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When the Thunder's season came to an end with an 88-84 loss to Memphis in Game 5 of their Western Conference semifinal on Wednesday night, four-time All-Star Kevin Durant no doubt was exhausted.

Georgetown swingman Otto Porter is one of the Pistons' targets for next month's NBA draft and Porter compared himself to a player who just left town.

The whistle blew, charging Michael Curry with his fourth foul, and Tracy McGrady haughtily strode away from the action, his body language asking what anyone watching must have been asking themselves: Who can stop me? This was McGrady at his peak during the 2002-03 season.

We're just a week away from the 2013 NBA draft combine in Chicago. This is officially when all the action picks up.

"The Pistons have had a bit of luck the past few years in the lottery. Every year a player who is ranked very high at the start of the season seems to slide to them later in the draft and somehow fits a perfect need.

The second round of the 2013 NBA playoffs is in full swing, but 22 teams are on the outside looking in and scheming of ways to make a run next season.

Former Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers coach Phil Jackson will serve as a consultant to help the Detroit Pistons hire their next coach.

Brian Shaw, who has interviewed for at least four head-coaching jobs and turned down one, is an inevitable choice to be an NBA head coach in the near future.

The season is over, coach Lawrence Frank is history and now the Detroit Pistons go about trying to improve their product with a new bench boss and several new faces on a roster that is going to change dramatically by next fall.

So now that the smoldering dumpster fire which was the Detroit Pistons ' season has come to a merciful end, it is time to press on with the business of rebuilding this once proud franchise.