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A game between the Detroit Pistons and Houston Rockets should have more juice. It should be a matchup between Cade Cunningham and Jalen Green, the top picks in the 2021 NBA Draft. It should be a game of up-and-coming teams, emerging from the depths of terribleness, that people actually want to watch. Instead, it’s the

The Pistons Pulse is brought to you by The Detroit Free Press and is co hosted by Bryce Simon of MotorCityHoops and Omari Sankofa II, Detroit Pistons beat writer for The Detroit Free Press. Omari and I are excited to announce that for our 50th episode of The Pistons Pulse we will have a live

Int he NBA, you’re not as bad, or good, as you looked the previous night. Every team wins in this league. Some (a lot) more than others but, over an 82-game season, you’re going to see good teams beat up on bad teams, and then bad teams surprise some good ones and beat ‘em. Sound

The Detroit Pistons will make their fourth trip to New York on the season for their second meeting with the Brooklyn Nets. The team from the Motor City enter the night looking to make amends for their pitiful 150-130 shellacking at the hands of the Milwaukee Bucks on Monday night. After giving up a season-high

National games are when Pistons fans, dying of thirst wandering the desert of irrelevance, can finally witness some quality basketball. Is that the case tonight? Well, even a game that is potentially missing both Joel Embiid and Kevin Durant will serve up much more talent than the Pistons can throw on the floor. Durant, of

The Pistons Pulse is brought to you by The Detroit Free Press and is co hosted by Bryce Simon of MotorCityHoops and Omari Sankofa II, Detroit Pistons beat writer for The Detroit Free Press. Omari and I are honored to be joined this week by the amazing Keith Smith of spotrac, CelticsBlog and the Front

The Milwaukee Bucks are great. The Detroit Pistons are bad. Traveling home from Paris was hard. Killian Hayes and Isaiah Stewart were hurt. But the Pistons’ early effort in their 150-130 shellacking on Monday was unacceptable. There’s only one place to begin: the beginning of this god forsaken game. The Pistons, playing for the first

The Detroit Pistons are a bad team and no deal at the NBA Trade Deadline is going to change its season. The Pistons are also in year three of a rebuild, and I don’t think any deal would appreciably change their long-term outlook. They’re going to have a high pick in a seemingly loaded 2023

As the NBA calendar edges closer to the league’s unofficial turning point—All-Star Weekend—the Detroit Pistons once again find themselves toiling in the basement of the standings. The Pistons currently have the second-worst record in the NBA, with only the 10-win Houston Rockets below them in the standings. As demoralizing as watching back-to-back-to-back 20-win seasons has

I am sure the Pistons had a great time in Paris, but everybody watching that game did not have a great time. They were blown out by the Bulls in front of Killian Hayes’ friends and family. They now return home after only playing that one game last week to face a Milwaukee Bucks team

Hey everyone! This is Laz Jackson of Detroit Bad Boys, and on this week’s podcast, Ben Gulker and I talk about your 12-36 Detroit Pistons. It’s a mailbag episode, so Ben and I answer your questions about Bojan Bogdanovic’s trade market, what this team is capable of defensively, and what to do with Wemby if

Killian Hayes has taken a step forward this season with his overall offensive production. Whether that is to a satisfactory level is still a debate but the improvement is undeniable. In a small uptick of minutes per game, Hayes has improved his points per game and assists per game while keeping his turnovers at just

The final stretch of yet another dismal Detroit Pistons season is upon us. It’s been a tough watch at times — ok, lots of times — this season as the Pistons have sunk once again into the bottom of the standings. On one hand, that has put them in position to tank their way into

When the highlight of your game was a photo of your general manager getting a good long look at Victor Wembanyama, you know it didn’t go your way. Pretty definitively, nothing went the Detroit Pistons’ way in their 126-108 loss to the Chicago Bulls in Paris. It’s not that the Detroit Pistons wilted in the

The Detroit Pistons season hasn’t quite gone to plan, to put it mildly. A never-ending injury report has plagued the roster for much of the season, with coach Dwane Casey only having a fully outfitted roster on a handful of occasions. With injuries come inconsistency, and inconsistency quickly becomes instability, and that is a recipe

The Detroit Pistons play host the Chicago Bulls this later today, however, this won’t be you’re typical 7:30 p.m. tip-off at Little Caesars Arena. Instead, this afternoon’s contest will be played more than 4,000 miles away in Paris, France. While the NBA has allowed each team as much rest time possible to combat the travel—the

We’ve hit a somewhat sluggish point in the NBA season as All-Star ballots are released and the outlook of most teams have become clearer. For the Pistons — you can call it déjà vu— but their playoff hopes have been slashed before the new year even began. For NBA Draft junkies, that means it’s another

The Detroit Pistons appear to be on a crash course for another top-5 pick in the NBA Draft. If the ping-pong balls fall the Pistons’ way, the team will be rewarded with a potentially generational talent in Victor Wembanyama. But what if the Pistons get the No. 2 overall pick? Victor Wembanyama is one of

The Detroit Pistons were hopeful that starting center Jalen Duren would be available for Thursday’s game against the Chicago Bulls being played in France after the rookie sat the previous five games with an ankle injury. One big problem — Duren isn’t in France with the Pistons. It seems that the 19-year-old rookie lost his

The Pistons Pulse is brought to you by The Detroit Free Press and is co hosted by Bryce Simon of MotorCityHoops and Omari Sankofa II, Detroit Pistons beat writer for The Detroit Free Press. Omari and I take a look at the past week’s slate of games for the Detroit Pistons that started out with