I think they just had a decent team that needed a LOT of NBA practice. They were young and the NBA is a huge shock in terms of how much better the players are.
Yes, I presume Bickerstaff(??) has helped. He must be better than what they had.
I’m a lifelong Pistons fan and am glad to see them competitive.
How the hell did Charlotte lose by 13 in an overtime game?! God dammit.
So Draymond Green blocks Wembanyama (no easy feat), and the latter alley oops on the former, who then gets all pissed off about it, as only Green can, and everyone has go pull them apart in yet another Green-instigated melee. When is this asshole going to be kicked out of the NBA?
I think the answer to that question has proven thus far to be a resounding NOPE!
We’re 1-12 through the first 13 games. Pretty much everybody is injured. Aaron Nesmith, Obi Toppin, Benedict Mathurin, Johnny Furphy, Quenton Jackson. Tyrese Haliburton, of course, is out for the season. TJ McConnell only recently returned from injury.
We’re running with Pascal Siakam and a bunch of role players who weren’t expected to start this year.
At least we own our own 2026 first-rounder. Who should we get?
Maybe they ate too many fajitas the night before?
Actually, this is pretty cool.
Charlotte Hornets rookie Kon Knueppel got the chance to play in his hometown of Milwaukee for the first time in his young career, and he took the idea of a homecoming game quite literally.
The first-round draft pick invited the whole Hornets team over to his family’s home a night before facing the Bucks.
Link to MSN
No idea, but its supposed to be a really good draft.
Former Sixth Man of the Year Rodney Rogers has passed away. He was drafted by Denver in 1993 and spent 12 years in the NBA. His #54 is retired by Wake Forest.
He retired in 2005, and suffered a life-altering accident in 2008 that paralyzed him from the shoulders down.
Chris Paul’s last season in the NBA has taken a turn for the weird, as the Clippers announced they are parting ways with him. They did this in the middle of the night, while on a road trip to Atlanta.
There is speculation that Giannis may be on his way out of Milwaukee.
As a Pacers fan, I for one would love to see the Bucks disintegrate.
Getting cut at the start of your farewell tour by your home franchise is WILD. Dude must be extremely disliked in that organization.
I was looking at the standings earlier today and was quite surprised to see that the OKC Thunder is 21-1.
The best start ever to an NBA season is the 2015-2016 Warriors, who started 24-0. OKC probably now has the second best.
LeBron James’ unprecedented streak of 1,297 consecutive double-digit scoring games came to an end tonight, but he did get the game-winning assist to Rui Hachimura as the Lakers beat the Raptors.
The Pacers won their fifth game of the season by stomping the Chicago Bulls tonight. We’re 5-18, and no longer worst in the conference. We’re also in no real danger of clinching the worst record of all-time.
Two years ago, Pistons were astonishingly bad.
I’ve been watching this year and, man, they look amazing. I think it is:
Replacing their coach
Lots of young guys needing a year or so NBA play to elevate their game
They are a fun, young, and highly dangerous team now.
The Piston’s turnaround is more shocking than last years Cleveland.
Yeah, they made the playoffs last year, but this year they look like all the talent has matured and is firing.
There is real possibility OKC will be the first NBA team to go 74-8 or better.
They are 24-1 right now if they beat the Suns, and would only need to go 50-7 the rest of the way to do it.
Their current record of 23-1 is a winning percentage of .958. If they keep up that pace, they will win 78 of their 82 games.
Based on your success at predictions in other sports threads, I’m going to say they will not reach 74 wins. Extrapolating from past results rarely works out.
Former NBA center Jason Collins, the first Big Four sportsman to come out as gay during his playing career, has announced that he has terminal stage 4 glioblastoma, a form of brain cancer.
His career spanned 13 years. He was drafted by the Houston Rockets as the 18th overall pick in 2001, and traded to the New Jersey Nets on draft night. He played on the Nets’ Eastern Conference championship teams of 2002 and 2003.
He also played for Memphis, Minnesota, Atlanta, Boston, and Washington, before ending his career with the same team he started with (now in a different location), the Brooklyn Nets.