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Remember when Rodney Stuckey was being courted by the Guandong Southern Tigers in the Chinese Basketball Association? Things didn’t work out and the Tigers instead decided to sign another young, speedy NBA point guard in Phoenix Suns restricted free agent Aaron Brooks. At the time I kind of felt bad for Stuckey as it would have meant he could have played basketball at a high level and gotten a nice payday to boot – especially since at the time the prospect of a canceled season was looking more and more likely.

Well it seems like Stuckey was quite lucky to be passed over. According to Adrian Wojnarowski at Yahoo, officials in the Chinese Basketball Association are not going to let NBA players out of their contracts in order to go back to the NBA. (more…)

Austin Daye said it best, tweeting: “Lockout over!!!!! Can’t wait to get back to the palace and play!!! Im bout to go get some shots up right now, I’m too excited to sleep!!!!!”

Teammate Jonas Jerebko kept it simple with this tweet: “am i dreaming? #IsTHisRealLife“

I’ll post more Pistons reaction as it comes in.

UPDATE: Greg Monroe lets out a pair of reactions: “Deettrroiittt BBbassskkeetttbbaallll!!!!! let’s go!!” and “S/o to fans! thanks for yo patience! Sorry 4 the wait! *wayne voice*”