Detroit — With their starting backcourt each suffering a sprained ankle in the preseason, most of the attention has been on the Pistons’ young duo of Cade Cunningham and Killian Hayes.
There was a third ankle injury to a critical piece of their backcourt: Frank Jackson.
Jackson was out for about a week, but he returned to practice Friday and was one of the standouts at the Pistons’ open practice on Saturday. At 6-3, he’s not the imposing physical specimen Josh Jackson and Hamidou Diallo are, the ballhandler Hayes is or the complete package Cunningham projects to be.