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Detroit Pistons head coach Dwane Casey was given the go-ahead from ownership to expand and reshape his coaching staff as he sees fit this offseason, and Casey has taken advantage of the opportunity. He hired former Michigan men’s basketball coach John Beilein as senior advisor of player development, and added former Boston Celtics assistant Jerome

It’s been a quiet offseason for the Detroit Pistons so far. Outside of winning the lottery,  it’s been a long wait for the NBA draft and free agency. The draft takes place July 29, and free agency begins the following week. The Pistons won’t be major players in free agency, but they have five free agents

Detroit Pistons fans are counting down the days until the 2021 NBA draft on July 29. (It’s at nine now. You’re welcome.) They received exciting news nearly one month ago when the Pistons won the lottery, securing the right to select Oklahoma State’s Cade Cunningham with the No. 1 pick. Pistons general manager Troy Weaver has

The 2021 NBA draft is about a week away now, and the ordering of players set to hear their name called by commissioner Adam Silver is starting to crystallize. Oklahoma State sensation Cade Cunningham has been the favorite to go No. 1 to the Detroit Pistons in the July 29 draft for a while now, but

Beginning next season, Detroit Pistons fans will have a new way to get close to the action happening on the count. On Monday, the Pistons unveiled their new CURE Insurance Courtside Club — an open-air bar and lounge that will be stationed behind the visitor’s baseline at Little Caesars Arena. The club will feature a full

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Kentucky Sports Hall of Fame has announced a 2021 Class featuring six individuals with strong Kentucky connections who have made outstanding contributions in athletics. The selections for the Hall’s 44th class, as determined by a panel of 15 sports media professionals in Kentucky, are the late John Asher (media), Dwane Casey

We’re less than two weeks away from the Detroit Pistons making one of the pivotal decisions in franchise history. They own the No. 1 pick in the 2021 NBA draft, with a prime opportunity to add a franchise player with the pick. After amore than a decade of rebuilds and false starts, brighter days appear

When the Detroit Tigers selected high school pitcher Jackson Jobe with the No. 3 pick on Sunday, it kicked off an unprecedented run of draft for Motor City teams: Thanks to NHL expansion, COVID-19 delays to the seasons and MLB’s attempt to put its draft in the All-Star Game spotlight, Detroit teams will take part in

Detroit Pistons forward Jerami Grant, a member of the 2021 Team USA Olympic men’s basketball team, has entered health and safety protocols at their camp in Las Vegas, according to The Athletic. Grant has not tested positive for COVID-19, and it’s unclear how much time he will miss. Team USA has two more exhibition games

General manager Troy Weaver has already made it clear that the Detroit Pistons are unlikely to be as active in the trade market as they were last season. It would be nearly impossible to accomplish that feat anyway, given that Weaver overturned nearly the entire roster last fall. The checklist is much smaller this summer,

When it comes to the  No. 1 overall pick, the game plan is pretty straightforward for the Detroit Pistons — select the best player available. There’s always a chance a team could come with an offer rich enough to convince the Pistons to move out of the top spot. But they’re operating from a position

June 22, 2021, was a joyous evening for the Detroit Pistons. Team employees gathered at the Pistons Performance Center in Midtown for the NBA draft lottery, culminating in cheers from the office as the franchise won the lottery and secured the No. 1 pick for the first time since 1970, signaling a new era for

Tim Reynolds |  Associated Press LAS VEGAS – This is not how USA Basketball expected to open its Olympic summer. Nigeria probably didn’t expect it, either. If there was any expectation of invincibility for the Americans heading into the Tokyo Olympics, it’s already gone — after Nigeria shocked the U.S. 90-87 on Saturday night. Nigeria

There’s not much Larry Brown hasn’t seen or experienced. Or accomplished. But at 80 — he’ll be 81 by the time college basketball season begins in November — the Hall of Fame coach and newly minted Chuck Daly Lifetime Achievement Award winner still finds himself unpacking a 24-hour stretch unlike any he’d been through before. “My phone and

Detroit Pistons rookie big man Isaiah Stewart was one of 17 young players selected to the 2021 USA Basketball Select Team, which trained with the USA Basketball Men’s National Team in Las Vegas from Tuesday-Friday. Unfortunately, Stewart’s time in Vegas was cut short. Stewart suffered an ankle injury Thursday and went home before completing the entire training camp, sources

There’s another Detroit Piston on USA Basketball’s top team, at least for the next week. Saddiq Bey was reportedly elevated from the USA Basketball Select Team — think the Washington Generals to the Olympic team’s Harlem Globetrotters — on Friday ahead of Team USA beginning exhibition play Saturday. The Athletic’s Shams Charania was the first

The scouting report on Jerami Grant after his first season with the Detroit Pistons probably looks significantly different from the one during his first few NBA seasons, spent with the Philadelphia 76ers. Golden State Warriors forward — and former Michigan State star and Flint native — Draymond Green took a moment to reflect on Grant’s progression

The buzz is still out there. Can you feel it? Sure, you can. The No. 1 pick in the NBA draft doesn’t come around often. In fact, for the Detroit Pistons, it hasn’t come around in 50 years. In exactly three weeks, Troy Weaver, the team’s general manager, will draft a player expected to turbo-boost the Pistons’

This time last year, Saddiq Bey was largely limited to working out in high school gyms to prepare for the draft. Because of the pandemic, he had a tough time accessing gyms with NBA-length 3-point lines. A lot has changed since then. Bey made the NBA All-Rookie first team with the Detroit Pistons after a

Cade Cunningham is the likely choice for the Detroit Pistons. General manager Troy Weaver acknowledged after the draft lottery in June the Oklahoma State star is on top of their list of prospects. You would be hard-pressed to find a mock draft that doesn’t list Cunningham first. He was regarded as the best player in