PISTONS RUMORS & GOSSIP
Your Morning Dump… Where Mike Zarren is a candidate for the Pistons’ GM job
Every morning, we compile the links of the day and dump them here… highlighting the big storyline. Because there’s nothing quite as satisfying as a good morning dump.
Mike Zarren, the Celtics’ well-respected, numbers-crunching, assistant general manager, is again under consideration for another job.
He is among the early names to surface for the soon-to-be vacant GM job with...
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Andre Drummond’s 6th Foul Kills Chance At Pistons Upset
I noticed we didn’t bother to rest our starters for the finale. I suppose Scott Brooks had the same mindset I did: Better to go into the postseason on a winning note than to play it safe and risk going in on a 3-game losing streak.
Banner celebrating the Thunder’s 4th consecutive Northwest Division Championship.
The 1st quarter was close pretty much the entire way, as the largest...
Via KC Sports Ninja
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Did Brandon Jennings' ex write love song about him?
I guess the perfect time to drop a new single, that just might be about your ex-NBA boyfriend is when he goes public with a new celebrity crush. Singer/actress Teyana Taylor dropped a new song, “Sorry,” which some think could be about her ex, Detroit Pistons guard Brandon Jennings. Jennings has recently been very public in his new relationship with actress Tae Heckard. Taylor...
Via Jocks and Stiletto Jill
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Detroit Pistons NBA Mock Draft Watch: How About Nik Stauskas?
The Detroit Pistons’ draft plans hinge, first and foremost, on what happens at the May 20 draft lottery. As Pistons fans well know by now, should any lottery team below the No. 8 spot hit the jackpot, Detroit would fall out of the top eight and thus have to hand over its first-round pick to Charlotte.
Should the Pistons stay put (or move up), however, this draft ought to provide...
Via The Detroit Sports Site
2 days ago
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Report: Grant Hill Will Not Accept Detroit Pistons GM Job
Grant Hill is a respected figure in the NBA community. He served the league during two decades and dedicated himself to being the best that he could be.
A life in a suit and tie either on the bench or in the front office has been a forgone conclusion.
That does not mean that the time is right for him to walk into the vacated general manager’s seat of the Detroit Pistons left hot...
Via Players View
3 days ago
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Report: Grant Hill Not Interested In Becoming Pistons GM
Wednesday we reported that former Duke and NBA great Grant Hill, was a candidate for the Detroit Pistons general manager job. Vincent Goodwill of The Detroit News is reporting that Hill has no interest in taking such a high ranking job this early after retirement.
Hill, though, has told people close to him he won’t consider a front-office position this close to retirement, but...
Via BlackSportsOnline
3 days ago
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Detroit Pistons drop season finale but Kentavious Caldwell-Pope shines
It’s been another long, disappointing season for the Detroit Pistons, but rookie Kentavious Caldwell-Pope showed some potential in the season finale.
The Pistons went into Oklahoma City to take on likely MVP Kevin Durant and the Thunder without Josh Smith and Rodney Stuckey. Interim coach John Loyer decided to start Caldwell-Pope and KCP showed why Loyer had faith in him. Caldwell...
Via Detroit Sports Nation
3 days ago
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Grant Hill is a candidate for the Pistons GM job
A few days ago, the Pistons announced that Joe Dumars would no longer be general manager of the team. Even though he was the architect behind the 2004 championship team, this is a “what have you done for me lately?” […]
Via The Kevin Burke Project
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Scott Perry, Grant Hill On Pistons' List To Take Over Front Office
The Detroit Pistons have Scott Perry and Grant Hill on their list of potential candidates to take over as president after the resign of Joe Dumars.
Hill began his NBA career with the Detroit Pistons and has served as an NBA analyst since retiring from the league last year.
Perry is an assistant general manager with the Orlando Magic. He has held positions under Dumars with the...
Report: Grant Hill Candidate For Pistons GM Job
ESPN’s Marc Stein is reporting that the Detroit Pistons have interest in Grant Hill as a possible successor to Joe Dumars as the teams GM.
Pistons vowing broad search for Joe Dumars' successor, but two names already in circulation to be on their list: Scott Perry and Grant Hill
— Marc Stein (@ESPNSteinLine) April 16, 2014
Pistons also said to have interest in talking to...
Via BlackSportsOnline
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Piston Chauncey Billups practices for front office
Chauncey Billups began thinking about life after basketball in 2005.
After helping the Pistons win their first title in 15 years, the Pistons guard wanted to learn about the business side of the NBA. Life in the front office.
So Billups began sitting in on meetings with then-team president Joe Dumars and his assistants, Scott Perry and John Hammond.
Billups learned how to set...
Via Pro Sports Daily
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Detroit Pistons: Season Grades and Analysis
Detroit Pistons: Season Grades and Analysis
By Jennifer Fazioli: Lead Writer At Hoopstuff…
Record: 29-52, 11th in the East
Analysis: Where have the ‘Bad Boys’ of the 1980s gone? The closest Detroit fans will come to reliving the Pistons’ heyday this year is the ESPN ’30 for 30’ documentary on those 80s teams scheduled to air this week. This year’s team was just bad...
Joe Dumars out; new interim leadership in Detroit Pistons front office
In Detroit’s front office, there is no more “life on Dumars.” The Pistons announced minutes ago that Joe Dumars will step aside as President of Basketball Operations, effective immediately. The team has already begun their search to fill the position, but no timetable has been set for when that replacement will be found.
Said Pistons owner Tom Gores in a prepared statement...
Via The Sports Bank
6 days ago
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Pistons Brandon Jennings Boo’d Up With Actress Tae Heckard For Her Birthday
Detroit Pistons guard Brandon Jennings is really excited about his new Boo, actress Tae Heckard – you’ve seen her on the TV show, “The Game” and in a lot of videos from the 00′s. Brandon flew his boo to Detroit over the weekend for her birthday to celebrate and made sure to document it for Instagram.
Tae seems to be loving all the attention. Check the quote she left...
Via Jocks and Stiletto Jill
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Joe Dumars reportedly out as Detroit Pistons president
At the end of yet another ugly season the Detroit Pistons have announced that they will not renew the contract of Joe Dumars. Dumars had been the Pistons’ team president since the 2000-01 season but struggled in recent years in rebuilding a team that lost so many key components from their 2004 championship team. The […]
Via Full Scale Sports
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