Pistons

The Detroit Pistons came out hot to start the season, winning 14 of their first 20 games and looking like a top tier team in the eastern conference. Things have gone south over the past month and a half as the Pistons are now 22-20 and clinging to a playoff spot. There have been rumors [...]

The Detroit Pistons are heavily invested in winning now. That much is certain following the latest rumor dump from ESPN.com’s Adrian Wojnarowski. He paints the Pistons as fervid buyers, an approach that’s even led them to discuss Evan Fournier’s availability with the Orlando Magic: Detroit pursued a deal for Fournier, but that would’ve been hard [...]

Detroit Pistons head coach and president Stan Van Gundy stands with professional athletes who don’t stand during the national anthem. And he most definitely stands with those who have embraced other forms of protests in recent months. Van Gundy penned a piece for Time magazine, wherein he praised pro athletes for using their voices and expressing [...]

Well, those Eric Bledsoe-for-Reggie Jackson rumors certainly didn’t last long. They started on Thursday afternoon, with The New York Times‘ Marc Stein noting the Detroit Pistons could have interest in striking a deal for Bledsoe: [tweet https://twitter.com/TheSteinLine/status/926121458438496256] [tweet https://twitter.com/TheSteinLine/status/926122277179133952] Soon after that, Basketball Insiders’ Michael Scotto brought word that the Pistons had delivered an official offer [...]

Magic Johnson was a wanted man long before he became the Los Angeles Lakers’ team president. During a recent interview on ESPN’s First Take, the 58-year-old Hall of Famer revealed that he fielded job offers from teams like the Detroit Pistons and Golden State Warriors, in addition to perhaps the New York Knicks. Here’s the video [...]

Will Reggie Jackson be available when the Detroit Pistons open training camp? Yes. Will he be a full go at practices? Apparently not. According to the Detroit Free Press‘ Vince Ellis, the 27-year-old point guard isn’t yet all the way back from the left knee injury that derailed his 2016-17 campaign: It’s all about ensuring Jackson, [...]

Even now, more than a month after the Detroit Pistons started the NBA’s free-agency period wheeling and dealing, their offseason feels weird, and unsettling, and potentially awful. They hard-capped themselves on July 1—July 1!—by using a bulk of the mid-level exception on Langston Galloway. They flipped Marcus Morris’ two-year, $10.4 million commitment for Avery Bradley’s [...]

The Boston Celtics needed to shed some salary in order to sign Gordon Hayward to the four-year, $128 million contract that he agreed to Tuesday. The rumor for a while was that the Celtics and Jazz would conduct a sign-and-trade for Hayward and Jae Crowder to give some salary back to the Jazz, but those [...]

The Detroit Pistons are still looking to shake things up. According to Basketball Insiders’ Michael Scotto, after brief stays on the trade block ahead of February’s trade deadline, Andre Drummond and Reggie Jackson are back up for grabs: [tweet https://twitter.com/MikeAScotto/status/872941126981963776] Detroit has too many ball-dominant players who aren’t accomplished shooters, so this isn’t surprising. Re-signing [...]

Desperate situations call for exceptional measures, and Pistons head coach and president Stan Van Gundy appears to be shooting his shot. Van Gundy isn’t one to rush the process by trading away first-round picks, at least not impulsively or in excess. But according to NBA Insider Marc Stein, he’s open to moving his team’s lottery [...]