummond of the Detroit Pistons doesn’t believe so. ProCity Hoops offered the hypothetical question to its followers. One of which is Drummond who sent out a quick reply: Agree or disagree? […]

Detroit Pistons big man Andre Drummond is not only working on his basketball game this offseason but also appears to be refining his rapping skills as well. In an interview with TMZ Sports, the 24-year-old named his All-NBA hip-hop dream team, saying that collaboration between himself and the likes of Kevin Durant would be something […]

The Detroit Pistons are in the midst of a nasty case of deja vu. This summer, like last, the Pistons are coming of a disappointing campaign, largely due to the injury-induced struggles of point guard Reggie Jackson. The acquisition of the point guard propelled this latest Pistons runs, his decline might end it. A year […]

The Detroit Pistons have recently arranged for Kevin Garnett to work with center Andre Drummond and forward Henry Ellenson behind closed doors, according to Marc Stein of The New York Times. Garnett has been known to elevate some of the NBA’s big men on the rise, doing so during his last year in the league […]

The Detriot Pistons have constructed a frontcourt duo with their All-Star duo of Andre Drummond and Blake Griffin leading the charge for the franchise. The two have played less than a season together in Detriot, but Griffin has quickly realized that Drummond is a highly unique talent on the glass, according to Rod Beard of […]

The list of players in the E3 Pro-Am Fortnite tournament has been released, and it features five NBA players led by Paul George. As posted by Austin Goslin of Polygon, below is a list of the NBA players and their respective teammate: Myth and Paul George Gizzorz and Reggie Jackson Sssniperwolf and Terrence Ross Nickmercs and […]

Nicknames are sometimes a way of expressing fondness or adoration for someone, as well as a candid way of simply finding amusement in clowning someone based on their traits. The way the nickname strikes a chord with others shows how much adoration, amusement or awe that the person instills in others. In the NBA, there […]

The Detroit Pistons find themselves in dire straits heading into the 2018 offseason. Despite trading for Blake Griffin in January, the Pistons still finished under .500 and missed the playoffs for the eighth time in the past nine seasons. and haven’t won a single playoff game since the 2007-08 season. After the Pistons’ disappointing finish […]

The Phoenix Suns were the big winners of last week’s 2018 NBA Draft Lottery when they were announced to have won the right to select the first overall pick. There’s no question that the Suns are the envy of just about every NBA team these days, as they have the luxury of picking the best […]

Perhaps in an effort not to be left behind by how the game evolves, Andre Drummond of the Detroit Pistons has added a new move to his offensive game: a step-back jumper. Drummond himself posted on his Twitter account a video of him draining a contested step-back jumper, warning opponents in the process: It’s gonna […]

In a statement on Monday afternoon, the Detroit Pistons announced that they are moving on from Stan Van Gundy and will start immediately to find a new coach and general manager. “We have decided that this change is necessary to take our basketball organization to the next level,” Pistons owner Tom Gores said in a […]

Stan Van Gundy’s firing is slated to play a major role in the building of the Detroit Pistons, but the former has also been responsible for building some of these players into who they are today. Center Andre Drummond expressed his gratitude with a tweet shortly after the news went viral. Would like to take […]

NBA players take on hobbies outside of basketball when they aren’t traveling or putting in work on the court on any given night during the season. The long nights don’t end because many of them find other activities that keep them occupied throughout the night. For many of them, that comes in the form of […]

With Andre Drummond officially out for Wednesday night’s season finale against the Chicago Bulls because of an Achilles injury, his season is over and his stats are set in stone. #Pistons Andre Drummond, Blake Griffin and Dwight Buycks are out tonight vs. #Bulls. — Rod Beard (@detnewsRodBeard) April 11, 2018 He had an impressive year, but […]

The Detroit Pistons are bound to finish yet another disappointing season, out of the playoffs for the third time in Stan Van Gundy’s four-year run as head coach and president of basketball operations. Yet the emergence of Reggie Bullock, along with the health of a different Reggie Jackson are enough to give star forward Blake […]

Detroit Pistons center Andre Drummond was fined $15,000 and Brooklyn Nets forward Quincy Acy was fined $25,000 for an altercation during Sunday’s game at the Barclays Center, according to Shams Charania of Yahoo Sports. The two big men got into it during the last few seconds of the third quarter, as Detroit sported a 13-point […]

The Brooklyn Nets’ loss to the Detroit Pistons on Sunday night turned sour as the game got testier, trailing 13 points in the final seconds of the third quarter when enforcer Quincy Acy and All-Star center Andre Drummond got into a heated altercation. In fact, Acy even made inadvertent contact with a referee, and both players […]

Anthony Joshua unified the heavyweight titles with a unanimous decision win over Joseph Parker on Saturday in a match that did not live up to the hype in terms of action. Andre Drummond and Quincy Acy tried to top that bout on the basketball court, but that, too, looked more pathetic than exciting. Drummond and […]

Detroit Pistons center Andre Drummond has been one of the most promising, young big men in the league for a while now. After a slow start, though, things finally seem to be clicking on all cylinders for Drummond in the 2017-18 NBA season. Aside from being arguably one of the league’s best rebounders, he is also […]

With yet another 20-plus rebound performance last night for Detroit Pistons star center Andre Drummond against the Houston Rockets, he now is just one game shy of tying former Pistons great Ben Wallace’s NBA single-season record. According to Stat Muse/ Basketball Reference’s Justin Kubatko, Drummond inched even closer to etching his name next to Wallace […]

Detroit Pistons center Andre Drummond can be added to the ever-growing list of players who find playing video games as a hobby and a great way to spend their free time away from the game to relax. Drummond was introduced to a new game, Fortnite by his teammate Reggie Jackson and he claims to have […]

Fortnite is the latest craze to take over the video game world, and evidently, it has also taken over the NBA world too, and some NBA stars are playing late into the night trying to get that one win. Leo Sepkowitz of Bleacher Report recently caught up with some NBA stars to talk about their […]

Andre Drummond has turned into one of the best big men in the league, and even though the Detroit Pistons haven’t had the type of season they were hoping for, he has had another exceptional year. He has played 68 games so far this year and in those games, he has averaged 14.8 points and […]

Since coming into the league, Andre Drummond has been known as a guy who gets the ball in the post, does a post move and finishes. Not only has he succeeded in becoming one of the best post scorers in the league, he is also one of the better defenders in the low post. There are […]

The Detroit Pistons are fighting for a playoff spot, but they currently sit in 9th place in the standings, 2.5 games back of the Miami Heat who sit in the eighth spot. If they keep losing games like they did on Sunday though, they will be falling even farther off the pace. They took on the Charlotte […]

In recent years, NBA players’ heights have been a common topic of discussion. There are players that make believe they are taller than they actually are, like Draymond Green, or cases where a player is listed shorter than his true height, like Kevin Durant. Add Andre Drummond to the list, as he apparently is shorter […]

After an encouraging five-game winning streak, the Detroit Pistons are back on the losing column. They have now dropped three-straight, while also allowing 118 points in each of the last two. In Monday night’s 118-103 loss to the New Orleans Pelicans, the team’s defensive effort hit one of its lowest points of the season. Along […]