{"id":501494,"date":"2026-02-26T20:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T20:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/501494\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T20:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T20:00:09","slug":"pistons-announce-change-of-plans-after-unfortunate-wnba-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/501494\/","title":{"rendered":"Pistons Announce Change of Plans After Unfortunate WNBA News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/athlonsports.com\/nba\/detroit-pistons\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Pistons<\/a> had something special planned, but now they\u2019re taking a moment to reflect.<\/p>\n<p>The Pistons announced that the planned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/pistons\/news\/detroit-pistons-to-honor-the-2006-wnba-champion-detroit-shock\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">20th anniversary celebration<\/a> for the 2006 <a href=\"https:\/\/athlonsports.com\/wnba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WNBA<\/a> champion Detroit Shock, originally scheduled for the March 7 game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/athlonsports.com\/nba\/brooklyn-nets\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn Nets<\/a> at Little Caesars Arena, has been postponed following the passing of championship team member Kara Braxton on Saturday. A new date will be announced later in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The change shifts the tone of what was meant to be a Women\u2019s Empowerment Game honoring one of the most accomplished teams in Detroit basketball history. The 2006 Shock finished 23-11, the second-best record in the WNBA that season, and rallied from a 2-1 deficit in the WNBA Finals to defeat the Sacramento Monarchs in five games. It marked the franchise\u2019s second title in four years and reinforced its status as a league power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Detroit Pistons had something special planned, but now they\u2019re taking a moment to reflect. The Pistons announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-501494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}