Rod­ney Stuckey

Pis­tons guard Rod­ney Stuckey could return to prac­tice as soon as Thurs­day, accord­ing to head coach John Kuester.

Kuester said Mon­day night that Stuckey is doing great 10 days after he left the arena on a stretcher after col­laps­ing dur­ing a loss at Cleveland.

Stuckey has now missed Detroit’s last five games.

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The Palace at Auburn Hills

Mayor Dave Bing this morn­ing expressed opti­mism that the Detroit Pis­tons could move back downtown.

“I think we can get the Pis­tons down­town,” Bing said dur­ing a meet­ing with media executives.

Karen Dumas, Bing’s direc­tor of com­mu­ni­ca­tions, said the mayor is hope­ful that the dynam­ics – the poten­tial sale of the Pis­tons and the Red Wings need­ing a new home – could bring a new arena to the city’s busi­ness district.

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Rod­ney Stuckey

Detroit Pis­tons guard Rod­ney Stuckey col­lapsed Fri­day night in the sec­ond half of a loss to the Cleve­land Cav­a­liers right by the Detroit Pis­tons bench.

Plenty of tests have been done on the 23-year-old since then and it is look­ing very pos­si­ble that he may have to miss the rest of the sea­son, accord­ing to sources.

“I’m good, every­thing is good,” Stuckey told the paper, but also pointed out that nobody seemed to have an expla­na­tion as to what hap­pened on Friday.

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Rod­ney Stuckey

Update: Stuckey is report­edly con­scious and breath­ing on his own in a nearby health clinic.

Pis­tons guard Rod­ney Stuckey report­edly suf­fered a seizure after he walked off the court for a time­out with 2:30 remain­ing in the third quar­ter of Friday’s game against the Cleve­land Cav­a­liers at Quicken Loans Arena.

Stuckey, 23, was taken from the bench on a stretcher and trans­ported to the Cleve­land Clinic, accord­ing to ESPN. The net­work reported that Stuckey’s eyes were closed and he was receiv­ing oxy­gen as he left the court.

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Richard Hamil­ton

The Cavs have inten­si­fied trade talks over the past sev­eral days and have been mak­ing some progress, accord­ing to sources that spoke to Brian Wind­horst of the Plain Dealer.

Sev­eral sources have said Cleve­land has included the Hous­ton Rock­ets and Detroit Pis­tons in their con­ver­sa­tions, pos­si­bly in an attempt to set up three-team deals.

The Cavs’ major tar­gets are still believed to be for­wards Antawn Jami­son and Troy Mur­phy. But they have been hav­ing some con­ver­sa­tions about shoot­ing guards and the talks with the Pis­tons could involve Richard Hamilton.

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Drew Sharp

The Detroit Pis­tons could be sold. Pitts­burgh has a new arena, with a lot of dates to fill between Pen­guins games. Can the Pitts­burgh Pis­tons be far behind? Do not count on it.

But that has not stopped spec­u­la­tion about the poten­tial for the Pis­tons to move to Pitts­burgh, a city lit­tered with the car­casses of pro­fes­sional bas­ket­ball teams that came and failed.

It started with Detroit Free Press colum­nist Drew Sharp, who warned in a Jan. 23 col­umn that there is a pos­si­bil­ity that a buyer of the Pis­tons, the National Bas­ket­ball Asso­ci­a­tion fran­chise, could move them elsewhere.

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Glen Davis

Per­haps if you were watch­ing last night’s Celtics-Pistons game on tele­vi­sion or lis­ten­ing on the radio, you heard an exple­tive yelled out.

That was Boston’s Glen “Big Baby” Davis shout­ing at a Detroit fan who kept call­ing him “fat boy”’ dur­ing the first half. Davis’s graphic remark stunned fans sit­ting behind the Celtics’ bench.

The fan, Scott Zack, was warned by arena secu­rity about his heck­ling but was deter­mined to press the issue about Davis’s remark. Zack said he filed a com­plaint with NBA security.

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Joe Dumars

Joe Dumars broke up the Detroit Pis­tons when he was con­vinced they were no longer an East­ern Con­fer­ence power.

Now that Detroit’s record is among the worst in the league, the team’s pres­i­dent of bas­ket­ball oper­a­tions sounds like he is ready to make more moves over the next month.

“We will not be averse to being active before the trad­ing dead­line,” Dumars said.

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Tayshaun Prince

If the Pis­tons are going to break up their core, Marc Stein of ESPN.com writes that Tayshaun Prince is the player most likely to be traded.

Prince’s con­tract ends after the 2010-11 sea­son, dur­ing which he’ll make $11.1 million.

In addi­tion, Detroit has young guys (like Austin Daye, Jonas Jere­bko and DaJuan Sum­mer) who can han­dle mintues at small forward.

“I know there are a lot of con­ver­sa­tions going on,” one source said. “I’m sure Tay’s in play.”

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Darko Mili­cic

Darko Mili­cic told SLAM Mag­a­zine recently that the Pis­tons wasted the sec­ond over­all pick on him when they selected him back in 2003.

“They did,” Mili­cic said. “They did waste a pick. Why did they take me? Who knows if I really had a chance to play like these play­ers that play like Dwyane Wade or Carmelo. Those guys are incred­i­ble players.”

Mili­cic strug­gled on the bench in Detroit for three sea­sons before he was traded to Orlando. He has since landed in Mem­phis and New York and has said repeat­edly that this will be his final sea­son in the NBA.

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