Just when you thought the Detroit Pistons’ season couldn’t get worse, the team announced on Wednesday that rookie wing Ausar Thompson will miss the rest of the season as he gets treated for a blood clot. Thompson left Detroit’s game against Dallas on March 9 after playing only 11 minutes due to what was initially … Read more
The NBA trade deadline has passed, but that doesn’t mean the league’s roster-churning is done. Teams are still reworking rosters in the wake of trade deadline deals, cutting some players loose where they’ll have an opportunity to latch on in other places. This takes two forms. The first is when a team must waive a … Read more
The Athletic has live coverage of the 2024 NBA trade deadline. Follow along for updates. It’s finally here: NBA Trade Deadline week. Pencils go down after Thursday. The first dominos fell early this year with the New York Knicks and Toronto Raptors setting aside their ongoing litigation to complete a deal involving OG Anunoby, RJ Barrett and Immanuel Quickley. The second big one fell in January as the Raptors … Read more
Sitting 12th in the Western Conference and with a 19-24 record, things are starting to get desperate for the Golden State Warriors — and it could even spell the end of the team’s ‘Big Three’. That is according to The Athletic’s NBA insider Shams Charania, who again on Tuesday reiterated that “everyone is on the … Read more
From a surprise suitor showing interest in Dejounte Murray to an already traded player that could be on the move again, there is plenty of talk ahead of the upcoming NBA trade deadline (February 8 US time). Here is the latest news from around the league! Watch an average of 9 NBA Regular Season games … Read more
Editor’s Note: Pascal Siakam, originally the No. 1 player on this list, was traded to the Indiana Pacers on Jan. 17. We’ve passed Jan. 15 on the NBA calendar, which opens up a large number of players to be traded who re-signed with their previous team last offseason. It’s a more important group of players … Read more
After losing an NBA single-season record 28 games and starting the season with a league-worst 3-36 record, the Detroit Pistons are shaking things up … but with an eye down the road. On Sunday, league sources confirmed to The Athletic that Detroit has agreed to send Marvin Bagley III, Isaiah Livers and two second-round picks (2025 … Read more
SALT LAKE CITY — The Detroit Pistons shot 53 percent from the field, 46 percent from 3 and scored 148 points … and they still lost. A disappointing, weird and flabbergasting season for Detroit only got more disappointing, weirder and more flabbergasting Wednesday night, at an altitude of 4,265 feet, as the Pistons and Utah … Read more
The Detroit Pistons avoided another dance with NBA history Saturday, defeating the Toronto Raptors 129-127 at Little Caesars Arena to end a 28-game losing skid that matched the league’s all-time losing streak. Pistons coach Monty Williams said, “There was a sense of relief, for sure,” following the win. “But there wasn’t the proverbial exhale. We … Read more
It was almost a moment made for a movie. The NBA’s worst team, losers of 27 straight games, takes on the NBA’s best team on its home court, a place it hasn’t lost all season, and slays the dragon, both figuratively and literally. It would have been an inspirational movie for the ages. Instead, Detroit, … Read more