Jalen Duren may have cost himself some money in recent weeks, but he should still be doing pretty well for himself. The Detroit Pistons center Duren is expected to command a five-year contract from the team in free agency this offseason, Hunter Patterson of The Athletic reported on Wednesday.
After one of their best seasons in recent memory, the Detroit Pistons find themselves in a place where they have rarely been this decade, drafting outside the lottery.
How many of the most recent players to score at least 30 points in an NBA Finals game for each franchise can you name in five minutes?NOTE: The Charlotte Hornets, Los Angeles Clippers, Memphis Grizzlies, Minnesota Timberwolves, New Orleans Pelicans, have never made the NBA Finals, while no Kings player scored 30 in their lone appearance (1951).
Around this time last year, Pistons President of Basketball Operations Trajan Langdon was entering his second offseason with a young Detroit squad coming off of a season of massive improvement.
As an NBA fan, it hits different when a team's best player is a guy the franchise nurtured from the very start. There's a greater attachment to stars who have been there since the start, who have bled the team's colors since the start of their careers.
There’s beauty in the Pistons being a physical, gritty team in a city like Detroit, and I certainly have bias towards the modern game, but Trajan Langdon and JB Bickerstaff both have to create more opportunities for the long ball this summer.
The New York Knicks and the San Antonio Spurs are set to face off in the 2026 NBA Finals starting on Wednesday. It’s a stage that many Pistons fans were hoping Detroit would reach after earning 60 regular-season wins and the No.
They fell short in the playoffs, but the Detroit Pistons showed they have most of the tools to remain a contender year in and year out. But not all the tools.
Following a 2025-26 NBA season in which the Detroit Pistons earned 60 regular-season wins and captured their first playoff series win since 2008, fans are hoping that general manager Trajan Langdon makes a bold move this offseason, rather than standing pat and sticking with the current roster intact.
What has been obvious from their playoff performance is that the Detroit Pistons need another proven, consistent scorer to lighten the load on Cade Cunningham.
Every offseason, NBA franchises look to the draft to improve their roster and potentially land their next future star. That’s exactly what the Detroit Pistons look to do this offseason when they select at No.
If an NBA player ends a game with 30 points, that's generally a great night. 40 points is fantastic, and 50 points is an event. That's especially true when that type of scoring outburst comes from an unexpected source.
The Detroit Pistons are now in offseason mode, which means they’ll be looking at ways to improve their roster to make a championship run next season. In order to make their title dreams possible, they must focus on adding players to contribute significantly, especially in terms of replacing starters from this past season.
The Cleveland Cavaliers just reached their first Eastern Conference Finals without LeBron James since 1992. However, their playoff run ended in a four-game sweep.
The Detroit Pistons had a successful 2025-26 season and will look to take a step forward next season to compete for an NBA championship. If they want to do this though, they’re going to need to be active in free agency this summer to bring in both upgrades and replacements in a few positions.
The Detroit Pistons were able to make strides this season, making it to the second round of the playoffs, but losing to the Cleveland Cavaliers in seven games.
It’s been a tough two-week stretch watching a team the Detroit Pistons probably should have passed get stomped on by the New York Knc That’s not to say Detroit would have beaten New York in the Eastern Conference Finals, but the fight would have been there.
Despite losing in the second round of the playoffs, The Detroit Pistons find themselves placed No. 21 in the first of this year's rookie NBA Draft. The
For the second consecutive season, Pistons coach J.B. Bickerstaff came up just short of winning NBA Coach of the Year as the honor went to Joe Mazzula of the Boston Celtics.
For a year that should widely be considered a success for the Detroit Pistons, of course there were the disappointments. The playoff did not go as many fans expected, and certain players failed to live up to their expectations this year.
Watching the Cleveland Cavaliers get swept in dominating fashion by the New York Knicks in the Eastern Conference Finals made many Pistons fans wonder what could’ve been if they hadn’t fallen short in the previous round at the hands of their bitter division rival.
The Detroit Pistons had a good run in this year’s postseason. To no one’s surprise, they failed to reach the Eastern Conference Finals, flaming out in the semifinal round against the Cleveland Cavaliers.
How many NBA players to make first team All-NBA since the 2015-16 season can you name in five minutes?
This time, Michael Jordan can’t take that personally. On Thursday morning, Jordan’s longtime rival and Detroit Pistons great, Isiah Thomas was asked by Dan Patrick to name his “Dream Team” during an appearance on Patrick’s radio show.
Jalen Duren’s rough playoffs have not changed the organization’s opinion on him.
Head coach J.B. Bickerstaff and the Detroit Pistons are officially out of the postseason after falling to the Cleveland Cavaliers in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference semifinals in Detroit on Sunday, 125-94.
The Detroit Pistons had high hopes heading into Game 7 of their Eastern Conference semifinal series against the Cleveland Cavaliers, but things went the other way as the team fell hard, losing 125-94.
The Pistons have listed guard/forwards Duncan Robinson (low back soreness), Caris LeVert (right heel contustion) and Kevin Huerter (left adductor strain) as questionable for Sunday’s do-or-die Game 7 against Cleveland, according to Hunter Patterson of The Athletic (Twitter link).
The Detroit Pistons have officially forced a Game 7 against the Cleveland Cavaliers in the Eastern Conference semifinals after the team's Friday win, 115-94, on the road.
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