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.

Detroit Pistons owner Tom Gores submitted a bid for the city to receive a WNBA franchise, sources told Yahoo Sports. The Detroit Shock were a big part of early WNBA history, winning championships in 2003, 2006 and 2008 before moving to Tulsa in 2010 — and before being rebranded as the Dallas Wings.

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.

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 ...

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

"Multiple NBA executives believe the cost to include Vanderbilt in a trade is a first-round pick, meaning he's far more valuable to the Lakers as a usable player than he would be as part of a trade in which they would have to add assets and essentially be overpaying for whatever they got back."

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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,

The Phoenix Suns head to Little Caesars Arena to face the Detroit Pistons in a non-conference matchup. The Suns are 20-20, which puts them in 11th place in the Western Conference. The Pistons are 21-20, which puts them in eighth place in the Eastern Conference.

Bradley Beal could miss the Suns third game of their five-game road trip, as he's dealing with a left ankle sprain.

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The Suns are showing interest in Hawks sharpshooter Bogdan Bogdanovic as trade speculation surrounding Jusuf Nurkic grows.