March 28, 2011 – 10:01 am
The Detroit Pistons are retiring the jersey of Dennis Rodman this Friday (April 1) when the Pistons host the Chicago Bulls. Wikipedia’s entry for Dennis Rodman notes that that Rodman was voted to the NBA All-Defensive First Team seven times and was named NBA Defensive Player of the Year twice. He led the NBA in [...]
December 23, 2010 – 9:15 am
The Detroit Pistons are having a pretty rough year, but at least they were able to Ben Wallace’s 1000th game. Wallace joined Avery Johnson and Moses Malone as the only undrafted players to reach the 1,000-game mark. That milestone came a few weeks after another much more significant achievement, Wallace’s 10,000th rebound. Wikipedia says that [...]
October 25, 2010 – 7:59 am
Pistons at Timberwolves by First Team Photo Wikipedia notes that last year was the worst since 1994 for the Detroit Pistons as they finished with a 27-55 record, last in the Central Division. 2010-2011 starts with the roster, and the change starts with their two rookies. In her 2010-2011 Pistons Preview, Natalie writes: If you [...]
August 17, 2010 – 8:43 am
Tracy McGrady by Keith Allison Those of you who weren’t producing a giant wine festival might have noticed that the Detroit Pistons signed 31 year-old all star Tracy McGrady. Yesterday, they made it official. Michael Rosenberg writes that the Pistons have nothing to lose with Tracy McGrady: Pistons president of basketball operations Joe Dumars signed [...]
October 30, 2009 – 9:00 am
The Detroit Pistons kick off the 2008 season TONIGHT (Oct 30) at the Palace vs. the Oklahoma City Thunder. You can get upper level tickets for just $15 and $5 of that goes to breast cancer research at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit. You can also download Detroit Pistons pumpkin stencils of [...]
October 27, 2009 – 12:21 pm
Pistons Shoe by Kevin.Ward The almost completely revamped Detroit Pistons open the 2009-2010 season tomorrow night at Memphis (who will possibly be sporting their brand new Allan Iverson). On the subject of the dramatically changed Pistons including the not-so-dearly departed AI, Natalie at Need4Sheed (repping the D regardless of where Sheed is now) had [...]
Click the picture to see it bigger or get it from Flickr. I started this 2 weeks ago and it just kept growing. I heard Dumars traded Mason and Hooper to the Lakers for Jack Nicholson’s sunglasses and the “D” from the “HOLLYWOOD” sign. Below are my brief thoughts and links – please add your [...]
Yesterday Dave Bing was sworn in as the 62nd mayor of Detroit (here’s the list of Detroit Mayors). Wikipedia’s page on Dave Bing notes that he was a seven-time All-Star for the Detroit Pistons from 1966 to 1975. He was rookie of the year, is in the Basketball Hall of Fame, his number 21 was [...]
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Chuck Daly, who won back-to-back NBA championships with the Detroit Pistons and then went on to coach the Dream Team to the Olympic gold medal in 1992, has died. He was 78. Daly was voted one of the 10 greatest coaches of the NBA’s first half-century in 1996, two years after being inducted into the [...]
The Real Fab Five, photo by Dave Hogg. For any successful organization or business, you have to have integrity, and you have to make everything as straightforward as you can make it. ~Detroit Pistons owner William Davidson (via Michigan in Pictures) Sometimes when I don’t know what I’m going to post on Michigan in Pictures, [...]
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