I seen this posted over at the Pistons.com message board by Afflalo Power. It’s an article from the latest issue of GQ magazine poking fun at the NBA’s Tim Donaghy gambling scandal. GQ has a list of 6 (tounge-in-cheek) things that they want Stern to address.


Check out #3:

Apologize to Rasheed Wallace. That poor guy. He’s been complaining for years that there’s a conspiracy against him, that he’s never committed a personal foul, that he’s been wrongly targeted by evil referees, shadow corporations, UFOs, and the ghost of James Naismith. Turns out he was right!

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I’m pretty much gonna phone this recap in. No t.v. coverage and I wasn’t able to hear any of the game on the radio. Here’s an excerpt from the Detroit Free Press:

Brent Barry scored 16 points and the San Antonio Spurs beat the Pistons 104-80 in an exhibition game Saturday night.

Francisco Elson had 14 points and Tim Duncan added 13 for the Spurs.
Rookie Arron Afflalo led Detroit with 20 points. Rodney Stuckey scored 14 and Jason Maxiell added 13 points and 10 rebounds.

With both teams sitting a few of their stars, the preseason meeting between the reigning champion Spurs and former champion Pistons was a bit anticlimactic. For the Spurs, Manu Ginobili, Bruce Bowen and Michael Finley took the night off. So did coach Gregg Popovich, who for the second game in a row handed the reins to assistant coach Mike Budenholzer.

Rasheed Wallace and Chauncey Billups didn’t play the second game of the Pistons’ back-to-back, and an injured Richard Hamilton was out for a third straight game with a sprained left ankle.