Congratulations to the Detroit Pistons. As hurt as I am as a Lakers fan, I must say that the Pistons embody everything that is good about basketball. They played as a team, they believed in themselves, they compensated for each other's weaknesses, and they didn't believe the hype. I am actually happy for Larry Brown, Ben Wallace, and yes, even Rasheed Wallace.

By the way, you just saw the Pistons destroy the so-called Laker dynasty. Their run is over. Kobe is gone. Phil is gone. And if Buss had any sense, that incompetent excuse for a general manager Mitch Kupchak will be gone, too.

Supernova said:

You're right. San Antonio or Minnesota would have been more competitive.

Supernova said:

MORE!!

Right along with this series, the Lakers need to sit and watch films of the Bill (11 championships in 13 seasons) Russell era Celtics.
Maybe that will help them to grasp the concept that basketball is a TEAM sport...OFFENSE & DEFENSE.

OFFICIAL LAKER-HATER FOR LIFE

p.s. - Looks like "the Revolution will not be televised"

tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...rmusic.htm

CalhounSq said:

I heard a report that she didn't even start lip-syncing when the song started.

Ooops. Gotta go catch The Shield final episode.

tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...rmusic.htm

Pistons Crush Lakers to Claim Championship
19 minutes ago Add U.S. National - Reuters to My Yahoo!
By Steve Keating

AUBURN HILLS, Michigan (Reuters) - Ben Wallace (news) notched 18 points and 22 rebounds to help the Detroit Pistons crush the Los Angeles Lakers 100-87 Tuesday to claim the NBA championship and end one of the great dynasties in league history.

Showing attacking flair to go along with their trademark gritty defense, the Pistons completed one of the biggest upsets in the NBA finals to lift their first title since 1990 with a startling dissection of the heavily-favored Lakers.

With three titles in the last four years and a roster stocked with All-Stars and future Hall of Famers, the swashbuckling Lakers arrived at the finals expecting to add to the franchise's glorious legacy.

But the Pistons, who rely on teamwork over glitz and glamor, utterly dominated the Lakers to win the best-of-seven finals 4-1 and return the title to the Eastern Conference for the first time since 1998.

The Detroit victory earned their Hall of Fame coach Larry Brown the first NBA title in his 21-year career while denying his LA counterpart Phil Jackson a record 10th championship ring.

It also gave Detroit's reclusive billionaire owner Bill Davidson his second championship in as many weeks, adding the Larry O'Brien trophy to the Stanley Cup his Tampa Bay Lightning picked up last Monday.

"This is a great night and the guys did a tremendous job," said the 81-year-old Davidson over the deafening cheers.

Brown said: "I told them before the game it would be a great statement if we had an opportunity to win because we do play the right way, and we truly are a team.

"Since this is toward the end of it for me, and we did win against such a quality coach and a quality team, it's a pretty incredible feeling."

While it was the Pistons's crippling defense that carried them to the title, it was the team's offensive guard Chauncey Billups who walked away with Most Valuable Player honors.

NBA HISTORY

The Pistons and Lakers stepped on to the court for Game Five aware that each team would have to write a small piece of NBA history to claim the title.

For the Pistons, winning the championship at home would mean sweeping the three middle games of the best-of-seven series, something never before accomplished since the NBA introduced the two-three-two finals format in 1985.

For the Lakers, the task was even more daunting, no team having ever clawed back a 3-1 deficit to lift the crown.

If the Lakers were going to send the finals back to LA they were also going to have to do it without future Hall of Famer Karl Malone, who finally gave into the sprained right knee ligaments that had bothered him since Game Two.

The 40-year-old had joined the Lakers in the hope of capturing the title that had eluded him in a brilliant 19-year career, but he looked a forlorn figure on the LA bench as his championship dream faded away.

With the sellout Palace crackling with excitement and expectation, the Pistons ran on to the court to a thunderous ovation.

A positive start by the Lakers, sparked by an eight-point outburst from Malone's replacement Stanislav Medvedenko, seemed to indicate LA would not go down without a fight.

But after weathering the short-lived challenge, the Pistons stamped their authority on the contest in the second quarter to surge ahead 55-45.

The Lakers would never again get closer than nine points and at one stage trailed by as much as 28, the crowd roaring their approval with every basket as the Pistons stepped on the accelerator to power to an 82-59 third-quarter lead.

"They came out and played with great intensity," said Lakers center Shaquille O'Neal, who was held to 20 points.

"We started off with nice energy and we got into quick foul trouble then they just had us on our heels. They just came out and played real good team ball and they played well and they flat out beat us."

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Oh well, good job Pistons... you, uh... deserve it...

...Oh, and now for the UN-sticking.

June7 said:

Thanks for granting my request for Sticky Status. lol.

July said:

No problemo... it was fun!

Place an (*) by this "title"

Are you ready for this?....
FTA's for the series...
Pistons ~ 171
Lakers ~ 111


That's like giving the Flyers 6 penalties each game while only giving the
Red Wings 1. It just doesn't happen, nor should it.
Give the Lakers 60 more free throw attempts, and NOW you have a completely
different series...(unless Shaq is shooting...).

The bad boys are back...(a nickname that they're proud of), and that's not
a good thing for Detroit, the NBA, or any fan who knows the proper calls
of the game.

This team, this whole organization will NEVER get my respect...

I'll leave it at that...

I apologize for all the rants on this board, but i guess that's what it's here for.

Game 5
Lakers 87
Pistons 100
Final

Pistons Top Lakers to Win NBA Title

By CHRIS SHERIDAN, AP Basketball Writer

AUBURN HILLS, Mich. - Without a superstar among them and without being given much of a chance, the Detroit Pistons humiliated the Los Angeles Lakers 100-87 Tuesday night in Game 5 of the NBA Finals for their first title in 14 years.
Motown is Titletown. The descendants of the Bad Boys made sure of it with a stunning upset that was really no contest at all.

With finals MVP Chauncey Billups and Ben Wallace leading the way, Detroit was at its very best in the clincher, defeating Shaquille O'Neal, Kobe Bryant and the rest of the Lakers in every facet of the game. It was methodical — and shocking — the way the Pistons shut down the Lakers with their patented defense and pulled ahead and away for one of the biggest surprises in NBA finals history.

"I never stopped dreamin', man," Billups said.

Wallace took a big step toward becoming a superstar with an 18-point, 22-rebound effort that helped Detroit become the first Eastern Conference team to win the title since the Michael Jordan-led Chicago Bulls in 1998.

Equally important was 14 points from Billups, the best guard on the floor throughout the series, 21 from Richard Hamilton and 17 from Tayshaun Prince.

"We just took it to 'em," Prince said. "We knew we could play with anybody in this league and I think we showed it."

Bryant scored 24 points to lead the Lakers, and O'Neal added 20 points and eight rebounds for a team that was built to win a championship with the addition of Karl Malone and Gary Payton this season. Derek Fisher and Slava Medvedenko were the only other Lakers in double figures, each scoring 10 points.

Game 5 was so lopsided that Lakers owner Jerry Buss, carrying his jacket and accompanied by an entourage, headed for the exit before the third quarter was over. By the time the last timeout rolled around, fans were already being urged to keep their celebrations under control.

As the final buzzer sounded and confetti began dropping, Pistons coach Larry Brown stoically walked to midcourt and received an affectionate handshake and warm smile from Lakers coach Phil Jackson and a hug from Bryant.

After the game, Jackson said the chances of him returning to coach the Lakers are "pretty slim." Many of the other Lakers, including Bryant, could be gone to another team. Bryant also faces the possibility of prison time if he loses his sexual assault case in Colorado.

"Maybe losing this one is enough for me to say it's time to give it up," said Jackson, who has won a total of nine titles as a coach with Los Angeles and Chicago, "but I'm not yet ready to make that statement."

Many fans at The Palace stood through the final several minutes, savoring every moment they had waited for since the Bad Boys of 1989 and '90 won back-to-back titles.

The game steadily got away from the Lakers from the second quarter on, unraveling completely over the latter part of the third quarter when it became clear they weren't going to make a game of it.

On one especially telling sequence, Bryant missed a 3-pointer, got his own rebound but missed on a drive, and Wallace soared high above everyone to snare his 14th rebound. Bryant was then called for a blocking foul as Billups brought the ball upcourt, and an "M-V-P" chant greeted the point guard as he went to the line and made it 80-59.

For good measure, Bryant missed a layup just moments later, and the quarter ended with Detroit ahead by 23 and the Lakers shuffling off the court a thoroughly defeated team.

Lindsey Hunter began the fourth quarter by stealing the ball from Bryant, who could manage only a grimace and didn't even give chase as Hunter took it in for a breakaway. It was a Pistons party the rest of the way, the culmination of one of the greatest and unexpected success stories in NBA annals.

Even before the series, the Pistons promised they were prepared to shock the world. What they lacked in star power they made up for in cohesiveness and determination — two factors that Detroit displayed in abundance throughout the finals while executing their coach's mantra to "play the right way."

For Billups, a castoff in five NBA cities before he landed in Detroit, that meant taking advantage of his mismatch against Gary Payton and making the key baskets that demoralized the Lakers through all five games.

For Rasheed Wallace, it meant keeping relatively quiet when the officials whistled him for fouls and his coach sat him on the bench for extended periods because of foul trouble.

For Prince, it meant keeping one of his long arms in Bryant's face whenever possible and justifying the faith team architect Joe Dumars showed in him a year ago when he passed on Carmelo Anthony with the second pick in the draft.

For Ben Wallace, it was about pounding the boards relentlessly and showing a level of effort O'Neal could only envy. For Richard Hamilton, it was proving how big of a mistake Jordan made two years ago when he dealt him from Washington in exchange for Jerry Stackhouse.

And collectively for the Pistons, it was about not being afraid as previous Eastern Conference opponents had been when confronted with the task of taking on the big, bad Lakers.

Detroit never flinched in this series — even when things seemed to turn the Lakers' way on Bryant's clutch 3-pointer that forced overtime in Game 2 and led to Los Angeles' only victory. The Pistons merely headed home to their adoring, fervent fans and exerted their will and style.

The title is the first for Brown after 21 years coaching in the NBA, a feat he was unable to accomplish with Allen Iverson, Reggie Miller, David Robinson or David Thompson.

Brown also won an NCAA championship with Kansas in 1988, making him the only coach with titles in college and the NBA.

Brown said during the series that there was no one — players, coaches, owners or fans — who wanted the championship more than he did, and what made it so special — or "neat," to use one of his preferred terms — was the Pistons' ability to do it the right way.

Malone was replaced in the starting lineup by Medvedenko, who looked for his shot right away and made his first three attempts to help the Lakers to an early 14-7 lead behind 7-for-11 shooting. But a problem came early, too, for Los Angeles as O'Neal picked up his second foul just four minutes into the game.

After O'Neal went to the bench, the Pistons scored the next eight points to force Jackson to reinsert O'Neal with 4:16 left in the first quarter. Detroit ended the period ahead 25-24, then steadily built its lead in the second quarter by running the fast break more than usual and capitalizing on mismatches in their offensive sets.

O'Neal picked up his third foul with 3:36 left before halftime, and Detroit held a 55-45 lead at intermission on 61 percent shooting, including 5-for-5 by Ben Wallace. Bryant had 14 points on 4-for-12 shooting, while O'Neal scored just seven.

The Pistons grabbed five offensive rebounds in the first six minutes of the third quarter to maintain a double-digit lead. Bryant had a couple of spectacular drives for dunks, but they were negated by the Pistons patiently working the ball on offense to whichever player had the matchup advantage.

June7 said:

Thanks June7.

Thank you to everyone for posting.
It was a fun ride and a great series.

Congratulations to the Detroit Pistons.
[This message was edited Wed Jun 16 15:49:07 2004 by July]

Oh one last thing

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GO PISTONS 2004 NBA CHAMPIONS!

Heart wins over Ego!

Watching the news....Motown is making Jimmy Kimmel look prophetic.


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[This message was edited Tue Jun 15 23:39:06 2004 by Supernova]

Not really a Pistons fan, but they had a Prince, so I was rooting for them.
Congrats to the Detroit Pistons.

YES!!!!!

WOOHOO!

Revolution said:

Um...Obviously not.

Detroit Pistons 2004 NBA Champions!!!

Maybe next time Payton and Malone.

Supernova said:

Not really, Detroit did not make Jimmy Kimmel look prophetic. Sure there were pockets of partying up in and around Metro Detroit, including 8,000 or so in Royal Oak, but from Detroit TV reports --- no burning, no looting, just a little weirdness in someone setting off a few roman candles in the center of the street.

TV reports said only a handful -- like 7 or 8 -- arrests were made.

Pretty much it was people hoggingfor the camera and jumping for joy.

You should have heard the horns beeping all over town this morning.

There were more Red Wings fans in the street when the teams won the Stanley Cup in 2002 and 1998.

Supernova said:

Hating on the D, hey that's original.

There was a few arrests but there's a lot of people. See A2's comments.


CONGRATS TO THE DETROIT PISTONS!


Well played game, a humble coach and GREAT DEFENSE.

Revolution said:

Revolution, the calls had nothing to do with the beating the Lakers took. Detroit took their heart in Game 1 and it was their series thereafter. Kobe failed to get his teammates involved. Shaq wasn't in shape. Payton was petulant and worthless. Karl was hurt. Teammates weren't hitting shots. And Phil was little more than a spectator. They got what was coming to them. That includes Jerry Buss and Mitch Kupchak, who should be FIRED for squandering his inheritance from Jerry West.

Twenty years ago, after losing to the Celtics in the Finals (and getting swept by the Sixers the year before), LA rebuilt. Some players were sent packing. West made the team younger and more athletic, and they re-committed themselves to defense. Thereafter, they won 3 of the next 4 NBA titles. This team was never a dynasty, but they have a chance to rebuild LONG-TERM for the future. If this means Phil, Kobe, Shaq or all 3 have to go, SO BE IT. They all just earned a new title: the Baltimore Colts of the NBA.

Supernova said:

Stop trolling...

Well, I'm not a Piston's fan, and I used to always support the Lakers (unless they were playing my two faves: The Rockets or The Spurs), but I'm glad it turned out this way. The fact that Malone is a Laker is enough to make me detest that team. I think he is the most arrogant fuckknuckle in all the NBA, and one of the dirtiest players the game has ever had. The guy's a total prick, and I hope he never gets a ring. The asshole doesn't deserve one.

Shaq and Kobe have theirs, and that's good enough for me. I might take an interest in them again once the king of the jackasses has left. Until then...congrats Pistons!!!

althom said:

This is what it looked like in Detroit last night...peaceful and glorious!

http://www.freep.com/phot.../index.htm

http://www.freep.com/pdf/...onswin.pdf

MITCH ALBOM: Detroit guts over L.A glitz for NBA title

June 16, 2004




BY MITCH ALBOM
FREE PRESS COLUMNIST




They attacked all night, the way you attack a fire, the way you attack an enemy hill, no counting on luck, fate or chance, just sheer will and your own pounding lungs, drive the rim, drive the lane, until finally, the horn sounded to end their eight-month shift, which began in October and ended one week shy of summer. Rip Hamilton was jumping in place, a ball of energy. Mehmet Okur was hugging Tayshaun Prince. Ben Wallace took the spray paint and marked the last game with a big old "X." The team whose motto is "Goin' to Work" had put in a little overtime, and the once-mighty Lakers hadn't just been defeated, they had been stomped and crushed like Italian grapes. The Pistons didn't just beat L.A., they reduced it to a single letter: "L," as in loser. And as the music soared at the Palace the Pistons soared right with it.

Pay dirt.

"Never stop dreaming," said Chauncey Billups, the series MVP, smiling widely after the raucous 100-87 Game 5 victory that clinched the NBA title.

Never stop dreaming. But when you wake up this morning, you'll notice a new crown in town. It wasn't stolen. It didn't fall from the sky. The Lakers didn't squander it, and the referees didn't conspire it. The Pistons -- write this verb down -- won it. Got that, Phil? Got that, Shaq and Kobe? They won it. They captured it. They grabbed it right from Game 1 and owned everything but 11 seconds and one overtime period, in what some are referring to as the NBA's first "five-game sweep."

Along the way, they broke the mold of NBA championship teams. In the final, crowning, 48 minutes Tuesday night, Detroit ran dynamite under the Lakers' ego and blew it to shreds. From Billups' game-opening drive to a late Ben Wallace put-back slam, the team-oriented Pistons slam-dunked the superstar era, ripped up conventional wisdom and threw a bucket of paint on the portraits of four future Hall of Famers, who, for this season, only will be remembered as all the things the Pistons were not: greedy, selfish, whiny and discombobulated.

The Pistons, meanwhile, were five bodies and 10 hands at a time. And all their hands are on a trophy now. Detroit is back atop the basketball world after 14 years.

"I'm very fortunate to coach this team," a humbled Larry Brown said. "They play the right kind of basketball."

Pay dirt.

A perfect first half
What's left to prove? For pete's sake, they led at one stage Tuesday by 29 points! And from the tip, the Pistons showed maturity beyond expectations. Long shots were passed up. Short shots were passed up. If it wasn't a lay-up or a slam, they didn't want it. They scored more than half of their points (52) in the paint. On one play, Prince leapt twice for a loose ball and was already moving to the hoop before he even had control. He finished with a slam. That was typical. The Pistons shot 61 percent for the first half and had 55 points.

So much for the moment overwhelming them. They made the Lakers look old and slow. The fact is, the Lakers' best attitude came from Jack Nicholson, who played trash talk with the big screen. Unfortunately for the Lakers, Jack's only slightly older and slower than the rest of them.

Some will call this the biggest upset in the history of the NBA. How amazing is it? Well, remember, the series was preordained as the Lakers versus "the other guys." The Pistons were supposed to be mindful of their station. "Forget what happened before," pundits kept saying. "This game, you'll be put in your place."

They said it before Game 1, at the Staples Center, which the Pistons won by 12. They said it before Game 2, when the Pistons were supposed to collapse but didn't. They said it before Game 3, which Detroit won by 20. They said it before Game 4 -- another Pistons victory -- and they said it before Game 5, which was over by the third quarter. "This game, Pistons, you'll be put in your place."

They were. Their place is on the victory stand.

Hey. Maybe the Lakers were the "other guys" in this series.

Rings to everyone
Fingers, please. Who gets a ring?

Ben Wallace gets a ring. The big man with the big hair who was the locomotive of this chugging train finally will be a champion. He wasn't drafted, he was traded twice, but there he was Tuesday night, grabbing 22 rebounds, scoring 18 points, including a solo fast break that saw him leave the ground somewhere past the top of the key, a feat of both enthusiasm and gravity.

Chauncey Billups gets a ring. The point guard who wasn't good enough for the smaller stage in Boston, Toronto, Orlando, Minnesota or Denver was great enough for the biggest stage in the game. He takes the MVP award by averaging 21 points and 5.2 assists. But the best part? He wouldn't have cared who won it. "We don't play as a bunch of individuals," he said. "We're a basketball team."

Catch that, Shaq and Kobe.

Richard Hamilton gets a ring. He was everywhere in this series, racing off of screens, pulling up in the lane, curling to the baseline and rising to the backboard. A lot of people expected a certain shooting guard to be a star in this series; nobody figured it would be this one. Plastic masks are being marketed as we speak.

Larry Brown gets a ring. The coach who had done everything but this has now done this: won an NBA championship at age 63, oldest ever to do so and perhaps the most deserving to wait this long. Brown's stubborn focus on the old-fashioned basics -- ball sharing, rebounding, group defense -- brought down a Cyborg Lakers team built for a title, and stamped him in the history books. Five games? None of the victories was closer than eight points? Give us the finger, Larry.

We mean that in a good way.

Rasheed Wallace gets a ring. The newest Piston and arguably the most influential -- sorry about the word "arguably" -- was there again Tuesday night, hitting easy jumpers, playing big-man defense. People used to describe him only as "a hothead." Now they'll have to modify that. At worst, he's "a hotheaded champion."

Tayshaun Prince gets a ring. Watching Prince defend Kobe Bryant was like watching the invention of the iPod; suddenly, everyone's going to want one. Prince's long arms and quick instincts draped a net over the NBA's flashiest star, and by the end, Kobe was merely mortal. He failed to shoot 40 percent for the series. Meanwhile, you hate to see the NBA Finals end because Prince is getting better every night. It's hard to believe this quiet, lanky man is in only his second season. It is not hard to believe he was the reason the Pistons passed up on Carmelo Anthony. Not anymore.

And how about the man who made that decision, Joe Dumars? Joe gets a ring. It means more, he says, than the two he won as a player "because this time I'm responsible for the whole team." Not too long ago, supposedly wiser general managers were advising Dumars to construct a team the way they had done it, one superstar, maybe $20 million a year, and a bunch of role players. Dumars thought about it, then said, "No thanks." He built on character, toughness and team defense. And consider this: Besides Lindsey Hunter, who went and came back, there is not a single player on this roster from four years ago when Dumars took over, yet everyone that he would want to keep for next season -- with the possible exception of Okur -- he will keep.

That's his hand in this.

Give it a ring.

Hunter gets a ring, his first as a Piston. So do Corliss Williamson and Elden Campbell, all men who are well-traveled in this league and old enough to know how rare these moments are. On the other end, Okur gets a ring, as does Darko Milicic (what a baptism!). Mike James gets a ring. Darvin Ham, too. The coaching staff, loyal to Brown, is rewarded, too.

All of the above, and all next year, will be referred to as part of "the Detroit Pistons, defending NBA champions."

How's that sound?

Shocking the hoops world
So how will history remember these Finals? Mostly for their shock value. Here's how shockingly good the Pistons were. They beat the Lakers in five, and the Lakers had home-court advantage. Remember, these were the same Lakers who knocked off San Antonio, the defending champion, by winning four straight, then knocked off Minnesota, the West's top seed. Obviously, they must have been doing something right.

But suddenly, in this series, as the losses mounted, it wasn't about the Pistons' success, it was about the Lakers' loosening their screws. This Finals series, it seemed, would only be over when the Lakers said it was. Even before Tuesday's head-chopping -- facing a 3-1 deficit that no team had ever come back from in the Finals -- the purple-and-gold superstars acted as if fate had promised them a championship.

"I'm telling you right now, we'll win Tuesday," Kobe Bryant said.

Too bad.

"We have every intention of winning this game," Phil Jackson said.

So sad.

"Got to win," Shaquille O'Neal said.

Buh-bye.

Enough already about the team upended. Can the sports world focus on the team that did the upending? If folks watching this series weren't so busy rubbing their eyes, they might have seen more of the obvious: The Pistons outplayed the Lakers in every facet of the game. Outrebounded them, outdefensed them, outhustled them, and, yes, outshot them. Hello? If the Pistons' offense is so awful, well, it scored more points in four out of five games -- so what does that make the Lakers' offense?

You know what? Who cares? "Lakers" is now just another word the Pistons have scratched out, alongside Milwaukee, New Jersey and Indiana.

Hooptown, now. There were gas stations in the Detroit suburbs selling Pistons paraphernalia out of small tents, and cars on the highways flying Pistons flags from their windows. The Motor City has big new wheels, orange with laces, and kids everywhere will be growing out their Ben Afros and nicknaming themselves "Rip."

Nothing given. Everything earned. They hit pay dirt in a way that every laborer and sports fan alike can admire. Take a picture of that final moment -- Ben spray-painting where X marks the spot -- and frame it for next year, above a modified slogan:

Goin' to Work . . .

As the Boss.




Contact MITCH ALBOM at 313-223-4581 or albom@freepress.com. Catch "The Mitch Albom Show" 3-6 p.m. weekdays on WJR-AM (760). Also catch "Monday Sports Albom" 7-8 p.m. Mondays on WJR.

Albom will sign copies of "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" for Father's Day on Saturday at 10 a.m. at Sam's Club in Farmington Hills, at 12:30 p.m. at Barnes & Noble in Royal Oak and at 2:30 p.m. at Waldenbooks in Great Lakes Crossing in Auburn Hills. To read recent columns by Albom, go to www.freep.com/index/albom.

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Revolution said:

you are forgetting one important statistic: game 5 was called extremely even and the Pistons still led by 27 in the fourth quarter. so what is your excuse for that?

the Pistons didn't just squeek by the Lakers this series, they beat the living shit out of them. the only thing you can blame the refs for is not ending the series sooner before the Lakers got hurt.

[b] I am so excited. I slept for about 4 hours. I am so proud of our Pistons and our great city! We partied all night long with class and dignity (eat your heart out Jimmy Kimmel). The Pistons hardwork and dedication is the epitomy of the spirit of Detroit. Our Pistons are not razzle dazzle or a finesse basketball team but hardnosed,hardworking,gritty,passionate and resolute, just like our city! God bless Detroit and Way to Go Pistons! I'll see all of you Detroiters at the massive parade and rallys tomorrow.

I am so excited. I slept for about 4 hours. I am so proud of our Pistons and our great city! We partied all night long with class and dignity (eat your heart out Jimmy Kimmel). The Pistons hardwork and dedication is the epitomy of the spirit of Detroit. Our Pistons are not razzle dazzle or a finesse basketball team but hardnosed,hardworking,gritty,passionate and resolute, just like our city! God bless Detroit and Way to Go Pistons! I'll see all of you Detroiters at the massive parade and rallys tomorrow.

Slave2daGroove said:

Alright, PLEASE stop with the oversensitivity. I only stated what I saw on tv with some fans there. This "hating on" nonsense is quite silly, and knee jerkish.