AUBURN HILLS – The good news: Reggie Jackson’s knee won’t keep him out of tonight’s preseason opener. The bad news: Jackson’s groin will.
The caveat: The bad news isn’t as bad as the good news is good. There is nothing worrisome about Jackson’s groin tightness – officially it’s a sore right adductor – but it’s not worth the risk of exacerbating the injury to get him minutes in the Pistons debut at Little Caesars Arena against Charlotte.
“He’s not going to play tonight. They did the MRI; there’s no damage,” Stan Van Gundy said after the morning shootaround.