The Detroit Pistons‘ 2020-21 season can’t be accurately summed up by their record. And there’s no question that their 20-52 mark, the second-worst in the NBA, was bad. But it was a season of growth, after Troy Weaver was hired as general manager last June and promptly proceeded to tear down and rebuild the roster
Aboard a recent flight from Detroit to his hometown of St. Louis, Tyler Cook found himself in a state of reflection about the whirlwind journey his basketball life has traveled over the past two years. The most prominent feeling that emerged in his heart: Gratefulness. Undrafted out of Iowa in 2019, Cook thought back to
Jerami Grant is one of three finalists for this year’s Most Improved Player of the Year award, the NBA announced. MIP is one of six end of the season awards the league bestows on its players and coaches for their achievements during the regular season. The competition is tough. Jerami will face off with breakout
On Monday, we took an in-depth look at what we knew about the NBA’s 2021 draft lottery standings and projected draft order so far based on the regular season standings, and what was still to be determined based on play-in results, random tiebreakers, and the lottery results. With the play-in tournament nearly over, we can
Six months after Jerami Grant surprised many across the NBA by signing a three-year, $60 million contract with the Detroit Pistons, it’s safe to say the decision paid off for him. Figuratively and literally. The size of the deal alone was eye-popping, but also spoke to the confidence that general manager Troy Weaver had in
Associated Press Denver’s Nikola Jokic finished ninth in the MVP voting last season. Philadelphia’s Joel Embiid and Golden State’s Stephen Curry didn’t get listed on a single ballot a year ago. A year later, one of them will walk away with the NBA’s highest individual prize. Jokic, Embiid and Curry were revealed Thursday night as
The Pistons will field an abundance of high-level talent on their 2021 Summer League team this August, details Keith Langlois of Pistons.com. Detroit expects to have its draft selections from the 2019-2021 seasons on the Summer League roster. That will include current 2020/21 rookies Killian Hayes, Isaiah Stewart, Saddiq Bey, Saben Lee, and Deividas Sirvydis, plus second-year
Jerami Grant put together the best season of his career with the Detroit Pistons this season. NBA awards voters took note. Grant is one of the three finalists for the NBA’s Most Improved Player Award, the league announced on Thursday. He’s competing with New York Knicks forward Julius Randle, and Denver Nuggets forward Michael Porter
During a TNT broadcast ahead of tonight’s Wizards-Pacers play-in matchup, the finalists for six big end-of-season 2020/21 awards were announced. Here is the full list, as voted on by reporters. NBA Most Valuable Player: NBA Defensive Player of the Year: NBA Rookie of the Year: NBA Most Improved Player: NBA Sixth Man of the Year:
Lazarus Jackson (@lazchance) talked to Omari Sankofa II (@omarisankofa) about the end of the Pistons’ season, and Troy Weaver’s comments during his last press conference of the season. That, in turn, became a discussion about collecting centers, covering an NBA team during a global pandemic, what nickname we should give guys who play for the
When asked about his biggest takeaway from his first NBA season, Killian Hayes’ response was succinct. The Pistons’ rookie point guard appeared in 19 of their final 24 games after missing three months of action with a torn hip labrum. He showed flashes of the player he can potentially become, and his focus is on
There was this game between the Detroit Pistons and Washington Wizards in January 1998 in the nation’s capital. Detroit, built around core of Grant Hill, Jerry Stackhouse and Brian Williams (who didn’t play that match), lost in disappointing fashion during a disappointing season a year after two consecutive early playoff exits. This nondescript January game
In many ways, the NBA Draft is similar to a college-entrance exam. The more preparation that is done, the more poised a team is to be successful in picking the right players. Pistons general manager Troy Weaver has shown himself to have the right tools to succeed in the draft year after year. Weaver shined in
With the 2020-21 season in the rearview mirror, Matt and I discuss the Pistons end to the regular season, and their draft lottery odds. Speaking of the lottery, we both go over who we’d select in the top five of the draft (one through five). From there, we move on to a Detroit LEGEND in
Hamidou Diallo was new to the Detroit Pistons when the organization acquired him from Oklahoma City in March. He wasn’t new to general manager Troy Weaver, though. The Thunder had traded for Hamidou Diallo on draft night in 2018, while Weaver was still an assistant general manager there. Weaver had scouted him since he was
Another season of Detroit Pistons basketball, another year without a playoff win. That’s 13 consecutive seasons, but who’s counting? And yet, it was a good year for the Pistons, despite the second-worst record in the league in 2020-21. They finally got off the treadmill of mediocrity, and chose the rebuild restoring path. The franchise is surfacing again,
Detroit — Piston Group LLC has filed a lawsuit seeking the restoration of its status as a minority business with the Michigan Minority Supplier Development Council, according to a press release issued Tuesday by the group. The lawsuit filed in Wayne County Circuit Court claims that the actions taken against the Black-owned auto supplier by the council
The Detroit Pistons season might be over, but basketball is continuing. For the first time it will feature a play-in tournament which is like a pre-post-season. Essentially, it’s a way to hoover up all the bad teams that would have made the playoffs and gotten swept in the first round, add some additional bad teams
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