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detroitbadboys.com - 5/20/2008

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Drew Sharp has a great article in the Detroit Free Press today on the birth of the “Detroit Bad Boys” nickname in 1988: “It just came up in discussion,” said Don Sperling of NBA Entertainment, the league’s marketing branch that produced a video of the Pistons’ 1987-88 run to the brink of its first league championship. “We’re talking about ...

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