Cade's agent and "team" coming to Detroit to meet with Weaver about when he can start playing.

[treefi]

Will be interesting to see if he is "questionable", "probable", or just no injury report at all for Wednesday. He's obviously been looking forward to this moment for a long time so hopefully he is good to go. I'd assume if he is "on course" he is likely going to be doing normal full game scrimmages with the team before Wednesday so he likely will be good to go as long as it doesn't get any worse or get tweaked.

Exciting news for sure, as ankle injuries we've seen can sometimes be a few days and sometimes much worse there are a ton of different types and varying degrees of "sprained" ankles.

this.

i've been an NBA fan long enough to know that a coach saying a player is "on course to return" wednesday doesn't mean he's healthy yet and going to play on wednesday. hopefully he is and does, but as coach said clearly—they're not going to rush him back.

[Manocad]

There you go. Cade is on course to play Wednesday. Now the team has said something and all you whining conspiracy theorists can admit that you were wrong and settle down.

huh?

I tried to cover for Cade as long as I could but I guess it's not possible any longer. He's shrunken to 5'6" and has AIDS.

[Manocad]

Will be interesting to see if he is "questionable", "probable", or just no injury report at all for Wednesday. He's obviously been looking forward to this moment for a long time so hopefully he is good to go. I'd assume if he is "on course" he is likely going to be doing normal full game scrimmages with the team before Wednesday so he likely will be good to go as long as it doesn't get any worse or get tweaked.

Exciting news for sure, as ankle injuries we've seen can sometimes be a few days and sometimes much worse there are a ton of different types and varying degrees of "sprained" ankles.

this.

i've been an NBA fan long enough to know that a coach saying a player is "on course to return" wednesday doesn't mean he's healthy yet and going to play on wednesday. hopefully he is and does, but as coach said clearly—they're not going to rush him back.

Sure. But Cade saying he's healthy and video of him participating in practices, workouts and bouncing around on the court do kinda support the idea that him being on course to return Wednesday is--stay with me here, because this is where it gets crazy--ACTUALLY TRUE.

[440BB]

When it's all said and done I am interested in why they came to town. I wonder what Weaver will say when he's asked by the press.

[Pistonrings]

Is Cade's career over?

[whitehops]

Sure. But Cade saying he's healthy and video of him participating in practices, workouts and bouncing around on the court do kinda support the idea that him being on course to return Wednesday is--stay with me here, because this is where it gets crazy--ACTUALLY TRUE.

casey also said he was on course to play in the preseason opener, and the footage of him practicing was him doing light shooting drills early in the preseason.

he didn't practice today (while hayes and bey did) and casey said this after the "cade is on course" comment:

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if i was a betting man i'd say he's not playing wednesday, though obviously i hope he does.

[bkseven]

Guess we aren’t gonna see him Wednesday

[NYPiston]

I think the organization owes it to fans, especially the fans who paid a lot of money for tickets mainly to watch Cade, to give us some idea of the timeline of this injury.

I'm not going to get too concerned about the injury itself but I'd be pretty pissed off if I bought tickets to opening night for the sole purpose of watching the #1 pick only to have no idea until Game Day if he's playing or not.

[bkseven]

I think the organization owes it to fans, especially the fans who paid a lot of money for tickets mainly to watch Cade, to give us some idea of the timeline of this injury.

I'm not going to get too concerned about the injury itself but I'd be pretty pissed off if I bought tickets to opening night for the sole purpose of watching the #1 pick only to have no idea until Game Day if he's playing or not.

We need some Dan Cambell honesty

[whitehops]

I think the organization owes it to fans, especially the fans who paid a lot of money for tickets mainly to watch Cade, to give us some idea of the timeline of this injury.

I'm not going to get too concerned about the injury itself but I'd be pretty pissed off if I bought tickets to opening night for the sole purpose of watching the #1 pick only to have no idea until Game Day if he's playing or not.

the ugly side of me can't help but think they're specifically not ruling him out so they can sell tickets to the home opener. like it's very common for teams to give timelines and then update those timelines as things progress. but to keep the situation completely ambiguous is not cool.

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cade was doing this weeks ago so my guess is it's... nothing.

[Manocad]

I think the organization owes it to fans, especially the fans who paid a lot of money for tickets mainly to watch Cade, to give us some idea of the timeline of this injury.

I'm not going to get too concerned about the injury itself but I'd be pretty pissed off if I bought tickets to opening night for the sole purpose of watching the #1 pick only to have no idea until Game Day if he's playing or not.

the ugly side of me can't help but think they're specifically not ruling him out so they can sell tickets to the home opener. like it's very common for teams to give timelines and then update those timelines as things progress. but to keep the situation completely ambiguous is not cool.

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cade was doing this weeks ago so my guess is it's... nothing.

Not true. Clearly the point of allowing Cade to be videoed without an ankle wrap is to throw people off from finding out that his ankle is actually broken. If the team isn’t saying it’s NOT broken that means it likely is.

[The Moose]

I think the organization owes it to fans, especially the fans who paid a lot of money for tickets mainly to watch Cade, to give us some idea of the timeline of this injury.

I'm not going to get too concerned about the injury itself but I'd be pretty pissed off if I bought tickets to opening night for the sole purpose of watching the #1 pick only to have no idea until Game Day if he's playing or not.

I think its pretty safe to assume Cade won't be playing in the opener at this point. The team was pretty clear he needed to have a few full practices under his belt from memory, and that doesn't appear to have happened yet. However, there is no benefit for the team to rule him out this far before the game, as you said, its just going to hurt ticket prices and hype for the game.

JEIII the Pistons beat writer for the Athletic was speculating on his podcast that Cade would be back by the 4th or so game this season. Either way, its not a huge deal for me, but I do think he'll miss the first few games

[bkseven]

This regime is doing what they did with the pre draft process. Annoying

[DTP]

I think the organization owes it to fans, especially the fans who paid a lot of money for tickets mainly to watch Cade, to give us some idea of the timeline of this injury.

I'm not going to get too concerned about the injury itself but I'd be pretty pissed off if I bought tickets to opening night for the sole purpose of watching the #1 pick only to have no idea until Game Day if he's playing or not.

This is the part that's really pissing me off....I mean, in what other business is this acceptable? Even marketing him on social media...but no real updates/timeline on the injury? Should be unacceptable but wtf is going to hold them accountable for anything? The media sure as hell isn't.

I'm one of those idiots that took time off work, is driving across state lines to see Cade make his debut and it looks like it aint gonna happen. I don't want him to be rushed out there, I obviously want him to be healthy but the way Casey has handled the entire thing has been a real turnoff.

Sucks because I like Cade and the young core that's growing but I have a strong dislike of the owner and head coach and this may be the last straw.

[Manocad]

Is Cade's career over?

It would appear so. But honestly if he’s this fragile and short to boot, not to mention that he didn’t have a highly impressive summer league, it’s time for the team to move on anyway. He had his chance.

[aad]

Me and my wife bought tickets to this game so expecting Cade to play so if he doesn’t play we made up our minds that we will not be going to anymore games this season

[Cowology]

This thread is gold. I'm dying here.

[Invictus88]

Is Cade's career over?

It would appear so. But honestly if he’s this fragile and short to boot, not to mention that he didn’t have a highly impressive summer league, it’s time for the team to move on anyway. He had his chance.

He showed absolutely no improvement in the summer league; way below expectations. Maybe if we trade him now we can get back a couple of 2nds.

[Invictus88]

I think the organization owes it to fans, especially the fans who paid a lot of money for tickets mainly to watch Cade, to give us some idea of the timeline of this injury.

I'm not going to get too concerned about the injury itself but I'd be pretty pissed off if I bought tickets to opening night for the sole purpose of watching the #1 pick only to have no idea until Game Day if he's playing or not.

the ugly side of me can't help but think they're specifically not ruling him out so they can sell tickets to the home opener. like it's very common for teams to give timelines and then update those timelines as things progress. but to keep the situation completely ambiguous is not cool.

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cade was doing this weeks ago so my guess is it's... nothing.

Not true. Clearly the point of allowing Cade to be videoed without an ankle wrap is to throw people off from finding out that his ankle is actually broken. If the team isn’t saying it’s NOT broken that means it likely is.

What you don't realize from this video is tha Cade and the guy to the far left are actually the same distance from the camera. Cade is standing on a clear box and is actually 3 foot 6 inches tall with shoes.

[GreekAlex]

Cade might be all smoke & mirrors.

I wouldn’t be surprised if he was just a hologram.