nationalpost.com - 5/27/2008
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It's not so much a poster as a billboard, because most posters aren't 50 feet tall. But it is what visitors to The Palace of Auburn Hills see as they pull into the vast parking lots to see their Detroit Pistons play. "50 Seasons, One Reason," it reads, and then in bigger letters, "It's Time." Those words loom above the Pistons starting lineup: Chauncey Billups, Rip Hamilton, Rasheed Wallace, ...
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The AltRaps Blog —
... Funny enough, but the best chance to reinvigorate this franchise came in 2003, when Dumars took Darko Milicic No. 2 overall, rather than a guy named Chris Bosh (Carmelo Anthony, picked third by Denver, was almost certainly not Detroit’s second choice). You swing and miss at the top of a draft, and it haunts you for years. Ask anyone. Ask the Toronto Raptors, if Andrea Bargnani flames out. - National Post To see fellow Raptors point guard T.J. Ford play defence with his hands glued to his hips somehow tells me that he couldn’t care less. Is this someone who can be an elite point ...
Baby eating tipping point?
Detroit Bad Boys —
A certain Baby Eater t-shirt made not one but two appearances in the mainstream media today: this Detroit Free Press’ gallery from last night’s game plus this column in the National Post.
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AUBURN HILLS, Mich. - Piston point guard Chauncey Billups probably isn't going to be healthy during these Eastern Conference finals. But he refuses to let his sore right hamstring keep him off the court or be an excuse for him and the Pistons...
