Rod Beard
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Sports Editor, The Detroit News. Former Pistons and U-M beat writer. Husband and father of 3. Purveyor of #StartWriting . ΑΦΑ
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Alicia Jeffreys survived a rare form of cancer with 7 surgeries and 116 radiation treatments. The mother 2 sets of twins became one of the highest-ranking women in the
#Pistons
organization.
Read her Mother's Day story of faith, strength and resilience:
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Breaking:
#Pistons
' Blake Griffin plans to donate $100,000 for workers at Little Caesars Arena:
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Serena Williams could lose in the first round of every major she plays for the rest of her career, and she'd still be the greatest tennis player -- male or female -- ever.
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Some news: After seven years on the
#Pistons
beat, I've accepted a promotion to become an Assistant Sports Editor at The Detroit News.
I'm excited for this new challenge and grateful for my followers and
#PistonsTwitter
.
I'll finish the season, but then it's
#StartEditing
.
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#PIstons
GM Troy Weaver on drafting on fit for the prospects: "They all fit. We won 20 games ... they all fit."
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#Pistons
Jaden Ivey: "I wanted to go to Detroit ... I didn't know where I was going to Detroit, and when my agent told me I was going to Detroit, I just broke down in tears."
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Soooo...this happened today.
Pretty classy move by
#Pistons
GM Troy Weaver, congratulating and complimenting
@detnewsRodBeard
on his work covering the team.
Rod is getting promoted at the Detroit News after working on the beat.
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I'm excited to announce that I'm starting a new role as Sports Editor at The Detroit News. It's been a long journey -- which technically started as a paperboy for The News in the early 1980s.
I'm truly blessed to get this opportunity and for those who have helped me get here.
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#Pistons
All-Star Blake Griffin is planning to donate $100,000 to help the workers at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit.
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The
#Pistons
are signing forward Tyler Cook to a standard contract for the remainder of the season with an option for next season, according to a league source.
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The
#Celtics
are interested in trading for
#Pistons
Jerami Grant?
Well, in my twenties, I was interested in Halle Berry. I'll just leave it at that.
#AintHappening
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#Pistons
Cade Cunningham on handling trash talk: "It depends on what they're saying. I'll talk too. Nothing that I heard tonight held any weight -- it was all for the cameras."
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#Pistons
Isiah Thomas sets the record straight on people walking off the court: Bird walked off and nobody said anything.
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New Dunk Contest rule:
No other people involved.
No jumping over people.
No passes from others.
It's you, the ball and the rim.
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#Pistons
Dwane Casey on Cade Cunningham: "He's rookie of the year. It's not even close, in terms of talent evaluation."
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#Pistons
Cade Cunningham: "If it wasnt Detroit, I would have just kept the Buffs in my pocket."
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The Detroit News is seeking a sports reporter to cover the Detroit Pistons, a young team that appears to be on the rise in the NBA behind one of the game’s young stars in Cade Cunningham. We’re not looking for a reporter just to cover games and tell readers who won and who lost..
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Good morning.
The
#Pistons
' starting backcourt will be Cade Cunningham and Jaden Ivey.
That is all.
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#Pistons
Dennis Smith Jr.: "My first night in Detroit, me and my girl stayed up and watched the 'Bad Boys' documentary. It was like my 10th time seeing it."
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"When you come to Detroit, you gon get your ass whooped."
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#Pistons
Cade Cunningham on his second technical foul: "I had my people right behind the bench."
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#Pistons
rookie Saddiq Bey has ben named the Eastern Conference player of the week.
Well deserved.
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Cade gets up, goes around the back of the bench and takes a picture with the kid and says to the mom, "Thank you for buying him the jersey."
I mean, who does that? Cade is different.
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#Pistons
Troy Weaver, on adding some veterans in free agency, jokes: "A 23-year-old would be a veteran on this team."
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Found some (less grainy) ocular proof of the
#Pistons
Derrick Rose pregame dunk I mentioned earlier, courtesy of
@FOXSportsDet
.
Don't say I've never done anything for youse.
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@CourtneyFallon_
@JamesDKoh
@Lakers
Fox's daughter or Kobe's daughter? That's an important distinction right now.
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I don't want to hear NOT ONE of y'all complain. You got Cade Cunningham last year. Live in that reality for another year, and take whoever is the best player at 5.
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The world is a very weird place.
Went to the vending maching at halftime and came back to the floor.
Jerry West walks up and starts a conversation: "What you got there?"
Me" Pork rinds."
I had a conversation with Jerry West about pork rinds.
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#Pistons
Cade Cunningham says he's in "basketball heaven" this weekend: "I'm not starstruck anymore ... I kind of look at myself as one of those guys now."
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#Pistons
Cade Cunningham on backcourt with Jaden Ivey: "I mean, he's fast -- I'm not fast. Having somebody like that with me spreads the floor out a lot. It can help us push the pace. I like to kick ahead to push the pace and he can literally sprint ahead. It's gonna be fun."
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#Pistons
Cade Cunningham, on ESPN, says he likes the "MotorCade" nickname, but he also is into "Cade Icewood" too.
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Cade Cunningham on the city of Detroit: "I love Detroit. I've already been listening to Detroit music -- way before the lottery ... it's a city that has a lot going on and getting the sports team rolling will be huge for the city."
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#Pistons
Cade Cunningham has been named the Eastern Conference Rookie of the Month for January.
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#Pistons
Dwane Casey said in their interviews with draft prospects is whether they make their beds in the morning. He said it can indicate whether they set the tone for their day and how organized they are.
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Derrick Rose is just a genuine dude. He cares about his teammates as much as he cares about himself.
This is just one example.
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#Pistons
Blake Griffin on moving up in the standings 🔥🔥🔥: "What have we done? We’ve had a good stretch and a lot of teams have had good stretches. Being in the 6th or 7th seed is absolutely nothing to be proud of. We tricked off two months of basketball."
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#Pistons
SVG on paying college players and the recent uproar: "The NCAA is one of the worst organizations – maybe the worst organization – in sports. They certainly don’t care about the athletes."
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#Pistons
Derrick Rose on mentoring Killian Hayes: "I told him he was the future of the team...there's no competing. My job is to push him and groom him into a great player."
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If the
#Pistons
had only won one title in between Bird, Magic and Jordan, people might be able to dismiss it as an anomaly.
#Pistons
won two titles though -- and beat all three of them.
#TheLastDance
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#Pistons
staff is wearing teal polo shirts today. Could be something; could be nothing. I'll let Twitter decide.
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#Pistons
GM Troy Weaver on his aggressiveness: "I don't put my toe in the water, I ride in the front of the roller coaster with my hands up ... my clip is always empty."
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Please pray for Matt Shepard and his family. He's been a rock in the Detroit sports landscape for years. He's a man of faith, but prayers are always helpful.
For those who missed it, George Blaha just said that Matt Shepard's wife and son were involved in a very serious car accident. Shep's son has been released from the hospital.
@ShepMatt
wife is still in the hospital.
#PrayForShep
#ShepStrong
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Tell the people who matter in your life that you love them. Every day.
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#Pistons
announce that Ben Wallace will join the organization as a basketball operations and team engagement advisor.
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#Pistons
Christian Wood is announced last in pregame intros. Dude went from being the last man to make the roster to the last man introduced. What a time to be alive.
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#Pistons
Killian Hayes: "I was just praying that I'd end up in Detroit, so I'm really happy to be here."
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I remember when some of youse were saying that
#Pistons
Cade Cunningham was a bust.
You were wrong. Dude is just different.
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#Pistons
Isaiah Stewart: "Sh*#. That's what I think when I see (Jalen) Duren. He's just a massive guy; on top of that, he's only 18 years old. He reminds me of a bigger version of myself when I was 18, being destructive, blocking everything, and being very physical. He's good."
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Some
#Pistons
fans are weird. Y'all spent all season hoping for Cade Cunningham, and now that you have the pick, some of you are delving into ways to trade it.
It's wild out here.
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Breaking story:
#Lions
cancel practice in protest of Jacob Blake shooting in Kenosha, Wisc.:
Photo: Tori Petry
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Brandon Ingram wins NBA Most Improved Player.
#Pistons
Christian Wood finishes 8th, with one first-place vote ... from me
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Cade Cunningham on playing against Saddiq Bey and Isaiah Stewart in the final: "We had been talking trash for two weeks. To meet up with them in the championship game was how it was supposed to play out, and now I'm going to flex on them with the win."
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coach Dwane Casey 🔥🔥🔥 on the fans' boos in first half and cheers at the end: "I heard them booing...we deserved it with the way we played. But don't break your ankles getting back on the bandwagon."
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Celebrating 19 years of marriage with this beauty today.
For the record, I'm the lucky one.
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I could be wrong on this, but I have a feeling the
#Pistons
will end up with the No. 2 pick in the NBA Draft Lottery tonight.
I said last year on lottery night that they'd be in the top 2, and that came true ... same vibes today.
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If there's one thing that my frequent travel has taught me, it's that Detroit's Metro Airport is one of the best in the country.
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Dwane Casey on Marvin Bagley III: "Do I ease him in? No. He's going into the fire."
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I don't know how the final
#Pistons
roster is going to shake out, but it's going to be hard to keep Luka Garza off of it.
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Cade Cunningham on his impressions of the city of Detroit
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#Pistons
rookie Isaiah Stewart said last night he watched a documentary on the DET 03-04 team.
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The
#Pistons
and Blake Griffin have mutually decided that he will be out of the lineup until they figure out his future.
Griffin: “I am grateful to the Pistons for understanding what I want to accomplish in my career and for working together on the best path forward.”
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For sports beat writers, try this:
When you stay in hotels, collect the extra toiletries and toss them in your suitcase. When you get home, put them in a box and when you have a good amount, drop it off at a homeless shelter or give them to the less fortunate.
#StartHelping
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This guy might just make the team...and he has the jersey number to prove it.
@NicolasHenkel
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Over the next couple of weeks, the Bad Boys
#Pistons
are going to have the equivalent of a lopsided trial as to their legacy.
Don't forget that they beat the
#Bulls
in the playoffs from 88-90 before MJ's squad finally prevailed.
#TheLastDance
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#Pistons
Cade Cunningham has scored 20+ points for the fifth straight game.
No other NBA rookie this season has more than two such games.
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Saddiq Bey said he'll probably give the game ball to his mom, who texted him this morning to tell him to be more aggressive.
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So Aaron Gordon is never doing the dunk contest again ... and they want to bring the best dunkers to participate.
The elite dunkers aren't going to want to be part of judging like that.
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Quick
#Pistons
Cade Cunningham story. He was sitting on the bench in pregame and a mom and her kid, who was wearing a Cade jersey, approached from behind the bench to ask him something.
Arena security freaks out and pushes them back.
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LaMelo Ball has been working out in Detroit since March...and getting stronger. He looks much bigger and muscular than his highlight videos.
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The
#Pistons
have four Black beat writers, which has to be a rarity for any city in any sport.
I appreciate y'all:
@JLEdwardsIII
@omarisankofa
@WilliamsLaurenL
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When I was younger, I touched base with Halle Berry about spending some time together ...
The Knicks have touched base with the Pistons about trading up to
#5
in the NBA Draft (via
@IanBegley
)
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Cade Cunningham begins to roll out several names of Detroit rappers.
Just pick this dude.
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The stars of the 2013
#Michigan
basketball team had some eye-popping stats in NBA openers:
Tim Hardaway Jr: 31 pts, 6 reb, 5 assts
Caris LeVert: 27 pts, 4 rebs, 4 assts
Nik Stauskas: 24 pts (5 3FG) in 27 mins
Trey Burke: 15 pts, 4 assts
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Here are the
#Pistons
City Edition jerseys for this season.
Don't mind the red, but burgundy was ... so close.
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#Pistons
Andre Drummond is making the pitch to bring back the teal joints, all by his lonesome.
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#Pistons
are looking for a general manager -- and, of course, Chauncey Billups is trending.
Pistons fans are doing their thing.
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