Pistons sign Damien Wilkins
by Matt Watson on Dec 10, 2011 2:05 PM EST
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From the team's press release:
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. - The Detroit Pistons announced today that they have signed guard-forward Damien Wilkins. Per team policy, terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Wilkins, 31, appeared in 52 games for the Atlanta Hawks last season averaging 3.5 points and 1.7 rebounds in 13.0 minutes per game. He appeared in eight postseason contests with the Hawks, averaging 1.8 points and 1.0 rebounds in 4.9 minutes per game. The seven-year NBA pro has career averages of 6.8 points, 2.6 rebounds, 1.5 assists and 20.0 minutes in 442 games with Seattle, Oklahoma City, Minnesota and Atlanta. Undrafted out of the University of Georgia, Wilkins enjoyed his best season a pro with Seattle in 2007-08 when he averaged 9.2 points, 3.2 rebounds and 2.0 assists in 76 games (31 starts). He scored a career-high 41 points with a season-high nine rebounds at Atlanta (11/16) that season in addition to notching his 2,000th career point vs. Phoenix (3/19/08).
Wilkins is the son of 13-year NBA veteran Gerald Wilkins and nephew of Atlanta Hawks legend Dominique Wilkins.
It's unclear if Wilkins has a guaranteed contract or if he's simply being signed to the training camp roster on a make-good deal. I wouldn't be surprised either way, but it's worth noting that the Pistons made it clear yesterday that Jake Voskuhl, Kareem Rush, et al were signed to the training camp roster, while this release doesn't say.
Either way, here's his career stats -- he's a typical back-of-the-rotation player who does a little bit of everything, nothing particularly well. On the flip-side, he's entering his eighth year after going undrafted, so I'm guessing he has a solid work ethic. You need bodies to fill out a roster, and if he can bring some scrappy professionalism to the locker room, I don't see the harm, so long as he's not taking too many minutes from younger players.
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Kris Humphries wants to be a Piston.
"With logic he attacks. With statistics he defends."
by brgulker on Dec 10, 2011 2:35 PM EST via mobile reply actions
Did he say this? Or did you just have a really awesome [read: sexy] dream about him last night?
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Question for you Mr. heWizard
When was the last time someone – that wasn’t a Piston at the time of speaking – openly said that they wished to be a Piston?
I am taking this opportunity to express my intent to sign with the Detroit Pistons. It’s been a dream of mine for a long time. There’s nowhere else I want to sign. I’m coming in to bring this team back to glory. To win a championship. Both teams played hard.
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by heWizard on Dec 10, 2011 6:09 PM EST up reply actions 6 recs
When you fill out the Job application
make sure that you note that you attended Uconn and describe your game as Combo-Guard material.
If you do this, then you’re in there like booty hair.
What would Earl Boykins do?
by FMFDOC8404 on Dec 10, 2011 9:48 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
I'm guessing this is another training camp deal
or at the very least i really hope so. Either way it further points to a Prince sign+trade
Without a doubt, squats are a cure for everything.
by bearded thundar on Dec 10, 2011 5:28 PM EST reply actions
how on earth does this have anything to do with a Prince sign+trade?
All you guys are holding your breath for little reasons. JOD loves Tay. It’s been announced in every way as “Tayshawn Prince is a Piston for four more years” and there’s not a single rumor out there of a team trying to grab him in a sign and trade.
LAC was the team interested, they moved on immediately (likely when they realized Tay and JOD were going to make something happen) and agreed with Butler at essentially the same time we did with Tay.
by freywagg on Dec 10, 2011 6:09 PM EST up reply actions 2 recs
What if there is a small forward getting traded, but not Prince.
Perhaps Joe will do some…wait for it…DAYE-trading!!!
Welcome... to the Wallace-hood
there might be some truth to that. He hasn’t panned out here and if Prince stays for the next 4 years, there’s no chance he will. Might as well trading him while he has some value
Without a doubt, squats are a cure for everything.
by bearded thundar on Dec 11, 2011 12:12 AM EST up reply actions
I hope so, I'm kind of getting sick of him
He’s like a stretched out j.j. reddick, with all of the awkwardness one would expect if you sretched a someone. We can’t expect to run any solid defensive unit with him on the floor. I don’t care if he worked out with Durant over the summer and tore up some summer ball games. He got cut from his Russian team this summer also. Dude never seemed like a Piston, let’s get another first rounder for him.
Welcome... to the Wallace-hood
by tads on Dec 11, 2011 9:36 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
We might be able to get a late first for him, I don’t see us being able to get the same value we spent to get him
Without a doubt, squats are a cure for everything.
by bearded thundar on Dec 11, 2011 11:19 AM EST up reply actions
I agree with the fact that we can’t get much for him but I also agree with the idea that this guy is going nowhere. He is another of Joe D’s attempts to recreate the magic he seemingly more than ever stumbled upon with the 2004 guys…Daye as the new Prince, CV as the new Rasheed, Gordon as the new Billups or actually the new Stuckey/Dumars. I’d even go so far as to say he drafted Singler because he reminded him of Laimbeer
ok even Joe knows Sheed was magical
The only guy I can think of that farts out stronger rainbows would be Denard Robinson. Sheed was arguably a Bad Boys quality, Laimbeer-esque defender. If Joe thought that CV could have even provided a fraction of that type of lock down defense he would have given the guy a much bigger contract. Sheed was paid around 2.5x the MLE, CV got just slightly enough above it to reportedly pry him away from Cleveland => Joe saw CV as a slightly above average 4 due to his offensive versatility
Without a doubt, squats are a cure for everything.
by bearded thundar on Dec 11, 2011 6:20 PM EST up reply actions
Like one of those old 'little rascal' movies
The Pistons seem like one of those shabbily built carts those kids slapped together with what ever pieces they could find then get it to the top of a big hill, choose some poor sap to drive it and push it over the side… as the race goes on you start to see parts flying off until they get to the bottom of a hill and all thats left is the driver holding a steering wheel…
by Maxha on Dec 10, 2011 10:55 PM EST reply actions 2 recs
Can I buy my season tickets now or do I have to wait until Christmas?
by garrettelliott on Dec 10, 2011 11:10 PM EST reply actions
OMG what a great signing!
I was so worried we were only gonna have 3 people that can play the SF position. Thank god for the extra swingman
We didn't lose the games, we just ran out of time -- Bobby Layne
I want to cry
I think is the strange mixture of the shit the Pistons are and my finals that have me feeling like an idiot.
I want to cry till my eyeballs pop out.
WWGMD?
I notice...
That he’s listed as a guard AND a forward. JOD is branching out with his combos. He likes ones/twos/threes/fours/fives
And he likes them wrapped in bacon.
Unbelievable Time distortion space is the place Mean Gene Okerlund go down that lonesome highway but don't be hypnotized no- reincarnation doesn't have to be you can concentrate and you can-mental telepathy YEAH! But the beat goes on.
I wonder what Joe did when KFC
came out with those sandwiches that had Chicken in place of buns.
What would Earl Boykins do?
Not gonna lie…I tried one. Wasn’t bad.
Unbelievable Time distortion space is the place Mean Gene Okerlund go down that lonesome highway but don't be hypnotized no- reincarnation doesn't have to be you can concentrate and you can-mental telepathy YEAH! But the beat goes on.
by SpursfanSteve on Dec 11, 2011 12:12 PM EST up reply actions
KFC Double Down
never tried one but I can’t see how bacon, cheese, and fried chicken wouldn’t be tasty.
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you’re forgetting how everything on the menu comes soggy and dripping with 2-day old grease
Without a doubt, squats are a cure for everything.
by bearded thundar on Dec 11, 2011 2:26 PM EST up reply actions
That was my only complaint.
Unbelievable Time distortion space is the place Mean Gene Okerlund go down that lonesome highway but don't be hypnotized no- reincarnation doesn't have to be you can concentrate and you can-mental telepathy YEAH! But the beat goes on.
by SpursfanSteve on Dec 11, 2011 2:47 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
yeah if it wasn't for that I would actually consider going there more often
Fact is they’re just way too expensive for what they have to offer. If they had taco bell level prices I would understand, but it’s like $7 for the double stack (or whatever its called) at the one near my house
Without a doubt, squats are a cure for everything.
by bearded thundar on Dec 11, 2011 6:22 PM EST up reply actions
It's why I switched to Popeyes.
Unbelievable Time distortion space is the place Mean Gene Okerlund go down that lonesome highway but don't be hypnotized no- reincarnation doesn't have to be you can concentrate and you can-mental telepathy YEAH! But the beat goes on.
by SpursfanSteve on Dec 11, 2011 7:28 PM EST up reply actions
I haven't been to a KFC in years...
but I do remember that aspect.
Jonas Jerebko once killed a charging female rhinoceros in heat protecting its young with nothing more than a hook shot.
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I'm pretty sure the standard for a lot of places is once a week...
Two days is actually pretty good.
Training camp invite
Vincent Goodwill’s latest article indicates this is a training camp invite only. Tacked onto story on Hamilton’s buyout. However, I wouldn’t be surprised if he made the team as a way to be a leader on the bench and in practice. Best way for Frank to emphasize defense is to bring in defensive-minded players to push young guys.
Joe dumars Building?
I do not know if the Wilkins is the answer or piece of the puzzel but give Joe D some credit that he is trying to build some thing out of nothing. If anybody can sift through the hash it is him. ALSO I AM AGAINST PAYING MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR SALARIES AND BONUSES TO BUNCH OF KIDS TO TOSS THE BALLS AROUND AND CHARGE FANS EXORBITANT TICKET PRICES !! I WOULD LIKE FANS TO BOLT IT AND REVOLT AGAINST WHAT I CAN NOT JUSTIFY SPENDING having earned $11, 000 last year in recession/depression after earning $65000. WAKE UP AMERICA!!
by akakela on Dec 11, 2011 1:15 PM EST reply actions 3 recs
Is the Joe Dumars Building the new name of the Federal Building downtown?
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by The Boourns on Dec 11, 2011 1:56 PM EST up reply actions 2 recs
Not just any Federal Building
We’re talking about THE FEDERAL BUILDING – you know the SPECIAL CAPITALIZED FORM EDITION!!!!! WAKE UP BOOURNS!!!
Without a doubt, squats are a cure for everything.
by bearded thundar on Dec 11, 2011 2:28 PM EST up reply actions
I went to high school with the Moran family...they were all quite intelligent.
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I used to be intelligent...then i took an arrow to the knee...
by CheerstoLilWayne on Dec 11, 2011 6:25 PM EST up reply actions
I dunno about that lil wayne
This song speaks otherwise
That or you must just be a big fan of poptarts lol
Without a doubt, squats are a cure for everything.
by bearded thundar on Dec 11, 2011 6:30 PM EST up reply actions
lol...I used to be a Sonics fan....then THEY took an arrow to the knee...
Jonas Jerebko once killed a charging female rhinoceros in heat protecting its young with nothing more than a hook shot.
Love Beer? Me too! http://jimbobsbeerblog.wordpress.com/
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by The Boourns on Dec 12, 2011 11:42 PM EST up reply actions
This is right after he built nothing from something?
Rec'd
For turning the Pistons rebuilding plan into a social revolt.
#OccupyFatJoeDumars
"With logic he attacks. With statistics he defends."
Wait a minute, did we sign Dominique Wilkins?!? Man, that guy can DUNK! Bring on the slam dunk shots!
by garrettelliott on Dec 11, 2011 6:48 PM EST reply actions 3 recs
We got the next best thing
His nephew lol
Without a doubt, squats are a cure for everything.
by bearded thundar on Dec 11, 2011 8:24 PM EST up reply actions
Wilkins and Voshkul??
Are these the best signings the Pistons can do? this is not good, not good at all.
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