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Detroit Pistons vs. San Antonio Spurs: What time, TV channel is today’s game on?
It’s the day every Detroit Pistons fan has dreamed of since May 16, 2023: 7-foot-4 uber-rookie Victor Wembanyama will finally suit up for action at Little Caesars Arena
Of course, he’ll be doing it as a member of the Spurs, who won the draft lottery that day, and not the Pistons, who fell all the way to No. 5. Wembanyama has been as good as advertised — he’s averaging 19.3 points, 10.1 rebounds and 3.3 blocks per game, despite shooting just 44.9% from the floor and 29.5% on 3s (of which he averages five a game) — but the Spurs have been almost as bad as the Pistons.
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Their longest losing streak is “just” 18 games, and they won two games in October, one in November, two in December and, like the Pistons, are winless in January, for a 5-30 record. The Pistons, by the way, are on pace for 6.6 wins, well below the NBA’s 82-game record set by the 1972-73 Philadelphia 76ers. The Pistons, oh-by-the-way, are one loss shy of the NBA’s worst-ever record through 37 games; only the 1993-94 Dallas Mavericks and 1997-98 Denver Nuggets had a worse start, going 2-35. Both the Mavs and Nugs lost Game 39 that season, too, so that should take some of the pressure off the Pistons — they can lose and still not set another NBA record for putridity. (The 41-game mark — aka, the halfway point — is held by those Mavs, who opened 2-39.)
The Pistons looked to be turning it around, at least for one game, Tuesday night against the Kings when Bojan Bogdanovic and others shot them to a 47-29 lead entering the second quarter. They were outscored 101-63 the rest of the way.
After tonight’s matchup, the Pistons have one more home loss, er, we mean game, as they host the Houston Rockets — and rookie Ausar Thompson’s twin brother Amen —on Friday before hitting Washington for a Monday matinee against the Wizards. The Spurs, meanwhile, head home to host the Hornets on Friday night.
Here’s what you need to know about this Pistons vs. Spurs game, TV and streaming info, the injury report and projected starting lineups.
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Detroit Pistons vs. San Antonio Spurs start time today
Matchup: Pistons (3-34) vs. Spurs (5-30).
Date: Wednesday, Jan. 10.
Time: 7 p.m. ET.
Where: Little Caesars Arena in Detroit.
Betting line: TBA (how to bet and get sign up bonuses).
• Box score
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Detroit Pistons vs. San Antonio SpursTV channel today
TV: Bally Sports Detroit.
Radio: WXYT-FM (97.1) (Pistons radio affiliates).
Streaming: Fubo (free trial).
If you do not have Bally Sports Detroit, you can sign up for Fubo with a free trial to watch the Pistons all season long.
Detroit Pistons injury report vs. San Antonio Spurs
The Pistons are down starting power forward Isaiah Stewart (right big toe sprain) for up to two weeks. Cade Cunningham is out for at least another three games with a knee strain. Point guard Monte Morris (right quad strain) has yet to debut and is out into January.
Guard Cidy Sissoko, who has 6 points in his 5 games this season combined, has been ruled out for tonight’s game with a bad ankle. Guard Jeremy Sochan, who’s averaging 10.8 points and 5.5 rebounds, was listed as day to day with a bad quad earlier this week.
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Pistons vs. Spurs projected starting lineups
Pistons: G Jaden Ivey, G Killian Hayes, F Bojan Bogdanovic, F Isaiah Livers, C Jalen Duren.
Raptors: FG Tre Jones, G Devin Vassell, F Julian Champagnie, F Jeremy Sochan, C Victor Wembanyama
Lineups subject to change.
Pistons uniform, jersey vs. Spurs
The Pistons will be in their classic white Association Edition uniforms bombing Tuesday night in their blues.
The Spurs are donning their black Icon Edition kits with “SP RS” in white, split by a, well, spur serving as the “U.” You know the look.
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Detroit Tigers blow lead, lose to Kansas City Royals on walk-off hit.
The Tigers lost, 4-3, to the Royals on Kyle Isbel’s walk-off single in the ninth inning.
Kansas City, Mo. — The losing streak is now five games. The road record is now an MLB-worst 6-16.
The Kansas City Royals prolonged the Tigers’ misery Saturday night with a relatively breezy 5-1 win at Kauffman Stadium.
Oh, and the Tigers might’ve lost another player in the process.
Right fielder Kerry Carpenter left the game in the third inning. He banged his left shoulder running into the side wall chasing Bobby Witt Jr.’s first-inning, two-run, inside-the-park home run.
Witt, a right-handed hitter, sliced a drive inside the bag at first. Carpenter chased it toward the side wall, but the ball caromed past him. Witt never stopped running.
Carpenter stayed in the game and even rolled an infield single in the second inning. But he was replaced by Wenceel Perez when the Royals came to bat in the third inning.
BOX SCORE: Royals 5, Tigers 1
He was being evaluated during the game.
The two-run homer by Witt ended up being more than the Tigers’ sputtering offense could overcome. But, for good measure, Michael Massey added a three-run home run off Ty Madden in the fourth inning.
Madden ended up being one of the few bright spots in the game for the Tigers. He pitched six innings and allowed just one other hit. He set down the last 11 hitters he faced.
He entered in the third inning after opener Burch Smith and lefty Tyler Holton worked one time through the Royals’ batting order.
Holton made a nifty escape in the first inning. With runners at second and third and one out, and two runs already in, Jac Caglianone hit a hard ground ball to second baseman Zach McKinstry, who was playing in on the grass.
McKinstry got the out at first. The runner at second, Carter Jensen, mistakenly broke for third where Vinnie Pasquantino was holding.
Spencer Torkelson threw to shortstop Kevin McGonigle who threw to catcher Jake Rogers once Pasquantino broke for home — your basic 4-3-6-2 double-play.
Not much else went the Tigers’ way.
Royals right-hander Michael Wacha snuffed out the few scoring opportunities the Tigers mustered.
He worked around an error and a McKinstry stolen base in the third innings. He got Jake Rogers to pop to shallow right field with runners at first and third and one out and then got Matt Vierling to ground out with the bases loaded in the fifth.
Wacha allowed two hits in seven innings. The Tigers put 18 balls in play against him with a soft average exit velocity of 84.4 mph.
The Tigers broke through in the eighth against lefty reliever Matt Strahm. And it was left-handed hitters who did the dirty work. Riley Greene, who extended his career-high on-base streak to 20 games, doubled home McGonigle.
This season is a long way from over but Tigers, 18-22, are in serious need a course correction.
Chris.McCosky@detroitnews.com
@cmccosky
4Warn Weather – SATURDAY: Mostly cloudy skies. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. A few storms could be strong with gusty winds and hail. High: 71.
SATURDAY NIGHT: Mostly cloudy skies, becoming partly cloudy skies late. Low: 45.
SUNDAY (MOTHER’S DAY): Mix of sunshine and clouds, cooler temperatures. High: 61.
SUNDAY NIGHT: Partly cloudy skies. Another chilly night. Low: 41.
MONDAY: Mostly sunny skies, remaining chilly. High: 58.
After a beautiful end to the week on Friday with sunshine and a little cloud cover, with warmer temperatures moving into the region as well, some of us are waking up to some patchy dense fog on Saturday morning. Some places south of M-59 are seeing reduced visibilities down to around a mile. If you do run into some patchy dense fog, be sure to use your low beams.
That warming trend continues into the start of the weekend on Saturday, but it also brings a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Another cold front will work through the region by Saturday afternoon and early Saturday evening and that will bring our thunderstorm chance. High temperature is warming into low 70s by Saturday afternoon.
The Storm Prediction Center has placed most of the region under a Marginal Risk (1 out of 5) on our severe weather scale for the start of the weekend. Gusty winds and hail are the primary threats as we work through the start of the weekend, but this will not be a widespread threat for severe thunderstorms.
Behind that cold front for the end of the weekend on Sunday, we will keep a mixture of sunshine and clouds into the forecast. High temperatures running about 10 to 15° cooler to end the weekend. Expect high to warm into the upper 50s to lower 60s by Sunday afternoon.
Drier weather sticks around for the start of next week, before another chance of rain moves into the region by the time we get to Tuesday. The cooler-than-average temperatures will continue into the start of next week as well. Expect high temperatures to remain in the 50s for Monday and Tuesday.
Temperature start to warm up by the middle of next week, and Drier weather moves back in by Wednesday behind another cold front moving into the region. Expect high temperatures into the lower 60s on Wednesday to warm into the upper 60s by the time we get to Thursday. Above average temperatures move back into the region as we look ahead into the end of the week, expect high temperatures back into the lower 70s by the time we get to Friday.
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