Chauncey Billups had 18 points and seven assists Friday night to lead the Detroit Pistons to a second straight victory without Richard Hamilton, 116-92 over the Orlando Magic. Complete Story...
Tayshaun Prince scored a career-high 34 points and matched a career best with 12 rebounds, and the Detroit Pistons used a big second-half run to beat the Miami Heat 91-80 Thursday night in the season opener for both teams.
Detroit Pistons guard Rodney Stuckey had surgery on his broken left hand Thursday and is expected to be out for about six weeks.
As his teammates danced and carried on while wearing baseball caps and T-shirts proclaiming "Champions," LeBron James walked around in a daze with a smile etched across his face. "This is like a dream," he said, shaking his head. "This is probably the best feeling that I've ever had in my life." An entire city felt the same.
LeBron James scored a career playoff-high 48 points — including his team's final 25 points, and 29 of its last 30 — to lift the Cleveland Cavaliers to a 109-107 double-overtime victory over the Detroit Pistons Thursday night and within a win of the NBA finals for the first time in franchise history.
The Toronto Raptors moved a step closer to clinching home court in the first round of the playoffs. If they later meet the Detroit Pistons, they know they'll have to play better.
Rasheed Wallace showed off some serious range and Shaquille O'Neal gave himself a new nickname. Wallace made the miracle shot of the night — maybe of the year — banking home a 60-footer as time expired to send the game to overtime, and the Detroit Pistons went on to beat the Denver Nuggets 113-109 on Monday night.
Richard Hamilton has played a lot of basketball in his life, and almost all of it has gone better than Sunday. In a nationally televised game between the top teams from the Eastern and Western conferences, Hamilton missed five fourth-quarter free throws before ending the game on the Detroit Pistons bench, bleeding heavily from a cut inflicted by one of his teammates. Adding insult to injury, the Pistons lost 92-88 to the Dallas Mavericks to end their five-game winning streak.
So much for the conventional wisdom that the NBA's West is far stronger than the East. The Detroit Pistons swept that theory away with their first 5-0 trip through the West in 15 years.
While the Suns and the Mavericks seem to grab all the attention, the Detroit Pistons are quietly rolling through their current road trip.
Hitting the road was the perfect remedy for the Detroit Pistons. They are rediscovering their swagger with the playoffs a little more than a month away, and Chris Webber is rapidly developing into an offensive threat again.
Richard Hamilton scored 15 of his 23 points in the first quarter and the Detroit Pistons beat the Los Angeles Clippers 98-80 on Sunday while Rasheed Wallace sat out a one-game suspension.
The NBA can fine Detroit's Rasheed Wallace all it wants. He's not going to change the way he plays. Money is just not that important to him. Wallace picked up his 16th technical foul of the season — incurring an automatic one-game suspension — in the Pistons' 95-82 victory over the Denver Nuggets on Friday night.
LeBron James was unstoppable. Then, he said the Cleveland Cavaliers can be, too. James scored a season-high 41 points, leading the Cavaliers to a 101-97 overtime victory over the Detroit Pistons on Wednesday night.
Jason Richardson had been waiting a long time to win at home. Richardson scored a season-high 29 points in front of his friends and family to help his Golden State Warriors end a six-game losing streak with a 111-93 victory over the Detroit Pistons on Monday night.
Tayshaun Prince only wanted to hit the rim and avoid a shot clock violation. He did much better than that, helping the Detroit Pistons avoid a loss to the worst team in the NBA.
Shaquille O'Neal helped the Miami Heat build a 22-point lead. And when they blew it, he delivered the go-ahead dunk in the final minute to beat the Detroit Pistons. O'Neal had 31 points and 15 rebounds, both season highs, and the Heat earned their most impressive win yet since losing Dwyane Wade, edging Detroit 85-82 Friday night.
Ben Wallace got the reaction he wanted, not the result. Chris Webber made a putback with 2.2 seconds left and matched a season high with 21 points to lift the Detroit Pistons to a 95-93 win over the Chicago Bulls on Sunday.
His Detroit Pistons down five points in the third quarter, coach Flip Saunders was livid. Saunders' screaming and wild gestures several feet onto the court earned him a technical foul, but it gave the Pistons the jolt they needed to pull out a 94-89 win against the Orlando Magic on Friday night.
Chris Webber and Richard Hamilton each scored 18 points, and the Detroit Pistons beat the Orlando Magic 110-88 Wednesday night for their ninth win in 10 games.
The Detroit Pistons simply don't get rattled on the road, even against a desperate team that just got its star player back from injury. Detroit withstood a second-half rally by Michael Redd and the Milwaukee Bucks, holding on for an 84-83 victory Tuesday night after a missed layup by Mo Williams just before the final horn.
Detroit Pistons center Dale Davis was shocked with a stun gun and charged with assault and disorderly conduct in an altercation with Miami Beach police.
Ben Wallace is bringing his rebounds, blocks and steals to the Chicago Bulls. The free-agent center, a four-time Defensive Player of the Year, is leaving the Detroit Pistons to sign with the Bulls, a person within the NBA said Monday.
Tayshaun Prince scored a career playoff-high 29 points to lift the Detroit Pistons to a 91-78 win Wednesday night in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference finals, keeping the Pistons alive. The Miami Heat now lead the best-of-seven series, 3 games to 2.
Dwyane Wade scored 12 of his 31 points in the final quarter Monday night, leading a late charge that carried the Miami Heat to an 89-78 win over the Detroit Pistons and a 3-1 lead in the Eastern Conference final series. Miami is on the cusp of its first trip to the NBA Finals.
In a professional sports league where more than half of the teams make the playoffs, the regular season almost seems irrelevant...So let's start talking playoffs.
....Even some Pistons heard it. Let's call it: The Rumor. The tall tale went like this: The Pistons could get Lakers guard Kobe Bryant in a trade.
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The NBA basketball season is just around the corner, and that means it is time for power rankings!
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The NBA basketball season is just around the corner, and that means it is time for power rankings!
The NBA basketball season is just around the corner, and that means it is time for power rankings!
The NBA basketball season is just around the corner, and that means it is time for power rankings!
The NBA basketball season is just around the corner, and that means it is time for power rankings!
The NBA basketball season is just around the corner, and that means it is time for power rankings!
The NBA basketball season is just around the corner, and that means it is time for power rankings!
The NBA basketball season is just around the corner, and that means it is time for power rankings!
The NBA basketball season is just around the corner, and that means it is time for power rankings!
DETROIT (AP) -- Road construction put Detroit Pistons coach Flip Saunders on the 10th Avenue bridge Wednesday in Minneapolis. The detour perhaps saved his life.
Chicago Bulls - B+#9 - Joakim Noah#49 - Aaron Gray#51 - JamesOn CurryDecent draft for the Bulls. They got three guys from big-time college programs. I like the Joakim Noah pick. He's a big man who plays EXTREMELY hard and will do the dirty work for the team.
Tim Duncan is on the verge of leading San Antonio to its fourth NBA title since 1998.
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. – Time and time again came LeBron, no other option, no other chance for the Cleveland Cavaliers. One on five every time. One LeBron, five Piston defenders and Detroit barely had a prayer.
DAY THIRTY-NINE - Game six. In Cleveland. After LeBron James put on one of the greatest playoff performances of all-time, his teams needs only one more win to advance to the NBA Finals.
With a couple more well placed victories, the finals of the NBA playoffs will be set.