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Rodney Stuckey was at Pistons practice Tuesday, looking and feeling healthy, but did not participate.

Stuckey collapsed Friday in the third quarter of their game at Cleveland said numerous tests have been done on his heart, his blood, and everything has come back negative.

“I’m good, everything is good,” said Stuckey, who is questionable for Wednesday’s game against Utah. “They ran a lot of tests on me and everything came back good. I’m just taking it day by day.”

Stuckey doesn’t know when he’ll return to action as he awaits team doctors to make that decision.

H/N Detroit News

Pistons Rodney Stuckey collapsed during a time-out at 2:30 of the third quarter of the Pistons’ 99-92 loss to the Cavaliers, after complaining of dizziness.

After coming to the bench with Jonas Jerebko, Stuckey appeared fine after sitting, but then he summoned strength and conditioning coach Arnie Kander before he slumped into Kander’s arms and appeared to be having a seizure.

Medical personnel attended to Stuckey before he was wheeled off on a stretcher wearing an oxygen mask.

“Our thoughts were with him,” said Jerebko. “It’s never fun when a teammate goes down like that. I’ve never seen it before.”My mind came out of the game, of course. I don’t know if it changed the outcome but, of course, my thoughts were with him.”

Pistons officials now say Stuckey is conscious and is in stable condition at the Cleveland Clinic, where he was taken to immediately from Quicken Loans Arena and remained overnight for observation.

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Remember when the bad boys ruled in Motown, the city of angles had showtime and the greatest player ever reigned supreme in chi town — and everywhere else?

Well if you do, K1X now has a t-shirt for that too with the Finals Em Vee Tee.

Take a trip back in the day after the jump.

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Rodney Stuckey nearly decapitates a referee with this shot refund on Nate Robinson.

Seattle native, on Seattle native crime in the house.

Back to his old self, Richard Hamilton scores 30 as Pistons beat Kings
Hamilton scored 30 points and Detroit pulled away in the third quarter to defeat the struggling Sacramento Kings, 101-89, on Tuesday night.

“He’s getting his legs back, that’s important,” Pistons coach John Kuester said. “He’s coming off screens well, and it’s allowing him to get good looks.”

Hamilton severely sprained an ankle in the first game of the season and didn’t return until the second week of December. It has taken a while for his game to come around completely.

Averaging 30.5 points in his past four games, he made 12-of-20 shots and hit all five free throws to extend his streak to 51 in a row.
Michigan Live

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Well, over the weekend my site went down and I was only able to get it back online last night. All I can say is if you haven’t backed up your database lately, now would probably be a great time to due so. A few of the galleries still need to be fixed, but the Hooped Up RSS feed is back in effect.

For an accurate depiction of how my weekend went with this issue. Picture my blog as Brook Lopez and my database as Jason Maxiell.

In his first game back in Detroit after signing with the Celtics as a free-agent this summer. Rasheed Wallace proves that you can always go back home. Jason Maxiell however proves that entry to home has a vertical requirement.

Welcome back to The D Sheed — kinda.

Back on Nov. 1, 1946, at Toronto’s Maple Leaf Gardens, New York’s Ossie Schectman scored the first basket in NBA history at Maple Leaf Gardens and yesterday Ben Gordon of the Detroit Pistons scored the 10 millionth point in NBA regular season history.

Gordon successfully converted on a jumper with 3:51 left in the second quarter of the Pistons’ game against the Philadelphia 76ers for the NBA milestone.

However, Kobe Bryant plays tonight and the 11 millionth point might be on its way.

After the jump, watch history.

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The best (and only) player from Sweden in the league Jonas Jerebko struck again and this time Carl Landry felt the Swedish thunder! Pistons fans should be happy Joe Dumars’ love for ABBA sparked him to take a chance on Jerebko.

Jonas Jerebko is my favorite Swedish born NBA player, because he’s the only Swedish born player I know of in the league. So far he’s having a pretty decent rookie season and the kid can play. Arron Afflalo wanted to find that out for himself, and he did.

Don’t worry, next time I’ll mix in an IKEA or Volvo joke.