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Detroit Pistons Decide on Isaiah Stewart’s Playing Status vs Kings
While the Detroit Pistons have had a healthy starting five in place lately, a key member of their bench unit has been dealing with a notable injury concern.
When the Pistons faced the Miami Heat last week, the veteran center Isaiah Stewart was injured just seven minutes into his shift off the bench. He left the court with four points and three rebounds.
After getting evaluated back in the locker room, Stewart did not get clearance to return to help the Pistons close out the matchup against the Heat.
Since then, Stewart has been out. Will the trend continue on Thursday night against the Sacramento Kings?
Unfortunately, for Detroit, that will be the case. Stewart has been downgraded to out for Thursday’s game.
Isaiah Stewart (knee) listed out Thursday.
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After going out against Miami, Stewart was not part of the action when the Pistons hosted the Utah Jazz the following game. On a positive note, Pistons head coach JB Bickerstaff mentioned that Stewart’s recovery would not require a long timeline. He was viewed as day-to-day.
When the Pistons traveled to take on the Phoenix Suns, Stewart hit the road with the team. He was seen putting in work following a shootaround session. Although Stewart didn’t play, the Pistons found success against the Suns with an eight-point win.
Nothing changed earlier this week when the Pistons paid a visit to the Los Angeles Lakers. Stewart was ruled out, but the Pistons did well enough to win without him. After getting a couple of days off following the win over the Lakers, Stewart was upgraded on the injury report to questionable.
While it’s a positive sign he seems to be making progress, Stewart is still not ready to return.
The Pistons and the Kings are set to tip at 10 PM ET.
Detroit Red Wings missed the playoffs for the 10th consecutive season after 5-3 loss to New Jersey.
Red Wings missed the playoffs for the 10th consecutive season after 5-3 loss to New Jersey.
Detroit — The boos were loud and stinging and showed how frustrated Red Wings fans are.
They rained down after the Wings’ 5-3 loss to New Jersey, officially eliminating the Wings from the Stanley Cup playoffs, and during the final minutes as the Wings struggled to generate a goal and at least earn a point for the standings.
They didn’t score. They lost. And fans let them hear about it.
The Wings now own the longest streak of not making the playoffs in the NHL, at 10 consecutive seasons. Without a doubt, fans aren’t happy about it.
Coach and players understood the booing, accepted it as the fans simply not being happy with the same outcome now, season after season.
“This is Detroit, this is Hockeytown,” said coach Todd McLellan, who was an assistant coach on the Wings’ last Stanley Cup winning team in 2008. “I’ve been lucky enough to be on the other side of it, when they couldn’t stop cheering for this team. They’re dying for that. They crave that.
“That’s what they want, and I don’t even know if they want a Stanley Cup championship anymore. They just want a team that will come and give them something to cheer about.”
Players in the last few weeks referenced the “outside noise” from fans, alluding to the pressure or negativism from fans, and they have been attempting to keep it outside of the locker room.
The fans, said McLellan, have the right to express their opinions after 25 consecutive years of making the playoffs with four Stanley Cups during that timeframe.
“This outside noise stuff or whatever, that’s inside noise, those are our fans in our building and they pay to watch us play, and we get paid well to perform for them,” McLellan said. “They’re fulling entitled to their opinion and we deserve that opinion.
“There’s no other way to sugarcoat it. That’s what we earned.”
Captain Dylan Larkin said it was “difficult” to hear the booing.
“Our fans are great, they are passionate and they care about winning,” Larkin said. “There’s been some great years here and they want us back to that. That’s what they expect here.”
Lucas Raymond said it “stinks” to end the season the way the Wings did, and have fans boo at Little Caesars Arena.
“We had a clear goal coming into this year and we didn’t do it,” Raymond said. “We had plenty of opportunities throughout this season and especially down the stretch.”
McLellan feels the Wings need to do a better job of facing and conquering the pressure and challenge of meaningful games late in the season.
“I felt a little bit of that last year, I’ve lived a year of it now and it’s there,” said McLellan of the external pressure. “But we keep earning that. We earned that pressure and that outside (“noise”) but you can except the pressure as challenge or you can succumb to it and we seem to choose the second one (succumb to it).
“That’s the way it is and the only way you get out of it is, you work your way out of it.”
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