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The Detroit Pistons are an American professional basketball team based in Detroit. The Pistons compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the Central Division of the Eastern Conference. The team plays its home games at Little Caesars Arena, located in Midtown Detroit. The team was founded as the Fort Wayne Zollner ...
Charles Jerome Daly (July 20, 1930 – May 9, 2009) was an American basketball head coach.He led the Detroit Pistons to two consecutive National Basketball Association (NBA) championships in 1989 and 1990—during the team's "Bad Boys" era—and the 1992 United States men's Olympic basketball team ("The Dream Team") to the gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics.
The Detroit Pistons weren't good last year and aren't supposed to be good this year. But you'd still expect them to keep track of how many players they have on the floor.
The Pistons have lost at a prolific rate since Weaver took over in 2020, their past three seasons ending with 20, 23, and 17 wins, the last being the NBA’s lowest win total in 2022-23.
Following an extended era of mediocrity the Pistons, led by the Hall of Fame backcourt of Isiah Thomas and Joe Dumars and nicknamed the "Bad Boys" for their intimidating defence, posted winning records every seasons from 1983–84 to 1991–92, and after narrowly losing in 1988, ended the Lakers dynasty of the 1980s the following season and ...
He was traded to the Detroit Pistons in November 1981. [2] During the 1982-83 NBA season , Johnson scored a career high 15.8 points a game while starting in 51 of the 82 games he played in. [ 3 ] For the rest of his career, he would mostly play as an important role player coming off the bench.
Detroit Pistons 2023-24 City Edition uniforms honor the Bad Boys era: Black, orange, grey and white colorway, with “Detroit” in classic script font.
William Laimbeer Jr. (born May 19, 1957) is an American former professional basketball coach and player who spent the majority of his career with the Detroit Pistons.Known for his physical style of play, he played a big part in the Pistons earning the nickname the “Bad Boys" in the mid-1980s before helping them win back-to-back NBA championships.