Detroit, MI
Pistons vs. Magic GameThread: Game Time, TV, Odds, and More
Nothing helps your personal PR like winning. It’s certainly helped Paolo Banchero, who is leading a much-improved Orlando Magic team that is firmly in the playoff picture. Conversely, the lack of winning has very much hurt the Q rating of Cade Cunningham, Orlando’s opponent tonight. Unlike his fellow No. 1 pick in Banchero, Cunningham is either tagged with a label as a bust, a disappointment, or irrelevant because if he was really so good his team would be winning. Paolo, meanwhile, has performed admirably and not spectacularly as a No. 1 pick, but he is sitting pretty and firmly in the discussion as one of the best young players in the game. It’s understandable if not altogether fair. Cade deserves better than this, man.
Grousing aside, the good news for the Detroit Pistons. Quentin Grimes, who the Pistons obtained in the Alec Burks and Bojan Bogdanovic swap with the New York Knicks, is set to make his Detroit debut. Grimes has been out with a knee issue, and head coach Monty Williams says he will not play a full allotment of minutes. Still, I don’t think it will take long for Pistons fans to see how needed a perimeter defender like Grimes will be for this Pistons team.
Game Vitals
When: 8 p.m. ET
Where: Little Caesars Arena, Detroit, Michigan
Watch: Bally Sports Detroit
Odds: Pistons +8
Projected Lineups
Detroit Pistons (8-47)
Cade Cunningham, Jaden Ivey, Simone Fontecchio, Ausar Thompson, Jalen Duren
Orlando Magic (31-25)
Jalen Suggs, Gary Harris, Franz Wagner, Paolo Banchero, Wendell Carter Jr.
Question of the Game
How many minutes into the game until the Detroit Pistons are playing their 10th player of the night?
Detroit, MI
Teen on moped hit by car after cruising through stop sign in Detroit
Photos by FOX 2 Photog Scott Federspiel
DETROIT (FOX 2) – A 16-year-old moped driver was hospitalized after a crash on Detroit’s west side on Wednesday night.
The backstory:
Detroit police say the teen disregarded a stop sign while going east on Vassar when he collided with a vehicle turning south on Outer Drive at about 9:30 p.m.
Photos by FOX 2 Photog Scott Federspiel
The boy was taken to a nearby hospital where he is listed in critical condition. The driver of the car, a woman in her 30s, was not injured.
The Source: Information for this report is from Detroit police.
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Chickens, geese found at vacant home after nonprofit reports them stolen
Chickens and geese that went missing from a local nonprofit’s Detroit site were found in the backyard of a nearby home, the director of operations said Wednesday.
The Full Circle Foundation, a Grosse Point Park-based nonprofit, said more than a dozen chickens and geese were believed stolen from a chicken coop on Detroit’s east side that also features the Full Circle Edible Garden.
The nonprofit provides training and job opportunities for young people with special needs.
Neighbors who learned from news reports about the missing flock found the “chickens were being held in the backyard of a vacant home not far from the Full Circle Edible Garden,” said Stephanie DiVirgil, director of operations. She said Ribbon Farm 4-H owns the flock.
“The homeowner was contacted, and she reached out to Full Circle to confirm,” said DiVirgil. “We were able to retrieve all of the chickens and geese that were found on the property, 19 in total.”
The foundation and Ribbon Farms 4-H are working to secure the site, including cameras, fencing and lights.
“We will likely start a fundraising campaign to have these items installed,” DiVirgil said. “We’ve gotten amazing support from the community, including offers to help pay for these additional security measures.”
Detroit, MI
DPD investigating after human remains found in home on Detroit’s west side
DETROIT (WXYZ) — Human remains were found in a furnace of an home on Detroit’s west side, the Detroit Police Department tells us.
The remains was found by an individual working on the home in the 5200 block of S Clarendon just after 11 a.m.
Anyone with information can call 313-596-2260 or CrimeStoppers at 1-800-SpeakUp.
Stay with WXYZ.com for updates on this developing story.
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