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The Piston Post – a Detroit Pistons blog

Done and done: the Pistons have agreed with ex-Knick T-Mac on a 1-year, $1.35 million deal.
Pretty good deal, if you ask me (you are asking me, right?).
There’s been a lot of negative chatter on the efficiency of this move, but from one Dumars critic to another, I’m just not buying much of it. Offer McGrady anything above the veteran’s minimum, and my tone might be a bit different. The truth is, the Pistons are gambling pocket change for a guy who just might stay healthy/keep a positive attitude this time. …

Not much going on in the Pistons’ frame of free agency lately. However, I managed to scrounge up a few scraps from under sports media’s dining room table:
Sadly, the most exciting waiver wire tidbit is that Brad Miller is still available for the time being. While I am (admittedly) not the biggest Dumars supporter lately, his silence during free agency is understood. Take a look at this summer’s free agency signings and you’ll get it. If the Darko Milicic and Amir Johnson “bargains” weren’t enough, Tyrus Thomas just landed a …

Freep is reporting Ben Wallace is about to ink a two-year contract at $1.9 million per season. At that price, Ben is a bargain for the level of play and rebounding numbers he gave in 2009-10. Of course, the Pistons can’t put a price on the [potential] tutoring of Greg Monroe. Ben said that he wants to retire as a Piston, so I’m making a pretty safe assumption that these two years will be his last.
From freep.com:
Free agent big man Ben Wallace has agreed to a two-year deal at $1.9 …

Happy Independence Day! Here’s a quick roundup of NBA free agent happenings around the league:
The Pistons are holding off on Will Bynum – As Vince Ellis points out, I’m on the fence about the strategy here. When Darko is getting paid $5 million a year, there’s no telling what kind of crazy offer could come Will’s way.
Add Amir Johnson to the list of hilariously ridiculous contracts – 5-year, $34 million. No, that’s not a typo. Almost $7 million a year for a guy who averaged 6 points and 5 boards …

Fear not! As tempting as complete blog abandonment would seem after a 27-55 season, I couldn’t bring myself to do it. In all reality, due to the current state of Michigan’s employment market, I have recently completed a complete relocation to Dallas, Texas. Here, in the presence of such basketball icons as Mark Cuban, Dirk Nowitzki, and Jason Kidd, I pledge to stand my ground in the name of the Detroit Pistons and to divert my eyes in the presence of American Airlines Center. Pistonpost.com will continue, and I hope …

Let’s face it, this isn’t exactly a high point in any Pistons fan’s year. The team is 23-50, has lost eight games in a row, and is rotting at the bottom of the Central division, 34.5 games behind Cleveland.
So, it is with a putrid combination of basketball misery and hockey/baseball optimism that I present the top five reasons to support the Wings and Tigers while the Pistons play golf and pray for a high lottery pick.
5. Pavel Datsyuk, Henrik Zetterburg and…Todd Bertuzzi? Wings fans have come to expect Datsyuks’s magic …

Warning: This post is spiteful, unprofessional, and would probably earn me a $100,000 Van Gundy fine if I worked within the annals of the NBA.
First: last night’s game between against the Cavs was despicable. Not in relation to how the Pistons played (surprisingly), but how the sickening officiating robbed Detroit of a blood-sweat-and-tears kind of win. A Ben-less Pistons team that turned up every ounce of their game, made all the right runs at all the right times, and had an answer to everything Cleveland threw at them — except …

You hear about things like this happening once and a while in the sports world, but you never really think it’s going to happen to the team or players close to you. Rodney Stuckey collapsed on the bench during the 3rd period of the Pistons-Cavs game Friday night and had to be transported to the Cleveland Clinic via ambulance.
As of now, the best update I have is the Pistons Twitter (and ESPN) saying that they believe Rodney had some sort of seizure on the bench. Seeing him grasping Arnie Kander …

Along with every NBA All-Star game come the inevitable remarks and dubious blog posts questioning the validity of the event, along with comments of how x isn’t on the team, but y made it and everybody knows how terrible y really is. This just happens to be one of those articles. Welcome to my very own mock 2010 All-Star team:
West Starters
Chris Paul. Continues to play out the dictionary definition of “point guard”. Leads the league with 11.1 assists per game, right on par with his recent career numbers. I have …