Should be exciting.

We should play Cleveland on X-mas. Think of the star power.

We should play Cleveland on X-mas. Think of the star power.
Yeah, 2-0.

LEBRON! SHAQ! VILLANUEVA! WILCOX! IT'S THE NBA ON ABC!

It's Bynumite.

Here you go, PISTONS FANS

http://www.nba.com/pistons/schedule/

Tough early run marks Pistons' 2009-10 schedule
Into the Fire

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by Keith Langlois

John Kuester’s debut as an NBA head coach won’t be made any easier by the schedule maker. The Pistons will open the season by playing nine of their first 14 games on the road. After starting with three late-October games against non-playoff teams from last season, nine of the Pistons’ 14 November games will come against playoff teams.

The Pistons open the 2009-10 season at Memphis on Oct. 28. Their home opener - marking the first Pistons appearances at The Palace for newcomers Ben Gordon, Charlie Villanueva, Chris Wilcox and a group of four rookies - will come two nights later against Oklahoma City.

The schedule features 23 sets of back-to-back games and the home schedule is typically loaded on weekends with nine Friday, five Saturday and nine Sunday dates at The Palace. On the road, the Pistons play 11 Wednesday games and nine more on Tuesday. Overall, 41 Pistons games - half the schedule - will be held on weekend dates.

Orlando, with trade addition Vince Carter joining Dwight Howard, opens a busy November by coming to The Palace on Nov. 3. Later that month, Kuester will face a challenging four-game road trip to the West Coast that begins with a back-to-back set against Kobe Bryant and the Lakers followed by a date in Portland against Brandon Roy’s Trail Blazers. The Pistons wind up that trip with another back-to-back at Utah and Phoenix.

When they return from out West, LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers will open the traditional Thanksgiving weekend set - games Wednesday, Friday and Sunday that will also feature visits from the Los Angeles Clippers, featuring No. 1 pick Blake Griffin, and the Atlanta Hawks, No. 4 seed in the East last season.

December opens and closes with games against Central Division rival Chicago, on the road Dec. 2 and at home for the traditional New Year’s Eve matinee, the first meetings for Gordon against his former team.

Ex-Pistons coach Flip Saunders takes his new team, the Washington Wizards with a healthy Gilbert Arenas, to The Palace on Dec. 6. Chauncey Billups and the Denver Nuggets will be in town two nights later. Bryant and the Lakers drop in for a Sunday visit five days before Christmas, which will be bracketed by games on the 23rd and 27th by games against Toronto, fortified by free-agent addition Hedo Turkoglu and lottery pick DeMar DeRozan.

The new year will open with a daunting back-to-back at Dallas and San Antonio. Among the highlights of January’s home schedule are visits from Chris Paul and New Orleans on Jan. 15 and a visit from Rasheed Wallace and Boston on Jan. 20. The Pistons will close January, in fact, with six straight home games, capped by matchups with Dwyane Wade’s Miami Heat and Orlando on the final weekend.

February, broken up by the All-Star break, will be a road-heavy month for the Pistons as they’ll be at The Palace for only five games. And even though the Pistons play fewer games in February, 13, than any other full month, it features their most back-to-back sets, five. Antonio McDyess and San Antonio, which also picked up Richard Jefferson this summer to go with the Spurs’ big three of Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili, is due in Auburn Hills on Feb. 21. The Pistons close the month with another four-game West Coast swing highlighted by a game at Denver on Feb. 26.

March opens with another visit from the Celtics. The Pistons will get a heavy dose of Cleveland and James during the month, facing them three times in a 16-day span, including a March 15 game at The Palace. They’ll close the month with home games against Chicago and Miami.

Two of the Pistons’ eight April games come against Atlanta in a five-day span. The month opens with a visit from Phoenix, led by Steve Nash and Amare Stoudemire. The home finale is set with Toronto on April 12. The Pistons conclude the regular season at Minnesota on April 14.

Thirty of the Pistons’ 82 games will be played against Western Conference teams - they meet each of the 15 teams from the opposite conference once each, home and away. Another 16 games come against Central Division rivals, meeting them four times apiece, two home and two road. The Pistons play 18 games against teams from each of the two other divisions of the Eastern Conference. They play three of the five teams in each division four times and play the remaining two of the five from each division three times each.

The four Eastern Conference teams the Pistons play only three times are Charlotte and Miami of the Southeast Division and Boston and New Jersey of the Atlantic. Miami and Boston both come to The Palace twice; Charlotte and New Jersey visit just once apiece.

LOL @ the first sentence. Why wait any longer than the first sentence to start the excuses?

We have Toronto twice at Christmastime, 23 and 27. I feel a Bosh trade to Detroit on the 25th.

IT'S SCRIPTED BABY

won’t be made any easier
challenging four-game road trip
another back-to-back
a daunting back-to-back
a road-heavy month
at The Palace for only five games
it features their most back-to-back sets, five
The Pistons will get a heavy dose

Bah, not one stretch is "grueling" or "crushing", we got off easy.

You should see Sacramento's schedule. They have a "devistating" home stand and a "Jesus fucking Christ my ass!" Texas triangle visit.

prediction: Pistons will never make it above .500 next season...

I get to see 4 games this year. Wow.

This might be the 1st year in a long time that I won't see any Pistons games. I think I'm going to buy the Wings next season instead of the Pistons.

I buy 3. Always get the Lions and Tigers and normally the Pistons. I'm not feeling it next year.

prediction: Pistons will never make it above .500 next season...

...they could easily start the season 3-0. You may want to check the schedule.
Your prediction won't last past October.

NEW YORK (AP)—The NBA is bringing Kobe Bryant(notes) and Shaquille O’Neal(notes) together again for Christmas—this time joined by LeBron James(notes).

Bryant and the defending champion Los Angeles Lakers will host the Cleveland Cavaliers on Dec. 25, one of the highlights of the 2009-10 NBA schedule released Tuesday.

It will be the fourth time in the five years since their partnership ended that Bryant and O’Neal will meet on Christmas. Traded to Cleveland in June, O’Neal will return to Los Angeles this year with James, who succeeded Bryant as MVP last season.

O’Neal and James will play their first game together in the NBA season opener, hosting the Boston Celtics on Oct. 27. The four-game slate that night concludes when the Lakers open their title defense against No. 1 draft pick Blake Griffin(notes) and the Clippers.

Defending Eastern Conference champion Orlando opens Oct. 28 against Philadelphia, then goes on the road two nights later to visit New Jersey, giving Vince Carter(notes) a quick return to his former home.

The Magic will visit the Lakers for an NBA finals rematch Jan. 18 as part of the schedule on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and Los Angeles will play at Orlando on March 7 for the first time since winning the title in June.

Orlando also plays on Christmas, hosting Boston in a matchup of the last two East champions. Miami at New York, the Clippers at Phoenix and Denver at Portland round out that day’s action.

This might be the 1st year in a long time that I won't see any Pistons games. I think I'm going to buy the Wings next season instead of the Pistons.

I buy 3. Always get the Lions and Tigers and normally the Pistons. I'm not feeling it next year.
Lions LOSE ALL their games last year, yet you keep on hanging on because they've won one playoff game in the past 50 years or some such shit. WTF?!

Pistons actually MAKE the playoffs last year, and you wanna throw 'em under the proverbial bus? With what we've gotten, if nothing else, I'm pretty sure we'll have a more exciting regular season than we did last year.

I'll never get Lions fans. Never. It's like watching people masturbate with fucking sandpaper.

Mxy watches people masturbate with sandpaper.

Solid.

Mxy watches people masturbate with sandpaper.
Ha! Funny guy. I've actually participated... woman I was with just got a Brazillian, didn't like the bald feel and had 3 days stubble and redness. That was rough.

Detroit Pistons preseason schedule released

by A. Sherrod Blakely
Thursday August 13, 2009, 3:00 PM

AUBURN HILLS - The new-look Detroit Pistons will see a familiar face next month when they face off in a preseason matchup against the Washington Wizards who are now coached by former Detroit coach Flip Saunders.

The Washington game, which will be played at Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids on Oct. 13, is among the highlights of Detroit's eight-game preseason schedule which kicks off Oct. 5 against Miami at the Palace of Auburn Hills.

Here's the preseason schedule in its entirety, with home games listed in ALL CAPS.

DATE OPPONENT TIME
Oct. 5 MIAMI 7:30 p.m.
Oct. 7 MILWAUKEE 7:30 p.m.
Oct. 11 ATLANTA 6 p.m.
Oct. 13 WASHINGTON 7 p.m. (played at Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids)
Oct. 15 at Dallas 8:30 p.m.
Oct. 17 at Memphis 8 p.m.
Oct. 22 MINNESOTA 7:30 p.m.
Oct. 23 at Milwaukee 8:30 p.m.

Van Gundy: Magic Disrepected by Schedule: http://bit.ly/3lqR3R

lolz

Oh look -- it's the Amway Hedgehog, disrespecting my Kobe-LeBron matchup! Go back to porn and make someone else whine like a bitch, you bitch.