Rodney Stuckey collapsed on the Pistons bench near the end of the third quarter on Friday, and some ESPN reporters described it as a "violent seizure."  Stuckey was carted off the court, taken by ambulance to the Cleveland Clinic, and it has since been announced that he is in stable condition.  According to John Kuester, Stuckey "will be OK."

We can only hope so.  Keep him in your thoughts and prayers tonight, Pistons fans.

UPDATE: From Yahoo: "Team sources told Yahoo! Sports’ Adrian Wojnarowski that Stuckey didn’t have a seizure, as some initial reports suggested. “He was lightheaded and couldn’t get his bearings, but he never lost consciousness,” one source said."

[Detroit News]

This is one of the few Clippers fans who showed up at last night's Pistons/Clippers game.  He's an innocent doucher who just wanted to let the Pistons know how he felt about them after Rasual Butler hit a game tying three-pointer with 9:32 left in the fourth quarter.  Children look on and fittingly, Butler hit the dagger three-pointer late in the game, as well.  Bingo.

Well this is kind of how I feel about the Pistons after this loss.  First of all, I stayed up late when I could have been studying or sleeping.  I thought maybe, just maybe they'd cake-walk this one - after all, they were up by as many as 12 and somewhat coasting for three and a half quarters.  Then they just totally effed with my emotions at the end. They went back and forth, fell behind by three, tied it with a three, fell behind again, failed to score when down by two (Rodney Stuckey was mugged), Clippers go up four with less than 10 seconds left and it's all but over.

But wait!

Rip Hamilton threw up a desperation three, on which he was fouled.  The shot went in and out, but if that wasn't enough of a "fuck you" moment, well then proceeding to miss three straight free throws certainly was.  Yes, the Piston who was just 10 free throws from breaking Joe Dumars all-time Pistons mark for consecutive free throws made coming into the game, missed three in a row to seal the Pistons fate at the end.

Big ol' middle fingers to the Pistons, with children looking on, is 100% right.

What up D4L, coming at you live from my parents' house, recovering from hernia surgery (that means I'm an athlete, right?). It's been a little while since my last post, but after a few days of Vicodin and creamsicles, I think I'm ready get back on the saddle.

Being home all day long means I get to watch 12 consecutive hours of sports programming--from Mike and Mike in the Morning all the way through PTI. And they all are leaning towards the same sentiment: Johnny Damon may be a Tiger this season.

ESPN's Jayson Stark reported that the Tigers have offered Damon the most money thus far, somewhere in the $7 million mark a year. Atlanta has offered close to that figure as well. My guess is Damon will sign with the Tigers. Damon's defense is a liability, and playing for an AL playoff contender where he can DH would suit him much better.

I hope Detroit makes this happen. They were one playoff-play-in game away from winning the Central last season. So what did they do? Traded away arguably their franchise player to build for the future. I'm not saying that I agree or disagree with the trading of Granderson, but regardless, I hate seeing a team so close almost give up on the next season. Signing Damon, who had a higher batting average, on-base percentage and more runs than Granderson, would give Detroit a better leadoff hitter while saving all the money that would have been owed to Granderson. This would justify the Granderson trade and allow the Tigers to play for the future and for the now.

The Detroit Pistons commence the most critical stretch of their season tonight in New Jersey (7:30 p.m. ET via FSN). This "stretch" includes six games against teams in the bottom third of the NBA, with two of the games pitting the Pistons against the New Jersey Nets. The 4-42 Nets are a team on pace to become the worst in NBA history.

For the 'Stons to have any shot at the playoffs this season, they'll need to go around 26-10 from this point on. This would make them a .500 ball club and give them an outside chance at post-season basketball. The Pistons' players are staying optimistic, as evidenced by one of Charlie Villanueva latest Twitter rants statements saying "we've still got a lot of games to be played. We can still make a playoff push. The guys think we can still do it."

Sorry, Charlie. I don't see it happening. While I like the Pistons optimism, they are simply staying P.C. and saying what needs to be said.

So why are these six upcoming games so important, you ask? To which I boldly reply, "THE JOHN  WALL SWEEPSTAKES!". If you've been under a rock, or just aren't hip to what's cool, John Wall is Kentucky's freshman point guard who has been consensually declared the decade's best NBA prospect since King James and Superman Howard. (By the way, you too can play the "John Wall (Mock) Sweepstakes" here. It only took me 19 tries to put him in a Piston uni!)

The Pistons road map to success includes heavy doses of Chucky Atkins, Kwame  Brown and hopefully a few ten-day contract schmucks. Yes, in my heart of hearts, I want the losses to pile up, but only because I want more of those beautiful ping pong balls flowing in come draft time. Take heed, you nasty Net fans, I actually envy you.

[MLive]

Pistons had the lead late against the Memphis Grizzlies-Adams and blew it.  They allowed them to score the final eight points and fell by six, 99-93.  Baby Gasol and Zach Randolph combined for 49 points and 25 rebounds for the winning Griz. 

I know what you're thinking, this innuendo I've pulled is highly inappropriate.  You're right.  And what might be more inappropriate is the fact that I took this screen shot of Arnie Kander rubbing Stuckey's... calf (c'mon, now...) knowing full well that there was a good chance the Pistons were going to blow it (the lead) and lose, so I'd be able to use it.  Shame on me, but shame on the Pistons for making my dirty little intuition right.

Pistons return to action on Friday when the Heat come into town.  The Pistons are 15-29 now and seven games out of the final playoff spot.  Paging John Wall.

The Pistons fell behind by 18 points early and despite a fierce 2nd half comeback that allowed them to take the lead, they were not able to hold off the Blazers on Saturday night.  With less than 25 seconds remaining the Pistons missed three three-pointers to potentially tie the game and in the end fell by four to the equally depleted Blazers'.

The real TV entertainment drama of the game came near the end of the 3rd quarter when Rudy Fernandez drove to the hoop and Charlie Villanueva wrapped him up and lightly tossed him.  Fernandez is coming off a back injury, so naturally, the Blazers immediately went to defend him.  Juwan Howard was the first on the scene and shoved Charlie Villanueva.  CV responded by trying to choke Howard out, but the two players were separated before it got 'Malice at the Palace 2'-out-of-hand.  Both were T'd up, but neither was ejected.  I'm sure each will receive a fine and/or suspension from the NBA.

Here's a pic of CV putting his hand on Howard's neck and Howard with his hands on CV:

[via Blazers Edge]

With their 33-point loss to the Bulls on Monday night, the Pistons have now lost 13 straight games (their longest losing streak since the '93-94 season).  They have not won a game in officially a month now (December 12th vs. Golden State).  A lot has happened over the past month and if you're a Pistons fan like me, you've been wallowing in a pool of sorrow, so you've probably missed it all.

So here's a list of sports stories since the Pistons last victory to help you catch up:

• The Colts & Saints were still thinking about a perfect season.  The Colts won their 14th game and then lost their final two games.

• The New England Patriots' mascot was arrested after being caught in a hotel prostitution sting.

• A-Rod dumped Kate Hudson after she was tabbed as his lucky charm throughout his hot streak en route to a Yankees World Series.

• Darko Milicic decides he's had enough sucking in the NBA and will return to Europe to play basketball.

• Bengals WR, Chris Henry, died after falling off the bed of a truck being driven by his fiance.

• Brett Favre gets into an argument with coach Brad Childress regarding Childress' plans to bench Favre.  They have since made up.

The Lakers fans certainly didn't deserve to keep the foam fingers for the way their team played and the way they acted, so they were just giving the Cavs a little extra Christmas present. That's what Fisher said to Mo Williams, too, when he tried to unnecessarily hump him.  For once, I think Lebron's bitching was warranted.

Flying foam fingers occurs around the 3 minute mark. Van Gundy stupidness occurs throughout.   As a Detroit Pistons fan I'm appalled and can't believe fans would do such a thing........

Well looky here, it's a human Q-tip.  Chase Budinger. 

What?  I'm just joking with the guy. Bringing a little sunshine into his life.  (looks back at Budinger) Careful, you'll peel...

..If you didn't see Casper put up a double-double last night against the Pistons, then you're not the only one.  He may have had a nice game and sure, the Pistons lost, but let's just do what we always do here -- make fun of the opposition to divert the attention.

Put on your SPF 70 and make some pale jokes in the comments.

I bet you didn't know that the Pistons best off-season acquisition was not Ben Gordon or Charlie Villanueva, but T.J. Lottie, Richard Hamilton's wife, whom he married in July this past summer. She has a killer jumper.

Okay, maybe she wasn't the best and maybe she didn't lead the PIstons to a victory at all, but she did convince her new hubby to stop being such a baby and to play basketball on Saturday against the Warriors:

"It wasn't feeling right, but I went home and my wife told me to stop feeling sorry for myself and to get out there and play," he said. "I haven't practiced, I haven't run, I haven't done sprints or anything like that, but I decided to go ahead and play."

Hamilton wound up scoring 18 points in the win over the Warriors.  He scored five consecutive points in a key spot with four minutes remaining in the game to put the Pistons up seven and for good.

The win was Detroit's 5th in a row.  Now if we can get the significant others of Will Bynum, Ben Gordon, and Tayshaun Prince to step up and tell their men to play, the Pistons could be one dangerous squad.