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Will Kwame Brown Have a Breakout Year with the Detroit Pistons?

 
Kwame Brown was the first-overall pick in the draft several years ago, and he has not shown the skill of a first-overall pick yet.  With a great team like the Pistons, I think Brown will have the confidence to give a great effort and be a dominant player on the Pistons. I think it was a great move by the pistons to get Kwame Brown in the offseason, because if they can get him to be confident on offense and defense, he could be the player that the Pistons need to get to the NBA Finals. What the Pistons have done the past several years is pick up players that are not the greatest performers, but that have a lot of potential.  Then they just give these players some good minutes—and then before you know it, they are some of the better players on the team.  For example, years ago the Pistons picked up Chauncey Billups.  Nobody wanted Billups, and he kept going to a new team every year and not perform well.  The Pistons saw that Billups was a player who had not been ... (link)

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