Detroit Pistons owner Tom Gores is looking to bring a WNBA franchise back to the Motor City. Gores submitted a formal bid on behalf of an expansive ownership group on Thursday. "This is an exciting opportunity to welcome the WNBA back to Detroit and bring additional investment and economic activity into the city,

Pistons owner Tom Gores submitted the bid Thursday and it was announced Friday. The group includes Sheila Ford Hamp and her husband, the principal owners of the Lions; the chief executive officer and chair of General Motors Company; Hall of Famer and former NBA rookie of the Year Grant Hill; Lions quarterback Jared Goff and his wife; and others.

Roughly an hour before each Detroit Pistons game, Cade Cunningham emerges from the locker room for his pregame routine. Before a single shot gets taken and sometimes before Cunningham laces up his player-edition Nike G.

The hostility was high, the physicality was intense, and the talk was nonstop in the Detroit Pistons 133-119 loss to the Indiana Pacers in Indianapolis on Wednesday night. Stewart delivered a hard shove to Thomas Bryant and was assessed a flagrant 2 and ejected in the second quarter.