How to Watch Milwaukee Bucks vs. Detroit Pistons Online Without Cable (10/6/24): FREE LIVE STREAM, Time, TV, Channel for NBA Preseason Game

The Milwaukee Bucks will face the Detroit Pistons in an NBA preseason game on Sunday, October 6, 2024, at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Michigan.

How to watch: Fans can watch the game for free through a trial of DirecTV Stream or fuboTV. You can also watch the show with a Sling TV subscription.

Here's what you need to know:

What: NBA preseason

WHO: Milwaukee Bucks vs. Detroit Pistons

When: Sunday, October 6, 2024

Time: 8 p.m. ET

Where: Little Caesar's Arena

TV: ESPN (Regional Bally Sports Detroit)

Live stream: DirecTV Stream (free trial), fuboTV (free trial)

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Here's a recent NBA story from the Associated Press:

BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) — The Cleveland Cavaliers were hitting golf balls into a lake and some people couldn't figure out why. Jimmy Butler of the Miami Heat played dominoes in the Bahamas until the early hours of the morning. The Golden State Warriors settled in on a Hawaiian lawn for some morning yoga.

No, NBA training camps aren't just about basketball.

With about half the league on the road for at least part of their training camps that began this week – destinations include the Bahamas, Hawaii, Las Vegas, Nashville and Montreal – it may seem like the first few days of the Season holidays would have feeling for her. Of course there is hard work in the gym, but the teams obviously also value cohesion and experiences off the field.

“I've honestly been tired of traveling since the summer,” said Warriors guard Stephen Curry, part of the team that won gold for the United States at the Paris Olympics this summer and spent time in China last month , after he came to Hawaii. “But it’s definitely not a bad vibe.”

Such sentiments can be heard at many NBA camps this week — whether after the Warriors did yoga to start the morning, some members of the Cleveland camp went fishing or after Boston and Denver settled in Abu Dhabi for preseason games Weekend.

The Cavaliers, who camp in Bradenton on Florida's Gulf Coast, have four fields and plenty of facilities to train at the IMG Academy – a secondary school for athletic training. But staying at a posh Florida resort also gives the Cavs the opportunity to host outdoor team dinners, including one that had passersby wondering why the players were throwing golf balls into the water. (The golf balls were biodegradable and had no harmful effects on the environment or marine life.)

“We obviously work, work hard, but also do a lot of team building,” Cavs coach Kenny Atkinson said. “It was really cool.”

The Warriors and Los Angeles Clippers are in Hawaii. Miami and Philadelphia train a few miles apart in the Bahamas at different resorts. Dallas traveled to UNLV in Las Vegas for a few days. Toronto traveled to Montreal, where the Raptors will eventually be joined by Washington for a preseason game. Memphis and New Orleans both went to Nashville.

Philadelphia coach Nick Nurse's hat this week has the image of palm trees embroidered on the side, a nod to the tropics. It seems quite possible that these are the only palm trees he has seen so far this week; it's not a vacation for him.

“We really like to just go out and get away and be on our own. That’s the big thing,” the nurse said. “I think the Bahamas had been on the organization's radar for a number of years and now it was time to come here. The main thing is, 'Can we escape?' Can we get a great facility where people will really welcome us and give us everything we need?' …I didn't do anything except go back to my room and do things. I haven’t even gone outside yet.”

Milwaukee is hosting its camp in California — coach Doc Rivers began planning it shortly after taking the Bucks job midway through last season — and Brooklyn will also hold the second half of its camp there. New York went to South Carolina, while Atlanta and Charlotte both took the road but kept it passable; The Hawks went to Georgia's campus in Athens, the Hornets went to Duke a few hours away.

“Sometimes it’s just good to be somewhere else,” Hawks coach Quin Snyder said. “There is no magic other than the fact that you get a chance to be together and have some kind of change of scenery.”

The Heat have been to the Bahamas to camp several times, and this year that meant Butler was able to be in three countries on two continents on the same day. Travel problems kept him from leaving France – the final stop on his summer travels – until Monday morning, but he arrived in Miami that afternoon for medical tests and other duties and then made it to the Bahamas that night.

Apparently all the traveling didn't tire him out. He said he didn't go to bed until 4 a.m. Monday night (or Tuesday morning) because he was playing dominoes, a game he was openly and happily obsessed with.

“The people here are so great,” Butler said. “The food, the cuisine, second to none. You play dominoes at a high level. …And I won.”

(The Associated Press contributed to this report)

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