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Detroit Pistons’ Rodney Stuckey goes to the basket against Indiana Pacers’ Roy Hibbert, left, in the first half of an NBA basketball game Saturday, Dec.

But since he’s been out, serving a suspension from a 2010-11 late-season altercation, the Pistons have severely missed his presence.

Cleveland Cavaliers forward Samardo Samuels of Jamaica grabs a rebound in front of Detroit Pistons centre Ben Wallace in the first half of an NBA basketball game Wednesday, in Auburn Hills, Michigan.

Pistons rookie Brandon Knight drives to the basket against Cleveland’s Tristan Thompson.

The Pistons paraded in the old in Kid Rock and The Temptations. They paraded out the new in Lions defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh and singer Mike Posner.

Cleveland Cavaliers guard Ramon Sessions, right, drives against Detroit Pistons guard Brandon Knight in the first half of an NBA basketball game Wednesday, Dec.

The Goin’ to Work era Pistons branded themselves on not having a superstar. But by the 2004-05 season, I think Wallace was pretty close.

As I said in a recent article, part of that was the fact that it was the first game of the year.

The Pistons open their home for the 2011-2012 season tonight against some team from Cleveland I’ve never heard of before.

Since returning to the Pistons, Ben Wallace has been a positive influence on young players with the team.

The Indiana Pacers’ Danny Granger, left, and the Detroit Pistons’ Jason Maxiell battle for a rebound during the regular-season NBA opener for both teams on Monday night in Indianapolis.

Detroit Pistons’ Lawrence Frank talks with Greg Monroe in the first quarter of a preseason NBA basketball game against the Cleveland Cavaliers on Tuesday, Dec.

We all know the story by now. On November 19, 2004 the Indiana Pacers and Detroit Pistons blitzed the sporting world with frightful images of player-fan brutality rarely before seen in American sports.

Brandon Knight, the Pistons’ rookie point guard, was shooting buckets at one end of the court inside the team’s practice facility late last week, joking around with his new backcourt mate, Rodney Stuckey.

Rodney Stuckey is entering his fifth season with the Pistons, and it’s time for him to realize his full potential.

If I told you I think Joe Dumars is failing upwards for the second time in his career, with a period of succeeding downwards in the middle, would it make sense? Joe Dumars thought: “Hmmm. Billups, Hamilton, Prince, Sheed, and Ben Wallace.

Detroit’s Jonas Jerebko shoots between Cleveland’s Antawn Jamison and Anderson Varejao on Tuesday in Cleveland.

Will Bynum has been the backup point guard, as well as a fan favorite, in Detroit for the past three seasons.

“I know he was here at 5:30 a.m., I wasn’t, he was,” team president and general manager Joe Dumars said.

And then there were 13. The Pistons have cleared the three training camp additions of Jake Voskuhl , Brian Hamilton and Walker Russel Jr.

Detroit PistonsA coach Lawrence Frank was happy his team pulled out a close win.

As decisions by city councils go, the 4-3 vote Monday by the Troy City Council to turn down $8. Brandon Knight drives past Antawn Jamison in the first quarter of the Pistons 90-89 preseason win in Cleveland on Tuesday.

The Detroit Pistons will wrap up their NBA preseason schedule with a second game against the Cleveland Cavaliers on Tuesday night.

The Detroit Pistons will wrap up their NBA preseason schedule with a second game against the Cleveland Cavaliers on Tuesday night.

Jonas Jerebko was injured for the entire 2010-11 season, so all he could do was watch while the Detroit Pistons endured one embarrassment after another.

So far this NBA offseason and season, the Detroit Pistons have drafted a new point guard of the future, waived a shooting guard of their past, re-signed a small forward who coined buffoonery ,A lost an athletic, no defense power forward to the Boston Celtics, re-signed another, younger small forward they think will end up being a power forward, … (more)

In less than one week, Damien Wilkins has gone from being a surprise training camp invite of the Detroit Pistons to preseason Game One starter.

Optimally, AD is a 2 and Jerebko is a 3. CV is a3 point shooter, a 5th big. Voskuhl is ?, Maxiell is 6:7, Wallace is 37.

The Woman’s League of Battle Creek has made a $1,000 contribution to the Food Bank of South Central… The Detroit Pistons have retained Rodney Stuckey, a person familiar with the deal told The Associated Press on Saturday.

On Sept. 11, 2002, in the waning days before the Pistons were set to open training camp after a 50-win season, Joe Dumars and his staff made a bold move.