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Troy Weaver doesn’t like to sit still. On Friday, he made another move in his effort to ‘restore’ the Detroit Pistons. Svi Mykhailiuk, the longest-tenured Piston with two years, one month and six days with the club, was dealt with a second-round pick to Oklahoma City Thunder for 22-year-old Hamidou Diallo. The move means Detroit

The San Antonio Spurs have been a team in transition. They’re young, kind of interesting, and retooling on the fly. It’s not the old guard you’re used to, but it’s a group that’s working—they’re a playoff team and somehow leading the Southwest Division. Facing the Detroit Pistons without injured Demar DeRozan and disgruntled LaMarcus Aldridge,

Game Vitals: When: 8 p.m. ESTWhere: Little Caesars Arena, Detroit, MichiganWatch: Fox Sports Detroit, Odds: Pistons +3 Projected Lineups: Detroit Pistons (10-28): Delon Wright, Rodney McGruder, Saddiq Bey, Jerami Grant, Mason Plumlee San Antonio Spurs (19-16): Derrick White, Dejounte Murray, Keldon Johnson, Trey Lyles, Jakob Poeltl Pregame Reading: The Pistons already made a couple of

The Detroit Pistons plan to sign forward/center Tyler Cook to a 10-day contract, according to Shams Charania of The Athletic. Cook previously signed a 10-day with the big-man starved Booklyn Nets. Ironically, the Pistons are able to sign Cook thanks to the roster spot opened up by the buyout of Blake Griffin, who eventually signed

I have decided to never be surprised by any potential trade rumors involving new GM Troy Weaver even when it involves big game hunting. I’m not sure if the perennially interesting but never quite actually really good Aaron Gordon fits that bill, but a new report indicates the Detroit Pistons have inquired about the Orlando

The San Antonio Spurs are like the zombie franchise that refused to die. Always moving forward toward the playoffs. In this case, they are not the modern World War Z types who sprint toward cities and climb giant walls. They are the old-school zombies. Quiet. Ambling. Moving slowly and steadily toward forever competence. This year

Hey everyone. This is Laz Jackson of Detroit Bad Boys, and on this week’s episode we talk about your 10-28 Detroit Pistons. Jacob Kniffen of The Uncontested joins Ben Gulker and I to break down the Hamidou Diallo trade. We talk about Diallo’s future role for Detroit, how Detroit and Oklahoma City are two teams

NBA trade deadline season is officially underway and, big surprise, it was started by the Detroit Pistons’ uber-aggressive GM Troy Weaver. perimeter shooter Svi Mykhailiuk was dealt in exchange for Hamidou Diallo. The move means Weaver has almost completely remade the Detroit Pistons roster. There is just one man left standing since he took over

Sometimes basketball just comes down to whether you have the best player on the floor. That was the story in Brooklyn on Saturday night where James Harden took over and finished off Detroit in a 100-95 Nets victory. The Pistons fell to 10-28 on the season. The loss to the Nets came in the form

Game Vitals: When: Saturday, March 13, 2021, 7:00 p.m.Where: Barclays Center, Brooklyn, NY Watch: Fox Sports Detroit/NBA TVOdds: Det +11.5 Projected Lineups: Detroit Pistons (10-27): Delon Wright, Wayne Ellington, Saddiq Bey, Jerami Grant, Mason Plumlee Brooklyn Nets (25-13):Kyrie Irving, James Harden, Bruce Brown, Joe Harris, DeAndre Jordan Pregame Reading: Last night, out of the blue,

Two seasons ago Detroit Pistons Head Coach Dwayne Casey designed a offensive system in which great Blake Griffin became even greater. Two and a half years (and couple of knee procedures) later, the same Blake Griffin is trying to find a niche for himself on a bench of a contending team. Sadly, this new chapter

With the second half of the season officially underway, Detroit Pistons fans are checking the NBA standings on a nightly basis. The team they’re keeping a close eye on? The Minnesota Timberwolves. Two teams, both bad, losing their way to the bottom so that they can land the right lottery combination and, of course, land

We get the report from ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski: Detroit’s 2027 second-round pick on way to OKC is via Houston, sources say. Diallo will be a restricted free agent this summer and Pistons see him a core player moving forward. Lu Dort’s emergence made Diallo expendable, and Thunder add to massive stockpile of picks. https://t.co/6JPHL8Y5VL —

After previous reports indicated the Boston Celtics had Detroit Pistons forward Jerami Grant on top of their wish list of potential trade targets, the price they are willing to pay is coming into sharper focus. Appearing on the A-List Podcast, James Edwards III of The Athletic said “the Celtics have offered multiple firsts for (Grant).

The Detroit Pistons couldn’t deny the Charlotte Hornets’ quest to return to .500, coming up short on the road 105-102. The Pistons have now lost 11 straight against the Hornets. The first 12 minutes was a tough watch, as the advantage was Charlotte’s, 30-22. It would have been total bloodshed if it wasn’t for Jerami

The Detroit Pistons kick off the second half of their schedule tonight against LaMelo Ball and the Charlotte Hornets. Detroit looks to continue building up its young players and that is all the easier with Blake Griffin officially a Brooklyn Net. The team might change even more as the trade deadline approaches. The Hornets, meanwhile,

Coming off the seven day All-Star break, the Detroit Pistons hit the road to begin the second half of the season against the Charlotte Hornets. The Pistons sputtered their way to the break, losing four of their last five. The Hornets, on the other hand, have alternated between wins and losses in eleven consecutive games.

When Jerami Grant and Mason Plumlee signed with Detroit Pistons this, the reaction featured little applause and a plenty of mockery. Fans and prognosticators alike thought the pair, who played together with the Denver Nuggets, were overpaid and out of place with the rebuilding Pistons. So far, they’ve proven their doubters wrong. Plumlee has been

We are officially half a season into Troy Weaver’s rebuild of the Detroit Pistons. There have been some surprising highs and some unsurprising lows. The team sits at 10-26, worst in the Eastern Conference and second worst in the NBA behind the Minnesota Timberwolves. Let’s take a closer look at the first half: 1. What

Halfway into his first season as General Manager, we can see some contours of Troy Weaver’s rebuilding philosophy with the Detroit Pistons. The team is heading for a pick in first half of the lottery. Even though it was, to a significant extent, predictable before the start of the season, Troy decided to invest all