Pistons Fan Blogs

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

Neal Ruhl joins the Motor City Hoops Podcast from the fast growing Woodward Sports Network, along with being the voice of the Oakland Golden Grizzlies and Detroit City FC for TV20Detroit AND backup Pistons radio play-by-play guy for Mark Champion. Neal and I take one last quick recap of the Pistons offseason with an emphasis

The Detroit Pistons have been linked to Ben Simmons as a team “still inquiring” about the disgruntled Sixers’ point guard’s availability, according to Sixers beat writer Keith Pompey. Do I think a deal will happen? No, not at all. Will that prevent stories like this that link a handful of teams to Simmons from now

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 some interesting quotes from Media Day, Cade Cunningham’s very mild ankle tweak, and what we’re curious about seeing this preseason out of your Detroit Pistons. As always, we

We’re still waiting on actual news and analysis about the Detroit Pistons to come as the team is deep into training camp and that means no mere member of the public, including those covering the team, have an opportunity to see them in action. That means that we can only go off of what the

Someone recently asked me what it means for the Detroit Pistons to have a successful season this year. I took a moment to chew on the question and came to the conclusion that, at least for me, success has almost nothing to do with wins and losses this season. I feel like that is a

As we await the beginning of 2021-22 season for the Detroit Pistons, we can already watch and discuss the game of Balsa Koprivica, who just finished a preseason with his European club where he’s stashed. His Partizan Belgrade played nine games in preparation to the new season. And the Serbian player looks to be learning

The No. 1 overall pick wasn’t interested in making headlines. And while there is burbling tension regarding vaccination status and regional guidelines and players throughout media day were answering or refusing to answer questions about their decision to not be vaccinated, Pistons players at media day made no waves and talked repeatedly about a few

Ku Khahil from the Locked on Pistons Podcast joins me for the second mailbag episode of the Motor City Hoops Podcast. We had an INCREDIBLE 15 questions submitted, which was very much appreciated, and gave us a chance to dive into all sorts of Pistons, NBA and basketball conversation. All-time Pistons bench starting 5? Weaver