
J.B. Bickerstaff-led Pistons shaping up to be a not-so-easy first-round opponent for Knicks
NY Post
DETROIT — For J.B. Bickerstaff, identities have shifted.
Maybe reversed.
Two years ago, he guided a youthful Cleveland team that was out-worked, out-rebounded, punked in the paint and ultimately eliminated by the Knicks in the first round.
Bickerstaff’s new squad, the Pistons, also is young and inexperienced but installed physicality at the top of its culture tenets.

Cade Cunningham, almost inarguably the best player in the East this season, is likely out for the remainder of the regular season. That’s the word out of Detroit following the depressing news that Cunningham punctured a lung when he took a knee to his side Tuesday from Washington’s Tre Johnson while chasing a loose ball.

Wednesday was another positive day at Yankees camp. For the first time since March 6, 2025 — an outing in which he knew “something wasn’t right,” which began a weeks-long saga that ended on the operating table for Tommy John surgery — Gerrit Cole was back on a mound and facing hitters in game action.











