{"id":321248,"date":"2011-03-19T00:44:22","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T00:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/19\/minus-hamilton-pistons-go-big-at-guard-ap\/"},"modified":"2011-03-19T00:44:22","modified_gmt":"2011-03-19T00:44:22","slug":"minus-hamilton-pistons-go-big-at-guard-ap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/19\/minus-hamilton-pistons-go-big-at-guard-ap\/","title":{"rendered":"Minus Hamilton, Pistons go big at guard (AP)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"40.7428571429\">\n<p>AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP)\u2014Detroit\u2019s <span><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/3330\/\">Richard Hamilton<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/3330\/news\">(notes)<\/a><\/span> missed Friday night\u2019s<br \/>\ngame against the <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/teams\/nyk\/\">New York Knicks<\/a> because of the death of his grandfather, and<br \/>\nthe Pistons started an unusually tall backcourt in his absence.<\/p>\n<p>Detroit went with 6-foot-8 <span><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/3179\/\">Tracy McGrady<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/3179\/news\">(notes)<\/a><\/span> and 6-11 <span><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/4620\/\">Austin Daye<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/4620\/news\">(notes)<\/a><\/span> at guard.<br \/>\nTheir combined height is the tallest for a starting backcourt since at least<br \/>\n1986-87, according to STATS, LLC.<\/p>\n<p>All five starters for the Pistons were between 6-8 and 6-11.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton scored 24 points in a win over Toronto on Wednesday night. He fell<br \/>\nout of favor with coach John Kuester earlier this season but recently returned<br \/>\nto the starting lineup.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/a472c288zona.jpg.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read this article:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/us.rd.yahoo.com\/sports\/rss\/nba\/SIG=11tf4h722\/*http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/news?slug=ap-pistons-hamilton\" title=\"Minus Hamilton, Pistons go big at guard (AP)\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Minus Hamilton, Pistons go big at guard (AP)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP)\u2014Detroit\u2019s Richard Hamilton (notes) missed Friday night\u2019s game against the New York Knicks because of the death of his grandfather, and the Pistons started an unusually tall backcourt in his absence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Minus Hamilton, Pistons go big at guard (AP) - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/19\/minus-hamilton-pistons-go-big-at-guard-ap\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Minus Hamilton, Pistons go big at guard (AP) - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"AUBURN HILLS, Mich. 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