The Detroit Pistons are now in the early stages of their offseason after being eliminated by the Cleveland Cavaliers in rather disappointing fashion. While
It’s been a little over a week since the Detroit Pistons 2025-26 NBA season came to a close in the Eastern Conference Semifinals. Since elimination from
The NBA’s recent All-NBA team announcements have sent shockwaves through Detroit, particularly for young center Jalen Duren. With Cade Cunningham earning a well-deserved spot on the first team—no surprise after his impressive fifth-place finish in MVP voting—Duren’s entry into the All-NBA third team is the real game-changer.
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.
So the Pistons really laid an egg at home in Detroit in game 7 vs. the Cleveland Cavaliers. But, honestly, that shouldn’t take away from what was a fantastic season this year.
One of the bigger talking points for the Detroit Pistons heading into the offseason is Jalen Duren‘s upcoming extension. After a breakout season with Detroit, it was largely expected that Duren would receive a sizable new contract.
The Pistons took a major step forward this season, even if the ending left a sour taste after a disappointing playoff exit against the Cavaliers. Detroit spent much of the year near the top of the Eastern Conference standings behind the continued growth of Cade Cunningham, Jalen Duren and Ausar Thompson.
The Detroit Pistons authored a wonderful regular season in 2025-26. Sadly, the cruel reality of playoff basketball exposed exactly how fragile that breakthrough truly was.
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.
If you delve into this season, you can win an argument that states that the Detroit Pistons were the NBA’s surprise factor. A 60-win season and a No.1 seed in the East is a far cry from when they slumped to just 14 wins just two years previously.
Pistons center Jalen Duren still appears headed for a massive payday. Maybe just not quite as massive as it once looked. According to ESPN’s Bobby Marks, a fair deal for Duren now projects closer to five years and $180 million rather than the full-blown max extension some expected before the playoffs began.
For the first time in 20 years, a Detroit Pistons player has earned a spot on the NBA All-Defensive Team. Not since Ben Wallace in 2006 has a Pistons player received this honor, and on Friday night, Ausar Thompson was named to the 2005-26 NBA All-Defensive First Team.
The Detroit Pistons are an iconic NBA franchise, molded through decades of physical play and grit, and marked by a very successful era from the late 1980s to early 1990s.
The Trail Blazers entered last season hoping veteran forward Jerami Grant could bounce back after a rough 2024-25 campaign. Without a doubt, he did just that.
The Detroit Pistons 2025-26 season was filled with many high moments, including a 60-win regular season and earning the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference.
The Pistons ran out of offensive firepower when they needed it most. Any formula to dominance Jalen Duren and Cade Cunningham figured out during the regular season proved to be unsustainable against both the No.
The Detroit Pistons finished off their 2025-26 season making it as far as Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals before losing to the Cleveland Cavaliers.
The Detroit Pistons will be in unfamiliar territory during the 2026 NBA Draft. Most of this decade, the Pistons have spent their time in the lottery, but after the success of the last two years, Detroit will be selecting later in the first round.
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.
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 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.