Detroit Bad Boys

It’s hard to pinpoint what exactly has ailed Saddiq Bey this season. This, after all, is the same guy who scored 51 points against the Orlando Magic last season. It’s not as if the Detroit Pistons forward forgot how to shoot as the first quarter of the NBA season wraps up. Bey has been bad

Detroit Pistons guard Cade Cunningham has decided to have season-ending surgery on his ailing left shin, according to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN. The former No. 1 overall pick has missed Detroit’s past 17 games as he tried to rest and strengthen the shin, but after consultation with several doctors in recent weeks decided the best

Bojan Bogdanovic couldn’t have picked a better time to score a season-high 38 points and sink six three-pointers. The sharp-shooting forward showed his elite shooting prowess against the Los Angeles Lakers (in a game the Detroit Pistons ultimately loss), and a new report indicates the Lakers are interested in trading for Bogdanovic as they look

Hey everyone! This is Laz Jackson of Detroit Bad Boys, and on this week’s podcast, Ben Gulker and I talk about your 7-21 Detroit Pistons. We talk about Jaden Ivey’s struggles since his return to the roster, Isaiah Stewart’s jump in development enabling Jalen Duren to enter the the starting lineup, and the vets buoying

LeBron James and Anthony Davis combined for 69 points, but it was the dagger 3 from Austin Reaves to deliver the Los Angeles Lakers a 124-117 win over the Detroit Pistons. Detroit was able to stay in the game thanks to an absolutely white hot performance from Bojan Bogdanovic, who scored a season-ighigh 38 points

Each of the Pistons and Lakers enter tonight looking to snap losing streaks. Detroit return home from a brief 3-game road trip where they won their first game in Miami, before dropping two straight in New Orleans and Memphis. After a 2-10 start, the Lakers clawed their way back to a 10-12 record, before losing

Jalen Duren got his first start of the season…and it didn’t really make a difference. Just like the last game against the Memphis Grizzlies, the Pistons got off to a slow start in the 1st. Killian Hayes had 2 fouls less than 2 minutes into the game and nobody could make any shots They had

Former Purdue Boilermaker and No. 5 overall pick Jaden Ivey has been everything the Detroit Pistons could have hoped for through the first 23 games of his rookie season. The 6-foot-4 guard is averaging 15.5 points per game, good for 3rd amongst all rookies behind only No. 1 overall pick Paolo Banchero and Indiana Pacers

For the second time in a calendar week, the Detroit Pistons will match up against the streaking Memphis Grizzlies, who are have won four straight games and now sit just a half game back of the New Orleans Pelicans for first place in the Western Conference. The Grizzlies have started to play their best basketball

The Pistons fought, clawed, and almost produced their most impressive come-back win of the season. Almost. Detroit eventually bowed out 104-98 to the New Orleans Pelicans, who have now won five straight, but they gave the Western Conference’s second place team all they could handle in the process. It was the second night of a

Fresh off a dominant second-half display against the Miami Heat, the the Detroit Pistons travel to New Orleans to face Zion Williamson and the Pelicans. The Pistons will play their second game in as many nights while the well rested Pelicans will play their first game since a convincing 121-106 victory over the Denver Nuggets

Whenever Tyler Herro faces the Detroit Pistons, he looks like more like a superhero. The Miami Heat guard has grown from savvy scorer to elite bench scorer into one of the best backcourt scorers, period, in the NBA. His production is always amplified when Heat star Jimmy Butler is out, as he was Tuesday against

The Detroit Pistons are playing a struggling Miami Heat team today, but there are two more games on the NBA schedule and they are both slated for TNT. First, the Cleveland Cavaliers, which currently hold the third-best record in the East, face a Los Angeles Lakers team with a little bit of a pulse. LeBron

Both the Detroit Pistons and Miami Heat enter this game off of losses to the Grizzlies. For the Heat, it was the second quarter that killed them against the Grizzlies, while it was a poor first quarter that doomed the Pistons. With both teams looking to bounce back, it is clear that a better first

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Hey everyone! This is Laz Jackson of Detroit Bad Boys, and on this week’s podcast, Ben Gulker and I talk about your 6-18 Detroit Pistons. We talk about Killian Hayes outdueling Luka Doncic as the entire NBA Universe looked on, Marvin Bagley finding his stride offensively, and the Pistons’ struggles at the free throw line.

There’s one constant with bad basketball teams. No matter how they’ve played recently, some nights, they surprise you. That’s really the best way to describe the Detroit Pistons overtime win over the Dallas Mavericks on Thursday. Killian Hayes had one of his best games ever as the Pistons pulled out a rare win against a

After concluding a long Western Conference road trip last week, the Pistons are back to facing Western Conference teams, this time at home. The Pistons won a thriller over the Dallas Mavericks on Thursday, so they will be looking to do the same against a better Grizzlies team. The Grizzlies are coming off a win

What a past few weeks it has been for the third-year guard and former No. 7 overall pick, Killian Hayes! If we use the Detroit Pistons game vs the Boston Celtics on Nov. 9 as the starting point for his ascension, that tracks a 13-game sample size. [Editor’s Note: This piece was written before Killian

This could go down as The Killian Hayes game. The latest in a string of strong, confident performances from the Detroit Pistons’ third-year guard was not only the best game of Killian’s career, it featured him taking control of the game late, hitting huge shots in overtime and playing strong defense against the NBA’s most