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Tayshaun Prince to start for Pistons Tuesday

Tim Fuller-USA TODAY Sports

It's not quite Kevin Garnett's return to the Minnesota Timberwolves, but the Detroit Pistons will give a returning player from a memorable era the start Tuesday night.

Tayshaun Prince will start at small forward against the Cleveland Cavaliers, the team confirmed.

Prince - acquired at the trade deadline for Jonas Jerebko and Luigi Datome -  was apparently not ecstatic about returning to Motown. He may have been expecting a buyout, but that's something coach Stan Van Gundy says he won't get.

The veteran, who turns 35 on Saturday, was a defensive stopper on the wing for the dominant Pistons teams of the mid-2000s. He was traded by Detroit to the Memphis Grizzlies in a 2013 three-way deal that can now be viewed as spectacularly redundant. The trade also sent Rudy Gay to the Toronto Raptors and Jose Calderon to the Pistons.

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