Suns flagship radio station host Gambo who typically has very good sources within the Suns is reporting that Terry Porter was interviewed yesterday in Detroit and that he's the leading candidate. Here's a look at his coaching resume : On...

Dan Wetzel wrote an article after the Pistons dispatched the Orlando Magic in the Eastern Conference semi-finals that a lot of people might have missed. The article compares Joe Dumars to Red Auerbach and goes through the moves that Dumars...

A Daily Babble Production Hours after the Pistons had put the finishing touches on their conference semis match-up with the Orlando Magic this past Tuesday night, Columbia Missourian reporter Bill Powell had a question: Do you think the Pistons end...

The Detroit Pistons beat the Orlando Magic 91-86 on Tuesday to win that series four games to one and thus advance to the Eastern Conference Finals for the sixth straight season. The Showtime Lakers from the 1980s are the most recent team to make it to...

The AP reports: Detroit set an NBA playoff record with just three turnovers and made just enough shots and stops to advance to their sixth straight Eastern Conference final with a 91-86 win Tuesday night over the Orlando Magic in Game 5 of the...

Enough said. I’m at the game for FanHouse — leave your thoughts in the comments.

Now that the Pistons are on their way to the Eastern Conference Finals Bennie and Jeff talk about Tayshaun Prince's performance in the playoffs as well as posing the question "Boston or Cleveland?" Don't forget you can e-mail Bennie and Jeff at...

Gibson left the game in the 4th quarter of game five against the Boston Celtics. May 15, ESPN: Cavaliers guard Daniel Gibson has a separated left shoulder and will miss Cleveland's Game 6 against the Boston Celtics... The team said...

By TADOne or… Tim Darga! (Sam here. Is there anything better than “unmasking” a commenter so you can see their real name? He asked for it, so I present to you Tim Darga, whom you know as TADOne. These are his game notes he sent me...

                       There was some of the good and bad in Tuesday’s game between the Orlando Magic and Detroit Pistons.  First the good: Detroit committed only 3 turnovers (a NBA playoff record).  Now the bad: Orlando

Six straight trips to the Eastern Conference finals after beating a kind of tough Orlando team in 5 without a heart and soul player. Not too shabby. To this point, things are working out about how I expected, with Detroit having a relatively easy ride...

The Pistons have the chance to end their second round matchup tonight at home against Orlando. Up 3-1 Detroit would love to wrap this one up tonight and wait on the winner of the Celtics - Cavs series for their sixth consecutive trip to The Eastern...

The Magic find themselves in the unenviable position of being down 3 games to 1 to the Pistons heading into Game 5 tonight at Detroit. It will be a gametime decision as to whether Chauncey Billups will play or not, as his strained hamstring continues...

I know that I have complained about officiating on several occasions this post season, but only one time did it affect the outcome of the game, and that was Game 2 of the Magic-Pistons series, when a blown call on a stalled clock, along with multiple...

Congrats to the “Long Arm of the Law” for making the 2008 NBA’s All-Defensive 2nd team. Great recognition for a guy who usually goes overlooked, except for the defensive 2nd team ( this is the 4th consecutive season that Tay has...

Filed under: Pistons , Magic , Eastern , NBA Playoffs , Detroit Notes from a trip to the NBA Playoffs . Immediately after Saturday's heartbreaking 90-89 loss to the Pistons, Jameer Nelson boldly predicted that the Magic would extend the series...

A. Sherrod Blakely points out that Rip Hamilton is on the verge of an impressive milestone: Richard Hamilton is on the verge of becoming the franchise’s all-time leading scorer in the playoffs. Making the record all that more improbable is...

Detroit set a NBA playoff record Tuesday night in their 91-86 victory against Orlando by committing just three turnovers in the game, none of which came in a tight second half. Down to the wire it went again as the Pistons, minus Chauncey Billups,...

Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images [ Box score ] The Pistons will be playing in their sixth consecutive Eastern Conference Finals (opponent TBD) after dispatching the Orlando Magic in five games. The Pistons conference finals streak is the...

Tayshaun keeps saving the day! Tayshaun Prince's block on Hedo Turkoglu . Courtesy of The Detroit Pistons, The NBA and TNT

The NBA Closer is written by Matt McHale, who's really starting to hate Gregg Popovich. When he's not nodding off due to Pop's slow-it-the-hell-down style of coaching, he can be found making raspberries at Basketbawful . Enjoy! What's blue,...

Despite a barrage of turnovers and missed free throws, the Magic found themselves up 70-65 early in the fourth quarter on the Pistons, just a little more than 11 minutes away from sending the series back to Orlando for Game 6. The Magic then proceeded...

The common theme seems to be 'believe' with the Magic players. It(Believe!) was a theme for the Orlando Magic a couple seasons ago. It's also the name of a Shamu show at Sea World-Orlando. I'm not sure if Shamu took...

The NBA revealed it’s All-Rookie teams today, and Rodney Stuckey earned a spot on the second team, though he did receive five first-place votes. All in all, being included among the league’s top 10 rookies is a pretty nice accomplishment...

Another one of the ‘Stonz picks up an accolade. Rodney Stuckey made the NBA’s All-Rookie Second team. Pretty good for only getting into 57 games. Rodney is joined on the 2nd team by: Jamario Moon (Toronto), Juan Carlos Navarro...

DBB reader Q-Dog emailed me a little bit ago to inform me that Joe Dumars was a guest on Chad Ford’s NBA Dish podcast on ESPN today: I just finished listening to ESPN’s “NBA Dish” podcast. Joe Dumars was the featured guest and Chad Ford ask

Joe Dumars was a guest on NBA Dish with Chad Ford's this afternoon. May 13, ESPN: After watching Billups participate in Tuesday morning's shootaround, Pistons general manager Joe Dumars said he thought the guard, who has a strained hamstring, would...