Dennis Mannion Named President Of The Detroit Pistons And Palace Sports & Entertainment
The Detroit Pistons and Palace Sports & Entertainment announced today that Dennis Mannion has been appointed President, effective immediately.
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The Detroit Pistons and Palace Sports & Entertainment announced today that Dennis Mannion has been appointed President, effective immediately.
Don't look now, but the pace of the NBA's labor negotiation talks appears to be finally, mercifully, picking up.
Finally, officials from the NBA and the National Basketball Players Association sat across the table from each other in a negotiating session on Wednesday.
Top negotiators for NBA owners and players are back at the bargaining table for just the second time since the league's lockout began.
Ken Berger of CBSSports.com reported Friday that the league and players' union were set to meet sometime this week.
With a vital meeting taking place soon between the owners and players, the NBA's labor situation is about to get tense. Not just tense in terms of actual negotiating.
David Stern said a few weeks ago that he'd have an idea whether or not games were going to be missed this season by Labor Day.
The big fad seems to be planking now a days. The Detroit Pistons famous mascot Hooper decided to do some planking of his own.
While owners and players are not expected to hold the second full bargaining session of the lockout until next month, a high-level meeting of top negotiators for both sides will take place next week, a person with knowledge of the meeting confirmed to CBSSports.com on Thursday.
Since the lockout began, there have been discussions of the question, "Why don't the players just form their own league?"
State media says the Chinese Basketball Association will restrict contracted NBA players from playing for domestic teams in the event the U.S. season is canceled but will allow free-agents.
Scotty Robertson, who coached the Pistons from 1980-'83, had battled cancer. He was 81.
The National Basketball Association announced today that the Detroit Pistons will open their eight-game 2011 preseason schedule at home against the Minnesota Timberwolves on Sunday, October 9
One class was sexy, ego-driven and had plenty of flair, while the other took more time to develop and lacked the star power.
The NBA currently has thirty teams, but the league's commissioner, David Stern, seems open to the possibility that that number of franchises could shrink in the future.
