Deleterious

For what? Jonas Jerebko's E-Sport team?

Pistons would help themselves beating Minnesota tonight. Edwards is questionable and McDaniels is out. With only 7 games left it appears the Minnesota pick will fall into the 21/22/23 slot with Detroit being 28th. So they move up a bit, but its pretty pointless. Vecenie said most players in that range are so similar they could go 20th or 30th. I do see people saying the Pistons should try to move up. Terrible idea IMO. Vecenie also said for the first time in his career he will be giving out more than 30 1st round grades. So the draft is deep. In deep drafts you don't move up, you accumulate extra picks. OKC should be a target of Detroit to acquire an extra pick. Currently, they are 15th. Well, the Clippers are 15th but it goes to OKC. There were reports around the trade deadline OKC would move this year's pick for future picks if they didn't end up top 5. They don't want to add guaranteed contracts to their expensive roster. They want to push those picks off a few years when they start to ship out more expensive players.

We haven't had an American MVP winner since Harden in 2018. I don't see an American winning it in the immediate future either. If one does, it will probably be the result of the 65 game rule. Who are the American candidates? Cade, Ant, Brown, Tatum, Jalen Johnson? Great players but a step behind the four foreign players, probably. Maybe the way Europeans develop youth talent is better than our system. Ironically, Americans would have a fit if a 14 or 15-year-old turned pro like Luka did. But they are perfectly fine with a kid the same age being taken advantage of by AAU coaches and shoe companies.

Jokic has now clinched a triple double for the season. The second time he has averaged that in his career. I think I read he will also be the first player to lead the league in rebounds per game and assists per game.

Stew gets overlooked with Cade being out. But I'm starting to get a bit concerned about his injury. A second year missing the playoffs due to injury might make them consider moving him this summer.

The national media sure is carrying Luka's water for MVP.

On livestream, Jaden Ivey says he had suicidal thoughts after breaking his leg Did the Pistons think Jesus had healed him? At this point it isn't even about basketball anymore. I hope he can get some help.

The Spurs tanked that year. I think most looked at how easy the schedule was and figured they would still finish 1st in the east. A try hard team like Detroit is in perfect position to overcome injuries. They win games by playing hard every night and don't rely on talent as a crutch like a lot of teams. Huge credit to JB for getting that out of his team. Some of us have questioned if that advantage goes away in the playoffs. No odd travel, no Nets/Bulls/Pelicans in 3 of their next 4 games, no fake injuries to rest, teams will all be playing hard, etc. I do think they will struggle to win a series without Cade. The good news is, it sounds like he will be back for the playoffs.

11-4 without Cade this year. The 15 opponents they played have a winning% of 44.2%. So a back of the draft lottery level opponent.

Lucky for all of the "no respect" people the NBA has a mechanism for teams to earn respect. It starts in 2 1/2 weeks.

Tiger announced he is stepping away from golf for awhile. So he will miss the Masters. Not that it matters.

So much of the Pistons offense is triggered by their defense. Much of that is triggered by Ausar.

No. Its no attempt no miss.

The Masters released a searchable shot database. It includes every shot in the final round from 1968-2025. It requires an account to be made so I didn't get to try it out. https://www.masters.com/vault/index.html

Like Buddha said, SGA gets a crazy whistle. In 64 games he has attempted 530 FT's. In 61 games Cade has attempted 310

Another way to protect yourself if you are not a good player. Make sure they owe you an absurd amount of money.

If we needed another data point on the basketball hall of fame being a joke. Doc Rivers was just elected to the hall.

If Ivey scored 17PPG, shot 40% from three, and played a little defense, he would still be employed.

SGA has not missed a shot in the 4th quarter for 7 games in a row

If was the fastest double-double in league history. 8m41s.