Andre Drummond

There is never a good time for an NBA player to get injured, but Kentavious Caldwell-Pope’s groin injury comes at an especially unideal juncture. The 22-year-old wing injured his groin in the Detroit Pistons’ Wednesday night loss to the Boston Celtics and, per the Associated Press’ Dave Hogg (h/t Bleacher Report), is expected to miss [...]

Meet those who will revive the NBA dunk contest. Or something. Sources gave Cleveland.com’s Chris Haynes a preview of next Saturday’s dunk-contest lineup, and he was kind enough to share his intel: The field for the NBA Slam Dunk Contest scheduled for Feb. 13 in Toronto is set, according to league sources. The defending champion [...]

Jodie Meeks won’t be taking the floor with the Detroit Pistons anytime soon. The 28-year-old guard hasn’t played since October 28 as he continues to recover from a broken right foot. And now, when it appeared that he might be nearing a return, Meeks must shut it down, per MLive.com’s David Mayo: Jodie Meeks’ fears [...]

The video consists of watching Andre Drummond work out, play video games, go bowling, and basically humanize the Detroit Pistons big man in a way that Cassy Athena has become known for through the Thru The Lens series. With an additional 20 episodes in the archive and in its second season, Thru The Lens quickly [...]

The Rockets-Pistons battle last night was not only highly entertaining and featured some classic performances but was also very bizarre. The Rockets trailed the Pistons by nine at halftime and employed the highly controversial “Hack-A-(insert player name)” strategy to new levels when fouling Drummond during the third quarter. They started seldom used second-year small forward [...]

Stephen Curry update: Stephen Curry is still really good. Really, really good. So good that he’s used the Golden State Warriors’ first eight games as his own personal plaything—a stage on which he has humiliated defenses, torched twine, made twenty-point quarters a regularity and, above all else, put the NBA’s early season MVP race in [...]

When previewing the 2015-16 NBA season, all of us basketball fans had a terrific handle on what to expect from the Eastern Conference. Nine teams were reasonable playoff contenders and anyone else would be a stretch. Seven games into the campaign, Andre Drummond and the Detroit Pistons have demanded a place in the discussion. It’s [...]

The Detroit Pistons and Andre Drummond are taking a page out of the San Antonio Spurs and Kawhi Leonard’s book. Drummond is up for a contract extension, one that will adhere to the exploding cap. Negotiations were thought to be ongoing with some even thinking the Pistons and their young behemoth would hammer out a [...]

Andre Drummond is lit. The NBA released its 2015-16 schedule on Wednesday, much to the displeasure of the Detroit Pistons big man: 20 back to back games ….. No national televised games….. Cool — Andre Drummond (@AndreDrummondd) August 12, 2015 Welp. If it makes Drummond feel better, the Los Angeles Lakers only make 19 nationally [...]

Andre Drummond will earn almost $3.3 million next season, his fourth, which is not insubstantial. It’s just going to look like chump change compared to what he’ll earn in 2016-17. The almost-22-year-old is eligible to sign an extension with the Detroit Pistons. If he doesn’t ink one, he’ll become a restricted free agent next summer. [...]