DEE-TROIT BASKET-BALL is reaching. And reaching. The injury-prone team in this shortened NBA season is feeling the sting of the injury bug and now, they are really, really reaching. According to The Associated Press, the Detroit Pistons are “reaching in” […]
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John Loyer joins Detroit Pistons staff
New Jersey Nets assistant coach John Loyer is headed to Detroit to help coach the Pistons according to reporters who spoke with Nets coach Avery Johnson. “John Loyer is going to Detroit,” Johnson told the New Jersey Star-Ledger. “We’ll have […]
Detroit Pistons select Brandon Knight
With the 8th pick in the 2011 NBA draft the Detroit Pistons selected point guard Brandon Knight from the University of Kentucky. Knight had been projected to go as high as third overall to the Utah Jazz but dropped to […]
Pistons fire John Kuester
The Detroit Pistons have fired Head Coach John Kuester. The combination of empty seats and new ownership helped see Kuester out the door. This, just four days after Tom Gores completed an agreement to purchase the Pistons from Karen Davidson. […]
Tom Gores to buy Detroit Pistons
Tom Gores, a Los Angeles-based financier who grew up in Flint, Michigan, will be the Detroit Pistons’ new owner. Gores signed a purchase agreement on Friday to acquire the Pistons. The deal still needs approval from the NBA. Terms of […]
Pistons laugh at ejected Kuester
It’s getting uglier and uglier for the Detroit Pistons. Several hours after more than one third of his team failed to show up for a morning shootaround as a ‘player protest’, Pistons head coach John Kuester was ejected from Detroit’s […]
Pistons Protest
According to the Detroit News, one day after the trade deadline passed, half the Pistons players missed Friday morning’s shootaround in what a team source called a “player protest.” Tracy McGrady, Tayshaun Prince, Richard Hamilton and Chris Wilcox did not […]
Top 10 Spectrum Moments
As the city of Philadelphia gets set to demolish the Spectrum, it is time to take one final look back at some of the top events in its storied existence. After opening on September 30, 1967, the Spectrum enjoyed many […]