After a two-day break, the Detroit Pistons will return to the court docket Saturday evening for a matchup with the New York Knicks. The Knicks noticed a key participant return to motion on Thursday forward of their battle towards the Charlotte Hornets.
Treasured Achiuwa has been coping with a hamstring pressure because the begin of the 2024-2025 NBA season. Earlier than Thursday’s match, the veteran deliberate to heat up with the intention of constructing his debut. Positive sufficient, he did.
After coming off the bench for simply over 12 minutes, Achiuwa was again on monitor. The veteran made simply one in every of his 4 pictures from the sector, scoring two factors. He additionally collected 4 rebounds and delivered an help.
Treasured Achiuwa on season debut as Knicks win:
12 minutes
4 rebounds
2 offensives
1 help
1-4 FG
+11 pic.twitter.com/Aa83yN3xW3– New York Basketball (@NBA_NewYork) December 6, 2024
New York dominated its Thursday sport towards the Hornets. To enhance to 14-8 on the 12 months, the Knicks got here away with a 125-101 victory.
This season, the Knicks benefited from the blockbuster Karl Anthony-Cities commerce within the offseason, however they nonetheless lacked depth on the entrance court docket. With accidents to Treasured Achiuwa and Mitchell Robinson, the Knicks are taking a look at December because the month the place each veterans may very well be again in motion.
Fortunately for them, Achiuwa is making his return and may very well be within the combine Saturday evening when the Pistons and Knicks face off.
Treasured Achiuwa will get on the board this season because of a move of KAT pic.twitter.com/ZjsWqJXQ50
-Teg🚨 (@IQfor3) December 6, 2024
Recently, Detroit has had quite a lot of difficulties. After a powerful victory towards the Indiana Pacers final Friday, Detroit suffered a blowout defeat towards the Philadelphia 76ers. Then, of their NBA Cup motion towards the Milwaukee Bucks, the Pistons fell quick with one other double-digit loss.
A Wednesday evening sport towards the Boston Celtics did not go as deliberate both. At this level, the Pistons are on a three-game streak and have misplaced seven of their final ten video games. Their subsequent matchup is towards a Knicks crew that’s on a four-game profitable streak and has already discovered success towards the Pistons this 12 months.
On November 1, the Knicks visited the Pistons and handed out a 128-98 defeat. New York presently has 16 straight wins towards the Pistons.
