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 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.
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.
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 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.
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 must do whatever it takes to retain as many of their starters from their record-breaking season as they can going into the offseason.
Before the 2025-26 NBA season even started, the Detroit Pistons were slept on. The preseason win total projections for Detroit were at 46.5 wins. The Pistons absolutely crushed this number by finishing the regular season 60-22.
The time is now. The Pistons have never been in a better position to take another leap into the first tier of NBA franchises. President of Basketball Operations Trajan Langdon stepped into his position during the summer of 2024 and had the difficult task of steering the sinking ship that was the Detroit Pistons.
The Detroit Pistons 2025-26 NBA season officially wrapped up on Sunday night. The Cleveland Cavaliers ended the Pistons' postseason run with a dominating 125-94 win in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals at Little Caesars Arena.
Cade Cunningham did not finish the postseason the way he hoped, shooting 12-of-35 in his last two contests, but he gained a massive amount of respect from fans around the world after returning from a collapsed lung and attempting to carry the Detroit Pistons to the Eastern Conference Finals.
The Detroit Pistons have plenty of time to collect their thoughts after being eliminated by the Cleveland Cavaliers in seven games in the Eastern Conference Semifinals.
Pistons president of basketball operations Trajan Langdon said on Tuesday he’s hopeful of signing both Jalen Duren and Ausar Thompson to long-term deals this offseason, according to Omari Sankofa II of the Detroit Free Press.
It’s been two days since the Detroit Pistons season came to an end against the Cleveland Cavaliers in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals at Little Caesars Arena.
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.