Cade Cunningham recently appeared on the Jimmy Fallon Show to talk about the rise of the Detroit Pistons last season, and the one-time NBA All-Star credited the front office for the huge turnaround.
“We’re on the way up,” Cunningham said confidently. “I think the start of that has to be Trajan Langdon and J.B. Bickerstaff first and foremost. They came in and brought a structure to us, and just another hunger that helped us.”
“We had a horrible year before they got here, so everybody, we all had a chip on our shoulder. Then we bring in two guys like that who also have a chip on their shoulder,” he added.
After finishing at the bottom of the Eastern Conference with a 14-68 record in 2023-24, the Detroit Pistons took the sixth seed with a 44-38 record in 2024-25, clinching their first playoff berth since 2019. They put up a valiant fight against the New York Knicks, pushing them to six games in the opening round.
Former Detroit Pistons guard wants to return to the team next season, per insider
Malik Beasley reportedly wants to return to the Detroit Pistons after a productive 2024-25 campaign, where he finished as one of the top candidates for the league’s Sixth Man of the Year award.
“I do know that Malik, if there’s a pathway, would like to look at being considered to play for Detroit again next season,” his lawyer Steve Haney said via Sam Amico of Hoops Wire.
The Detroit Pistons were supposed to offer Beasley a three-year, $42 million contract this summer, but everything changed once reports surfaced that Beasley was under federal investigation related to gambling.
