The first day of the NBA Draft Combine is in the books. This year's prospective first and second rounders were split-up into respective groups based on position, put through numerous physical skill and shooting drills, and must now wait for the team-scheduled interviews later in the night. As each team is only given 18 official combine interviews by the NBA, a team's interest in a player can suddenly become "common knowledge" based on the selectivity of the process. Pertaining to the Detroit Pistons, Pistons.com writer Keith Langlois was in Chicago tweeting the live updates about who the Pistons are planning on interviewing.
Detroit Pistons NBA Draft Combine Update: Day 1
May 16th, 2013 at 4:21 PMBy Phil Fattore
Detroit Pistons Will Have Eye on Small Forwards at NBA Draft Combine
May 16th, 2013 at 9:23 AMBy Phil Fattore
The Detroit Pistons need for a small forward has been noted has "priority no. 1" since Tayshaun Prince was traded to the Memphis Grizzlies at the trade deadline of the 2012-13 season. With the rookie emergence of Andre Drummond locking-up his front court spot alongside Greg Monroe, the Pistons are going to have to find an athletic wing (with a jump shot) who can draw out defenders from the paint, and allow the two "bigs" to work down low. Whether that wing comes out of the nearly $25 million free agent spending the Pistons are likely to use, or through the NBA Draft is irrelevant. Still, with the NBA Draft Combine starting today let's point out three names that have been linked to the Pistons by the mock-draft gods in the past weeks.
Names to Watch at the 2013 NBA Draft Combine
May 15th, 2013 at 10:17 AMBy Phil Fattore
News broke yesterday that the Detroit Pistons had requested an interview with Indiana Pacers associate head coach Brian Shaw for the Pistons' vacant head coaching seat. As the Pacers have the day off from the NBA Playoffs after defeating the New York Knicks 93-82 in Game 4 last night, an interview between Shaw and Joe Dumars could come as early as this afternoon. Tomorrow, the NBA Draft Combine will begin in Chicago's Attack Athletics complex, and a different set of interviews will take place. With college basketball's best talents all under one roof, expect Joe Dumars to hold a few player interviews as he narrows down his "big board" for the June 27th NBA Draft.
| Steven Adams | Pittsburgh |
| Lorenzo Brown | North Carolina State |
| Reggie Bullock | North Carolina |
| Trey Burke | Michigan |
| Kentavious Caldwell-Pope | Georgia |
| Isaiah Canaan | Murray State |
| Jackie Carmichael | Illinois State |
| Michael Carter-Williams | Syracuse |
| Allen Crabbe | California |
| Seth Curry | Duke |
| Brandon Davies | BYU |
| Dewayne Dedmon | Southern California |
| Gorgui Dieng | Louisville |
Detroit Pistons to Interview Former Phil Jackson Assistant Brian Shaw
May 14th, 2013 at 2:51 PMBy Phil Fattore
Having already interviewed four coaching candidates (Nate McMillan, Lindsey Hunter, Mike Budenholzer, and J.B. Bickerstaff), today's report that the Detroit Pistons are currently without a "leading candidate" may have come as a surprise to those following the head-coaching search. Last week the Pistons announced that 11-time World Champion head coach Phil Jackson was going to be assisting in the search as a consultant, and since then no news out of the Palace of Auburn Hills has carried the Jackson "stamp." That all changed with the news of Brian Shaw, former Jackson assistant, being brought in for a head coaching interview with the Pistons.
Indiana Pacers associate head coach Brian Shaw has been contacted by the Detroit Pistons to interview for the team's head coaching job, according to a source with knowledge of the situation.The source also said Shaw has been contacted by the Brooklyn Nets.
"I want to be in a situation where I have a chance," Shaw said of the Charlotte Bobcats coaching job last offseason.
Detroit Pistons Reportedly Without “Leading Candidate” in Coaching Search
May 14th, 2013 at 10:53 AMBy Phil Fattore
In the search for the next head coach of the Detroit Pistons, so far president of basketball operations Joe Dumars has interviewed four 'known" candidates. Sit-downs with Nate McMillan, Lindsay Hunter, San Antonio Spurs assistant head coach Mike Budenholzer, and Houston Rockets assistant J.B. Bickerstaff have all taken place at Six Championship Drive. Still, according to David Mayo of Mlive.com, team sources have confirmed that the Pistons don't yet have a "leading candidate."