http://www.pistonsnews.com/blog Detroit Pistons NBA Blog with Pistons news, commentary and general opinion on the Detroit Pistons Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:51:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en By: Dustin Chapman Transactions Selected D.J. White 29th overall and traded his rights to Seattle for the rights to Walter Sharpe (32nd overall) and Trent Plaisted (46th overall). Selected Deron Washington 59th overall. Detroit didn’t necessarily impress anyone in this draft. Nothing great, nothing horrible. They did, however, deal out of the 29th pick ... http://www.pistonsnews.com/blog/Detroit-Pistons/2008-nba-draft-grades-detroit-pistons/ Larry Lage of Yahoo! Sports reports that the Detroit Pistons have promoted Michael Curry to head coach, subsequently following last week's firing of Flip Saunders. The Pistons chose not to look far for their fifth coach in nine seasons. Curry was on Saunders’ staff last season, his first as a coach, and ... http://www.pistonsnews.com/blog/Detroit-Pistons/michael-curry-named-head-coach/ Contrary to the early-week reports that suggested that Flip Saunders would remain the head coach of the Detroit Pistons, Larry Lage reports that the organization has decided to part ways after all. AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP)—Flip Saunders was fired as Detroit Pistons coach Tuesday, four days after his team was eliminated ... http://www.pistonsnews.com/blog/Detroit-Pistons/pistons-fire-flip-saunders/ According to DraftExpress, rumors suggest that Indiana forward D.J. White has received a late-first round draft promise; Detroit comes about as a strong possibility given their history. D.J. White may a promise from the Detroit Pistons at the end of the first round, according to sources with ties to the player. ... http://www.pistonsnews.com/blog/Detroit-Pistons/dj-white-detroit-bound/ By: Dustin Chapman The Detroit Pistons have advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals for the sixth straight year, as they closed out their Semi-Finals series against Orlando on Tuesday night. Sans Chauncey Billups, who sat out the final two games of the series nursing a strained right hamstring, the Pistons pulled ... http://www.pistonsnews.com/blog/Detroit-Pistons/detroit-advances-to-conference-finals/ After winning game one in their series against the Magic, the Detroit Pistons will need to keep on pumping on the gas or pay the price of splitting at home and having to go to Orlando tied 1-1. Players Stepping up Chauncey Billups has looked like the clutch, dominant point guard ... http://www.pistonsnews.com/blog/Detroit-Pistons/pistons-need-to-continue-dominance-in-game-two/    First to the good news, the Pistons whoop up on Washington and go 4-4 in the Preseason, not really nothing to be all excited about but I'd be pissed if we went 0-8 like Miami, that's just shameful. And Washington pretty much played their rotation throughout so it was good ... http://www.pistonsnews.com/blog/Detroit-Pistons/pistons-win-stuckey-breaks-hand/     Pistons went off on a two game road trip to Texas to play the Mavericks and Spurs and didn't really play well in either games. Both were blowouts as Detroit didn't shoot well from the field in either games and didn't really play that great of defense either as both ... http://www.pistonsnews.com/blog/Detroit-Pistons/pistons-winless-in-texas/ (3-2) Detroit Pistons @ (2-3) Dallas Mavericks 8:30pm TV20 Detroit    The Pistons head off to Texas for an back to back against the Dallas Mavericks and the San Antonio Spurs. Expect Tayshaun Prince, Rasheed Wallace, and Antonio Mcdyess to each sit out one game out of the two as Flip tries to ... http://www.pistonsnews.com/blog/Detroit-Pistons/off-to-texas/     A lot of talk going around the league right now that the Lakers are indeed ready to ship off Kobe which has many fans around the league hoping that maybe somehow, someway he ends up on their team. I've been on a few Pistons forums and even Pistons fans are ... http://www.pistonsnews.com/blog/Detroit-Pistons/kobe-to-detroit/