DETROIT - John Kuester juggled his lineup, benched veterans and tried seemingly every combination he could think of to shake the Detroit Pistons out of their funk. When none of it worked, he lost his job. The Pistons fired their embattled coach Sunday, four days after new owner Tom Gores completed an agreement to buy the team from Karen Davidson. Kuester, a former Benedictine standout, was 57-107 over two seasons with Detroit, which failed to make the postseason in consecutive years for the first time since missing the playoffs three straight times from 1993-95. This past season was a dreary one, with the proud franchise making more news for internal squabbling than any on- court accomplishments.
During the team's first six seasons in Detroit, no PSL alumni managed to crack the Pistons' regular-season roster, but severral came close. These men, "Jumpin'" Johnny Kline (Northwestern/Northeastern), in 1957, and Fred Prime (Mumford), Ed "Stone" Stewart (Miller/Northeastern), and Kenny Nevels (Chadsey), in 1962, each participated in preseason camps. [Kelser], the Pistons' No. 1 pick and the fourth overall selection in the 1979 NBA Draft, played three of his six NBA seasons with the Pistons. [James McElroy], who joined the Pistons from New Orleans, played only a portion of one season, before moving onto Atlanta, where he finished his seven-year NBA career. The Pistons were completely devoid of a PSL player during its fourth decade (1988-1997), but bounced back with three players in it...
NBA AUBURN HILLS, Mich. - Under normal circumstances, Lawrence Frank would have begun his tenure as the coach of the Detroit Pistons by talking about Tayshaun Prince, Richard Hamilton and Rodney Stuckey.
CLEVELAND - "I was so disappointed when the Pistons lost to the Cleveland Cavaliers, I could hardly sleep that night," said long-time Detroiter and Pistons' fan Irene Rutledge. I'm sick of the cheating," [Rasheed Wallace] said. The flopping and rewarding the flopping; that's not defense. I hope the league does something about it. "We have to go back to the drawing board," he said. "I don't think this team is slipping. Maybe other teams are trying to make themselves better and build up after what we've done over the last few years in the East (Conference). Other teams are starting to catch up."
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. - Rodney Stuckey scored 28 points and made a big steal in the final minute, helping the Detroit Pistons bounce back from an embarrassing start to the weekend with a 120-116 win over the Utah Jazz on Saturday night. One night earlier, Detroit used only six players in a lopsided loss at Philadelphia after several Pistons missed at least part of a team shootaround. Stuckey and Austin Daye, who arrived late to the shootaround and didn't play Friday, were back on the court against the Jazz. Daye scored 18 points, 11 in the fourth quarter.
Karen Davidson, 61, inherited the Pistons on March 13 when her husband, [Bill Davidson], died at 86. He left his wife a franchise that is estimated by Forbes as the fourth-highest valued in the 30-team NBA. Reports suggest that the Pistons are worth $479 million, trailing only the Los Angeles Lakers ($607 million), the New York Knicks ($596 million) and the Chicago Bulls ($511 million). This truth is the hurdle that Ms. Davidson will have to negotiate to profit from the Detroit Pistons and the Palace Sports & Entertainment, the umbrella group that owns and operates the Pistons, The Palace, DTE Energy Music Theatre and Meadow Brook Music Festival, is a legal minefield full of questions. The complicated shenanigans between the ownership of the Pistons and The Palace Sports & Enter...
Associated Press DETROIT -- Everyone knows that one guy. The guy who can't even think of leaving the house until the bed is perfectly made. That guy who has everything so perfectly organized, if anyone moves something just the slightest, he notices. That guy who keeps track of every cent that he spends -- no matter how trivial the financial transaction appears to family and friends.
At a time when Isiah Thomas is referenced more for his lack of coaching and management success than for his brilliance on the basketball court as a player, a story offers a lesson from Thomas into being a part of a championship team. Bill Simmons of ESPN recently wrote an outstanding book for fans of the National Basketball Association titled, "The Book of Basketball." Simmons writes about a chance meeting with Thomas years after his playing career was over, when Thomas shared what he learned from the great Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers teams of the 1980s and then applied it to his Detroit Pistons teams that eventually won NBA championships as well.
With the expiring contracts of [Allen Iverson] and Rasheed Wallace offering around $33 million in cap relief, the Pistons may receive several phone calls before the trading deadline. However, I can't imagine anyone who's desperate enough to take on (let's call 'em) chemistry concerns posed by Iverson or Wallace would cough up anything even close to being worth Detroit's potential cap relief. So far, this year's defensive efficiency is even lower than the Suns mustered under D'[Antoni] last year. A trade of Raja Bell and Boris Diaw to Charlotte sort of contradicted the commitment to guarding the opposition because Bell and [Shawn Marion] had been the Suns' best defenders. While [Steve Nash] - who didn't seem to assist the [Terry Porter] transition by pining for the D'Antoni days - is a r...
Pistons 104, Celtics 92 AUBURN HILLS, Mich. | Kevin Garnett left in the first quarter with a leg injury, and the Celtics looked ragged without him in a loss to the Pistons on Wednesday night.
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