Did the Bad Boys reopen business? It certainly felt like it. Or it’s just the one guy in a Pistons uniform. The problems that have scarred Jalen Duren for a while manifested on his second game of the season. This time it got him thrown out of the game. The Pistons are down 56-63 at Halftime against the Houston Rockets and they’re going to have to come back from that without Jalen Duren.

During a play in the first half, Duren threw an elbow into Amen Thompson’s face that made the commentators go “Oh, darn it, he might be out!” And exactly as predicted, Duren was assessed for a flagrant 2 foul and ejected.

Thompson was seemingly fine. He had Kevin Durant and his teammates check in on him and they brushed it off just as quickly.

Almost straight out of the Bad Boy Pistons playbook, Duren

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