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Dana Gauruder |  Special to Detroit Free Press The Detroit Pistons will be without one of their starting guards for at least two more games. Killian Hayes will miss their home game against Miami on Tuesday and road contest in Milwaukee on Wednesday with a sprained left thumb, the team announced Monday. Hayes sat out

Cade Cunningham didn’t hesitate. When Isaiah Stewart charged after LeBron James on Sunday night at Little Caesars Arena — after James threw his elbow and his hand jacked Stewart in the face — Cunningham grabbed his teammate. He wrapped his arms around Stewart. Blood was streaming down Stewart’s face — he would require stitches — and Cunningham

The Isaiah Stewart meltdown after getting struck in the face by LeBron James was all over sports talk shows Monday morning. The Detroit Pistons (4-12) blew a 17-point second-half lead in a 121-116 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers (9-9), but reaction and debate about the enraged Stewart running all over the Little Caesars Arena floor was front and

Dana Gauruder |  Special to Detroit Free Press The Detroit Pistons have taken all kinds of lumps during the first few weeks of the season. Their fiery second-year center wasn’t about to back down from the one he got on Sunday, even if it came from the world’s most famous athlete. LeBron James whacked Isaiah Stewart

Dana Gauruder |  Special to Detroit Free Press The Detroit Pistons have taken all kinds of lumps during the first few weeks of the season. Their fiery second-year center wasn’t about to back down from the one he got on Sunday, even if it came from the world’s most famous athlete. LeBron James whacked Isaiah Stewart

Editor’s note: The Pistons lost to the Lakers, 121-116, despite Jerami Grant’s 36 points and Cade Cunningham’s first career triple-double.  The Detroit Pistons-Los Angeles Lakers rivalry may be back in full effect after Sunday’s wild scene in the second of their game at Little Caesars Arena. It started when, during a box out on a

Dana Gauruder |  Special to Detroit Free Press A mundane and forgettable start to the Detroit Pistons season suddenly turned into a blood and guts battle. The world’s most famous athlete was tossed out during a wild and tense scene at Little Caesars Arena. Second-year center Isaiah Stewart took a shot to the face from LeBron

Isaiah Stewart looked like a traffic cop. In the middle of a dance club. Stewart, the Detroit Pistons‘ 20-year-old center, swayed from side to side and then broke into a dance on Amsterdam Street in front of the Henry Ford Pistons Performance Center in Detroit. He waved a glow stick like it was a tiny lightsaber,

Dana Gauruder |  Special to Detroit Free Press The Detroit Pistons could have discovered how far they’re away from being contenders if Golden State suited up most of their regulars on Friday. The Warriors accomplished that with their ‘B’ team on the floor. Many of the fans came to see Stephen Curry and Draymond Green. They

Dana Gauruder |  Special to Detroit Free Press Golden State ‘Lite’ was more than enough to beat the Detroit Pistons’ ‘Regular.’ The depleted Warriors played without the league’s leading scorer, Stephen Curry, and Draymond Green, among others and still edged the Pistons 105-102 on Friday. Former Michigan standout Jordan Poole had a season-high 32 points

With the Detroit Pistons and Philadelphia 76ers having talked, at some point, about a Ben Simmons trade that would involve Jerami Grant, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer — though no deal is imminent and it remains an unlikely match for multiple reasons — let’s take a look at the Pistons’ draft capital. We’ll explain why a big swing this

Detroit Pistons (4-10) vs. Golden State Warriors (13-2) When: 7 p.m. Friday. Where: Little Caesars Arena in Detroit. TV channel: Bally Sports Detroit. Radio: WXYT-FM (97.1; Pistons radio affiliates). Want more Pistons news: Download our free, easy to use mobile app on iPhone & Android. Slam dunk offer: Gain access to our most exclusive Pistons content all year long at $1 for 6 months. You’ll have access to every

Dana Gauruder |  Special to Detroit Free Press Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors are once again lighting it up against NBA defenses this season. Curry is playing like a two-time MVP and the NBA-leading Warriors (13-2), who were knocked out during the play-in tournament last season, rallied for a 104-89 win at Cleveland

Detroit Pistons (4-10) vs. Golden State Warriors (13-2) When: 7 p.m. Friday. Where: Little Caesars Arena in Detroit. TV channel: Bally Sports Detroit. Radio: WXYT-FM (97.1; Pistons radio affiliates). Want more Pistons news: Download our free, easy to use mobile app on iPhone & Android. Slam dunk offer: Gain access to our most exclusive Pistons content all year long at $1 for 6 months. You’ll have access to every

Dana Gauruder |  Special to Detroit Free Press Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors are once again lighting it up against NBA defenses this season. Curry is playing like a two-time MVP and the Warriors, who were knocked out during the play-in tournament last season, headed into Cleveland on Thursday with the league’s best

Dana Gauruder |  Special to Detroit Free Press The Detroit Pistons’ backcourt lottery picks are going through the learning process of how to deal with adversity. Backup Cory Joseph knows what he has to do when things don’t go his way. Joseph, the floor leader of the second unit, played just six minutes against Sacramento on

Dana Gauruder |  Special to Detroit Free Press This Detroit Pistons season is all about the young backcourt of Cade Cunningham and Killian Hayes. Their primary backup stole the spotlight on Wednesday. Cory Joseph had a season-high 18 points as the Pistons bounced back from a 22-point loss to Sacramento on Monday with a 97-89 win

Dana Gauruder |  Special to Detroit Free Press It’s become a familiar scene for the Detroit Pistons this season. Shots don’t fall in the early going, the offense gets out of sync and the game gets away from them. They followed up their best offensive performance of the season vs. the Toronto Raptors with another of

Yes, the Detroit Pistons are rebuilding. Yes, this is only the second season of the planned “restoring.” And sure, the early schedule has been arduous. But the Pistons (3-10) have played ugly basketball and looked disjointed, specifically on offense, far too often 13 games into the season. They authored another disturbing chapter Monday at Little Caesars

Luke Walton can rest a little easier following his team’s performance Monday in Detroit. After reports broke earlier in the day that Sacramento’s third-year coach could lose his job if the Kings’ losing continued, his team played with urgency and ended a four-game skid by slaying the Detroit Pistons in a 129-107 blowout at Little Caesars Arena. Buddy Hield’s 22