It was just last season that the Detroit Pistons had a 28-game losing streak. That is the longest in NBA history during a single season. Despite their ineptitude, Detroit had just one less win than the Washington Wizards.

The Dallas Mavericks head to Little Caesars Arena to face the Detroit Pistons in a non-conference matchup. The Mavs are 25-22, which puts the team in ninth place in the Western Conference. The Pistons are 23-23, which puts the team in eighth place in the Eastern Conference.

Nothing much of note happened to the Washington Wizards last night, which is to say the same thing that usually happens to them happened again. They lost their 14th game in succession, a routine 130-108 loss to the truncated Dallas Mavericks,

Detroit Pistons head coach J.B. Bickerstaff, left, watches Pistons guard Cade Cunningham (2) steal the ball from Washington Wizards guard Bilal Coulibaly, right, during the second half of an NBA ...

On Wednesday, the Pistons were flattened by their division rivals by a score of 133-119 in a game that saw Pistons center Isaiah Stewart throw a hard forearm into Pacers big man Thomas Bryant's chest. The attack toppled Bryant to the court and raised questions about what might have led up to it during Wednesday night's game.

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While the Mavericks began a five-game road trip on a winning note by beating the Pelicans on Wednesday, Dallas remains severely beat up. Will Dallas earn another road win on Friday in Detroit? Or is the home team the best bet in tonight’s Mavericks vs. Pistons matchup at 7:00 p.m. ET?

Three needs Detroit Pistons could address before NBA deadline Feb. 6, and a potential option for each need that wouldn't require significant assets.

The Phoenix Suns head to Little Caesars Arena to face the Detroit Pistons in a non-conference matchup ... and are coming off a win over the Washington Wizards. The Pistons have won three of their last five games, but are coming off a loss to the Indiana ...

The Hawks have a bottom-10 offense, having seen the league’s third-biggest drop in points scored per 100 possessions. Their February schedule offers them just one game (the fewest in the league) against a team — Washington — that currently ranks in the bottom 10 defensively.

The reigning rookie of the year is an NBA All-Star for the first time, with the 21-year-old from France one of the 14 players announced Thursday night as members of the reserve pool for the midseason exhibition that will take place Feb. 16 at the home of the Golden State Warriors in San Francisco.

Be so good at playing basketball that you make an NBA roster and then enjoy all the benefits that go with it: Money, fame, the home crowd cheering for you, flights on charted jets, a night in a