Detroit Bad Boys

Few would disagree that Josh Jackson hasn’t quite met the expectations many had for the former fourth overall pick coming out of college. The former Jayhawk struggled to live up to these lofty expectations during his first two years with the Phoenix Suns. Jackson was then given a chance to restore his reputation in 22

Trey Lyles was a shockingly divisive signing for the Detroit Pistons in the offseason. He earned the kind of vitriol not usually becoming of a completely marginal, completely acceptable bench player who has knocked around the league for six years. Partly, the problem is that he’s had ample opportunity with some good franchises and good

Sekou Doumbouya has found a new home with the Los Angeles Lakers after being jettisoned by the Detroit Pistons and Brooklyn Nets this offseason. Doumbouya is progressing toward a two-way deal with the injury-plagued Lakers, according to Shams Charania of The Athletic. Injuries were always going to be a concern for the veteran-laden Lakers team,

Saben Lee is a really intriguing player at this stage of his career. Drafted with the 38th pick in the 2020 NBA draft, he signed a three-year, $5 million deal this offseason, making him a fully ensconced part of the plan in Detroit. That plan, for 2021 at least, probably won’t really factor him in

Isaiah Livers is a 6-foot-7, 230-pound forward coming out of the University of Michigan. A four-year player in Ann Arbor, he saved his best season for last, posting career-highs in points, rebounds, assists, and three-point percentage. That last one is particularly impressive since Livers was always a good three-point shooter—which is what most Pistons fans

The MotorCityHoops Podcast is joined by Jordan Lederman (@PistonsThoughts) to take a look at the first two preseason games for the Pistons. Not only do we breakdown and analyze what we saw from these games, but also take a look at what it means for the regular season. Saddiq Bey’s aggressiveness, Jerami Grant’s progression, Kelly

Isaiah Stewart getting his second foul of the night 1:17 into this game was a pretty good indicator of how things were going to go in Memphis. Just like in Saturday’s scrimmage, the starters struggled in this game. I wouldn’t start waving the panic flag yet since Cade Cunningham hasn’t played, but I would keep

The Detroit Pistons face off against what could be considered a solid model of a rebuilding franchise in the Memphis Grizzlies. The Grizz made the painful decision to rebuild and say goodbye to the Grit and Grind era years ago, but they haven’t had too many missteps along their path back toward relevancy. They hit

I’m not sure how often a second-round pick achieves cult status after a handful of Summer League games, but it certainly happened with Detroit Pistons fans and Luka Garza. The myth of Garza is a witch’s brew of being one of the most dominant players in college for several years, Garza losing a bunch of

Hey everyone. This is Laz Jackson of Detroit Bad Boys, and on this week’s episode we’re talking about your Detroit Pistons. Ben Gulker and I talk about Ben Wallace joining the front office, what we liked and didn’t like about the Pistons’ first preseason game against the Spurs, and we get Ben’s live reaction to

What can you say about Rodney McGruder? No, seriously, help me out. What is there to say? It’s tough to preview McGruder because in an ideal scenario, he has almost no impact in Detroit’s 82-game season. He was re-signed by Troy Weaver in a surprise offseason move because Weaver and the Pistons organization was seeking

Instead of spending a beautiful Saturday in October outside, I went to Little Caesars Arena for the Pistons open practice. It is hard to make any clear evaluations from an hour and a half practice and team scrimmage, there were a few interesting things to me. Practice started out with a message to the crowd

Ben Wallace is formally joining the Detroit Pistons front office as a basketball operations and team engagement advisor, the team announced Friday. Wallace has been a mainstay with the Pistons in recent months including representing the team at the NBA Draft Lottery that netted them the No. 1 overall pick and eventually Cade Cunningham. He

Deeeeeetroit Basketball is back!!!! (kind of). We may not have seen Cade Cunningham, Killian Hayes or even Frank Jackson last night, but we did get our first taste of what the 2021-22 Detroit Pistons might look like. As everyone might expect there were positives and negatives, but it is always good to come away with

Will Bynum, a one-time fan favorite point guard during some lean years for Detroit Pistons basketball, is one of 18 former NBA players indicted in federal court for allegedly bilking the NBA of nearly $4 million in health-insurance fraud. Other NBA stars involved in the plot include a former training camp invite of the Detroit

Detroit’s presumed starting backcourt Cade Cunningham and Killian Hayes were both out with injuries, but the rest of the roster supplied plenty of fireworks in a 115-105 win over the San Antonio Spurs on Wednesday at Little Caesars Arena. The new-look Pistons played on a new-look court and had spurts of explosive offense punctuated by

It’s going to be a long season for the Detroit Pistons. But it may not be all bad. The Pistons have an enviable young core for the first time in decades. There are going to be a lot of losses, but it’s going to be fun. I think. Anyway. Zach Lowe of ESPN recently put

Sekou Doumbouya has gone from the 15th overall pick and the youngest player in his draft class in 2019 to given up by three franchises, including two early in the rebuilding process in just over a month. After the Pistons shipped Sekou to Brooklyn as part of a DeAndre Jordan salary dump that netted Detroit

The Detroit Pistons are just over one year into a major rebuild that has seen Troy Weaver gut the entire roster, but in that short time, he is making moves that are giving league executives reason to believe. Every year, the league sends the league’s GM an anonymous survey on various topics, and for the

Since the moment the Detroit Pistons won the NBA Draft Lottery and Pistons legend Ben Wallace wagged his index finger, fans have been eagerly anticipating the first game of Cade Cunningham in a Pistons uniform. Well, you’re just going to have to wait a little bit longer. Cunningham, who has been nursing a sore ankle