Second-year Pistons forward Sekou Doumbouya had a stellar preseason turn in a 99-91 victory against the Knicks Sunday, reminding the Pistons faithful that the 19-year-old could be a key part of Detroit’s future, as Keith Langlois of Pistons.com details. Now just the third-youngest Pistons player, Doumbouya scored 23 points on 8-of-11 shooting, in addition to pulling down five rebounds and logging two dimes, in only 18 minutes.
“I came in and tried to help the team – that’s my job, to come off the bench, lock in and be ready to help the team,” Doumbouya said. He averaged 6.4 PPG and 3.1 RPG in 38 games for the Pistons during the 2019/20 season.
There’s more out of the Motor City:
- In a Bleacher Report Ask Me Anything conversation yesterday, the outspoken LaVar Ball was true to form, ripping the Pistons for recently waiving middle son LiAngelo Ball. The Pistons had signed LiAngelo to an Exhibit 10 training camp contract. “I love the fans, but the franchise over there is raggedy as hell,” the elder Ball said. “They don’t know a good player. I was giving them a [l]ottery pick for free!” LiAngelo went undrafted out of UCLA in 2018.
- Pistons rookie swingman Deividas Sirvydis has arrived in Detroit, per Rod Beard of the Detroit News (Twitter link). The 20-year-old will need to clear COVID-19 testing protocol, according to Pistons head coach Dwane Casey, and may be ready to join his teammates in a practice this Thursday or Friday.
- Two former All-Stars can supply valuable leadership for a young Pistons team in transition, according to Keith Langlois of Pistons.com. Savvy veterans Derrick Rose and Blake Griffin, who have logged significant playoff minutes, can help inform the Pistons’ future leaders and build the current culture. “They’re great pros, big-time pros,” Casey said. “We’re being sensible about our program and what we’re building. It’s not going to happen overnight – I know that and they know that. It’s not like they’re fighting for star status. They’ve been there.
lottery pick… lmaoooo What the hell is he talking about… lol
Yeah how dare a father speak highly of his son! What a world…so many damaged souls with no dads. Sad really
Everybody gets a championship trophy in the “Twinsfan333” household.
What a world… when someone with a loser’s mentality thinks he’s speaking from the “high ground.”
How dare a father speak as if he OWNS his son. He gave them his son? That’s all you need to know about this clown right there.
Speaking highly and humiliating the family name are two different things. I’ve always thought the Ball family was the b-ball offshoot of the Kardashian family. The Kardashian kids all have a skill that earns for the family. That and there is no carnival barker selling fake Rolexes from under a trench coat from the K-tribe.
I wonder how LiAngelo’s post-basketball career life will go. IMO I personally wouldn’t want to hire him knowing his dad might go off on me if I don’t treat his son as royalty.
I guess he can play for some years overseas or in the G league. After that, I can picture him helping LaVar run the “Ball empire”. The bottom line is he probably won’t need to find a regular job in his entire life.
LaVar may have two sons who will be set for life and may actually be good but his middle son is clearly not in the same category. Lottery Ticket? “He” gave them? No other team wanted him. No other team signed him in 2 years. No other team signed after he was waived. He ruined his son’s career by not allowing him to stay in school and develop. He is simply an unfinished product and may never be as good as his brothers. I think he better go play in Europe or in Israel because the D league isn’t going to help him take the next step. Too bad, he can’t go back to school and play because he really would have had a chance to develop. If he never plays in the NBA, his father is the reason.
LiAngelo probably wouldn’t have had a chance to play in the NBA even if he had stayed for four years at UCLA. He could have gotten a degree, though… but I don’t think he will need it in the future anyway.
Dude don’t need a useless college certificate. He can literally make Ms from social media.
At least they know their dad got their back…in this day and age that’s priceless folks. A lot of you wish you had best friends.
The whole idea of the “father of the year award” comments for a black man raising his sons like he is supposed to is just played to me. I am so tired of it. I know the world is low but really how low to have to give a man probs for something he is supposed to do?! And Lavar is not the example on high of black fathers raising their kids. I grew up in Detroit and although many had absentee father. Most of my friends had an active father or man in their lives trying to help positively.
Well said
Amen
VERY well said. Thumbs up from me.
Who is awarding him father of the year? All I said was it’s nice that he has his sons back. Not all fathers do, regardless of race. The fact that you brought race into it at all says way more about you than anything else, and furthers my point about people like you not having friends.
Lol!!! Ooh I don’t have friends boo hoo. What are you 12 dude? My point is a father having a sons because is not a cause for celebration IT IS A FATHERS DUTY regardless if they fulfull it or not!
*having a sons back
You are totally mixing things up to try and cover your tracks. Its things like this that make me weep for the future.
No one is singling him out with praise, in fact most people do the opposite. He is not getting special treatment for being a “good dad” nor because he is black. You invented both of these things . Neither exist in my original comment.
The idea that a dad having his sons back is worth celebrating, because it doesnt happen all the time, whether it should or not. In this specific case it is, so its nice. Positivity try it sometime.
It sounds like you have sone personal demons (who hurt u? Lol). And its posts like these are the reason I am top 3 commentor on this site. -dunker
Thumbs up for Lil’ Dunker… BOOM!!!
Every Dad has his kids back. It’s one of the easiest things a Dad can do. Every father I know is all about thier kid being the greatest. Especially in the sports world. What’s harder is setting a good example for your kids, which this arrogant man does not do (at least in public).
Lol! Thanks for the mental assesment. Wow you must be one hell of a pshchiatrist to assess a person’s life and demeanor through a comment section. Allow me to assess you a bit and say you come off soft and whiny. But hey you got a right to be. I think I explained my stance on the debate quite clearly. I will leave it at that.
And you clearly singled him out for praise! For the exact reason I am debating against. Seemed like you are trying to make him out to be a special father when I am arguing he is nothing more than a normal black father. And it was compiled on numerous comments from media and commentors I see in line with this sort of thing. So I disagree that he is not getting great praise when really he is just being a normal good dad. Lol! How do you not understand that? You are going with this nonsense sermon about the future and my personal demons. When I simply made a debatable arguement against your post. Hilarious!
Once again u bring up the fact that hes black. Why? He is a father. He has his sons back. That is a good thing. One might even say priceless (I said that). It boggles my mind that u find a way to disagree. And ppl say I’m the troll. I’m no troll. I’m the Dunker baby. And u r foul.
The nba is usually very critical of its younger players. Even with Jordan, there was no end of criticism. that he was a chucker. High volume scorer that didn’t make teammates better. Shaq took alot of crap that he was overrated and couldn’t finish games and could only dunk. Then Shaq stayed on kobe, as did most of the rest of the players at first.
And even today, Barkley is on every players case… somehow.
I say all that to say, in this environment, how in the hell does lamelo get a free pass, or his father? Why isn’t anyone consistently calling them out daily on their bs?
If Jordon hadn’t been around Charles Barkley EASILY would have been the face of basketball for that time frame…He was a top ,top player in NBA history as well.
NO other NBA team seems to be taking old man Ball up on his offer of a “free” lottery pick…….LOL……..god that’s refreshing to hear that IDIOTIC statement. That’s my smile for the day.
i think what lavar meant was if you have liangelo start all season, you’ll have a lottery pick next year.
Now THAT is funny