Hooped Up

The Pistons are getting long in the tooth and are looking to retool, and in the east one or two moves can make the difference. 

Flip Saunders was removed as head coach in Detroit on Tuesday, but Joe Dumars claims that he will not be made a scapegoat, and that the players will be held responsible for the team’s failure in the Eastern Conference finals again, Larry Lage of the Associated Press writes.

“There are no sacred cows here,” Dumars said. “You lose that sacred-cow status when you lose three straight years.”

Chicago Tribune