DETROIT – The Motor City Cruise announced today that they have completed the hiring process for their basketball operations staff, headed by President and General Manager, Rob Murphy. Jamaal Benjamin, Xavier Silas, Brian Boyle, and Marcus Stout will all work as assistant coaches on DJ Bakker’s staff. Benjamin, Silas, and Boyle all have previous experience […]
DETROIT – The Motor City Cruise have acquired returning players rights to Jared Cunningham from the Rio Grande Valley Vipers in exchange for a second-round pick in the 2022-23 G League Draft. Cunningham, a former first-round pick of the Cleveland Cavaliers, made his NBA debut in 2012. During his NBA career, Cunningham has appeared in […]
Club Set to Play Home Opener at New Wayne State Arena on November 11 Single-Game and Group Tickets On-Sale Today by Visiting Ticketmaster.com DETROIT – The G League and the Motor City Cruise announced today a full season schedule for the 2021-22 season, presented by Henry Ford Health System. The Cruise will open their inaugural […]
DETROIT – The Motor City Cruise announced today that DJ Bakker has been selected to serve as the franchise’s first head coach. Per team policy, the terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Bakker has spent the last three seasons as an Assistant and Player Development Coach under Dwane Casey and served as the Pistons […]
DETROIT – The Motor City Cruise, G League affiliate of the Detroit Pistons, will be hosting a local player tryout on September 15, 2021. Players who register will have the opportunity to compete for an invitation to Cruise training camp beginning in November. The tryout will be held at the Henry Ford Detroit Pistons Performance […]
For as thrilled as the Pistons were to find Luka Garza still available with the 52nd pick, even they weren’t quite sure whether their roster would have room for him as soon as the 2021-22 season. Then Summer League began and Garza made the choice obvious for them. Garza played well off the bench in […]
DETROIT – The Detroit Pistons announced today that the team has signed center Luka Garza and forward Chris Smith to two-way contracts. Per team policy, terms of the agreements were not disclosed. Garza, 6-11, 235, earned unanimous 2020-21 National Player of the Year honors after averaging 24.1 points, 8.7 rebounds, 1.7 assists, 1.6 blocks and […]
There was a time – and not all that long ago – when the guy good enough to sweep the major Player of the Year awards in college wouldn’t have lasted to the fifth pick, never mind the 52nd. So the Pistons didn’t have to bet much – because the history of the 52nd pick […]
DETROIT – The Detroit Pistons announced today the club’s schedule and roster for the MGM Resorts NBA Summer League 2021 to be held in Las Vegas from August 8-17 at the Thomas and Mack Center and Cox Pavilion on the campus of UNLV. The Pistons, guaranteed five games, will play four preliminary games from August […]
For the past four years, they’ve battled each other as Big Ten rivals. Now Isaiah Livers and Luka Garza team up with the Pistons to battle the perception that players who exhaust their college eligibility are likely to have limited NBA futures. Garza will get a head start on that endeavor as Livers recovers from […]
The Pistons didn’t have to travel far to scout their first pick of the NBA draft’s second round, Michigan’s Isaiah Livers. Livers, a Kalamazoo native and Michigan’s 2017 Mr. Basketball, was taken with the 42nd overall pick – the first of three second-round picks the Pistons carried into the draft. They stayed in the Big […]
The Pistons waited 51 years between No. 1 picks. Cade Cunningham hopes to make it worth the wait. After having 37 days since winning the NBA draft lottery on June 22 to explore every option, Pistons general manager Troy Weaver settled on the Oklahoma State freshman over every other player in a star-studded draft and […]
Just as the Pistons spent the past month learning everything they could about Cade Cunningham, so did the player tabbed nearly universally as the rightful No. 1 pick spend time since the June 22 lottery envisioning himself tugging on a Pistons jersey. “I love Detroit,” Cunningham, who indeed was drafted No. 1 in Thursday night’s […]
Rob Murphy easily remembers when he first met Troy Weaver. It was the spring of 2003 when Weaver was an assistant at Syracuse under Hall of Fame coach Jim Boeheim. Led by freshman star Carmelo Anthony, the Orangemen were marching toward the school’s first NCAA title. Murphy, whose coaching career began in the Detroit Public […]
Rob Murphy was coming of age in Detroit when the Bad Boys reigned over the NBA and were beloved in the city. As he began his coaching career in the same Detroit Public School League where he played as a student at Mumford High, the aspirational goal to be involved at basketball’s highest level, the […]
It wasn’t an original idea. But it was the best idea. Dylan Martin was the first of nine basketball fans to submit the winning entry of Motor City Cruise as the Detroit Pistons introduced the name of their G League affiliate on Friday. “I wanted to stay away from using Detroit, use something different to try and […]
Team Name Was Chosen as Part of Fan Contest Dylan Martin of Grandville, MI, Was First to Submit the Winning Name and Will Receive Four Courtside Season Tickets and VIP Package for the Inaugural Season DETROIT, MI (October 30, 2020) – The Detroit Pistons announced today the name and logo for their new NBA G League affiliate, […]