Detroit Pistons News and Rumors
76ers fall to Pistons, clinch No. 8 seed in EastAssociated Press, ESPN.com Ben Gordon scored 26 points, including eight 3-pointers, to help the Detroit Pistons rout the short-handed Philadelphia 76ers 108-86 Thursday night in the season finale. |
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When Dennis Mannion became president of business operations for the Detroit Pistons last September, he took over an operation that had become an afterthought at best in the local sports scene. |
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Dime Magazine, dimemag.com Last night was one of those evenings where we really wished we didn’t cover the NBA for a living. Who set up this schedule? When you combine a bunch of really bad teams with some good teams that don’t have anything to play for, ugly basketball ensues … |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Paul George scored 12 of his 27 points in the fourth quarter to help the Indiana Pacers beat the Detroit Pistons 103-97 on Monday night. |
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AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) Nikola Pekovic scored 23 points and the Minnesota Timberwolves ended an 11-game losing streak with a 91-80 victory over the Detroit Pistons on Thursday night. |
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Kelly Dwyer, yahoo.com Even given the disparate levels of competition — jumping from the terrible Cleveland Cavaliers to the quite-competent Atlanta Hawks is quite the leap — how in the hell did the Detroit Pistons go from winning by 39 points on Tuesday night against the C… |
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ATLANTA (AP) Tracy McGrady led six players in double figures and the playoff-bound Atlanta Hawks built a 37-point lead in the first half on the way to a 116-84 rout of the Detroit Pistons on Wednesday night. |
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Joanne C. Gerstner, nytimes.com The Cleveland Cavaliers and Detroit Pistons aren't playoff-bound, but there still is something to play for: lottery ping-pong balls. The Cavaliers seem to be embracing the lottery more than the Pistons. |
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Dan Devine, yahoo.com "Oh, man. I thought you were gonna do one of these [makes curving hand motion]." — Antawn Jamison to Lester Hudson, probably. Amazingly, this was the Cleveland Cavaliers' best highlight from Tuesday night's 39-point loss to the Detroit Pistons… |
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Pistons’ lead over Cavs hits 50 points heading into fourth quarter, settles at 39 in laugher (VIDEO)Apr 18
Dan Devine, yahoo.com In the wee hours of Tuesday morning, a fan-written post went live at the great Sacramento Kings blog Sactown Royalty with a simple, matter-of-fact headline: "Cleveland knows how to tank." Given the stinkbomb the Cleveland Cavaliers unleashed a… |
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AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) Greg Monroe dribbled out from near his own basket all the way into the frontcourt. Then the 6-foot-11 center made a nice pass to Brandon Knight, who dunked the ball at the buzzer. |
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Sean Sweeney, dimemag.com In Chicago’s overtime win against Detroit yesterday, Derrick Rose dropped 24 and hit a dagger triple at the end of regulation to save the Bulls. But that wasn’t all he talked about afterwards. According to K.C. Johnson of the Chicago Tribune‘s Twitt… |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Derrick Rose scored 24 points, including a tying 3-pointer in the final seconds of regulation, and the Chicago Bulls beat the Detroit Pistons for the 15th straight time, 100-94 in overtime Sunday night. |
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) For the first time this week the Detroit Pistons had some fun. |
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Freddy Lopez, dimemag.com As Kentucky’s championship celebration from Bourbon Street to Lexington drew to an end, baseball’s Opening Day debuted this past weekend. In between the taste of alcohol in N’awlins and smell of hot dogs filling the lazy summer days at the ballpark,… |
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Sean Sweeney, dimemag.com Over the summer, I spent time working on a big feature for Dime #65. It was on Ben Gordon, and whether we had lost the real Ben Gordon for good somewhere along the line. He was always one of my favorite players… one of those cats who wasn’t quite a su… |
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C-a-C: ‘Tell me how am I supposed to live without you / Now that I’ve been loving you so long’Apr 9
Dan Devine, yahoo.com Bringing "Battioke" to the court seemed like a weird strategy, but then the Detroit Pistons only shot 37.3 percent from the floor and lost by 23. Never doubt Shane Battier when it comes to defensive tactics, I guess. Best caption wins just eno… |
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Magic center Dwight Howard is sitting out Orlando's home game Monday against Detroit because of back spasms. |
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MIAMI (AP) James Jones had a big night for the Miami Heat , and coach Erik Spoelstra is going to have some big decisions soon. |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Jeff Teague tied a career high with 24 points and had a season-high 11 assists, and Josh Smith added 20 points and 12 rebounds to help the Atlanta Hawks hold off the Detroit Pistons for a 101-96 victory on Friday night. |
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AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) Ben Wallace is supposed to be in the last weeks of his career. His Detroit Pistons teammates are still hoping he changes his mind. |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Greg Monroe had 22 points and 11 rebounds, and the Detroit Pistons beat the depleted Orlando Magic 102-95 on Tuesday night. |
