In an official press release today, the Detroit Pistons announced that they will be sending 3 players down to the Grand Rapids Drive for the weekend. Henry Ellenson and Khryi Thomas will return to the Drive having played in all 4 of their games so far this season, while Bruce Brown will be making his first appearance for the Drive.

OFFICIAL: The @DetroitPistons have assigned @BruceBrown11, @HenryEllenson13 & @Khyri_2 to Grand Rapids for this weekend’s games! #WeAreGR

Tickets >>> https://t.co/Nu7UtA9Rkb pic.twitter.com/Ljr85850G5

— Grand Rapids Drive (@grdrive) November 15, 2018

The Pistons have a long break before they play again and the Drive have back-to-back home games this weekend on Friday and Saturday night so it was a natural choice to have the entire gang come down.

The Drive are 2-2 and coming off a close loss on the road to the Greensburo swarm. It will be interesting if head-coach Ryan Krueger goes with all 5 Pistons players in the starting lineup with Keenan Evans (two-way), Zach Lofton (two-way), Khyri Thomas, Bruce Brown, and Henry Ellenson. That would be a small lineup but could also be awesome.

Both Drive games start at 7:00pm EST this weekend.

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