Sophomore Greg Monroe declined to return, and entered the NBA Draft where he was selected by the Detroit Pistons.
The book opens with Rodman recounting an incident during the 1992-93 basketball season where he nearly took his own life in the parking lot of The Palace of Auburn Hills, while Rodman was still a member of the Detroit Pistons.
After an attempt to purchase the Detroit Pistons fell short, the Silnas purchased the ABA's Carolina Cougars franchise with the expectation of moving it into the NBA with the impending merger of the two leagues.
Other candidates included Dave Bing, a community leader and former NBA professional basketball player for the Detroit Pistons, Freman Hendrix, former deputy mayor and a mayoral candidate in 2005, Wayne County Sheriff Warren Evans, and others.
Congdon was selected by the Detroit Pistons in the 4th round (2nd pick, 32nd overall) of the 1966 NBA Draft.
WKBD in Detroit invested heavily in sports programming, securing rights to carry games of the NBA's Detroit Pistons, the NHL's Detroit Red Wings, and other area college teams early in its history.
In 2004, Giangreco was suspended one week without pay for a joke on the city of Detroit, Michigan after the Detroit Pistons won the NBA championship.
No One Gets Out is Halloween's second release and is perhaps their most well known for the song "Kings" which was played at the 1990 Detroit Pistons playoff game.
After an attempt to buy the Detroit Pistons fell short, the Silnas purchased the ABA's Carolina Cougars franchise with the expectation of moving it into the NBA with the impending merger of the two leagues.
Bill Laimbeer (Detroit Pistons star and current WNBA coach), Class of '75 and leader of the 1975 CIF championship basketball team.
The following year, he moved to Detroit to work for WJR Radio to call games for the NBA Detroit Pistons (1980–1981), and then to WWJ Radio in to call football and basketball for the University of Michigan from 1981–1987.
This streak saw a record-high 318 guests for Survivor Slam III in December '03, and a record low 47 on that humid June night in 2005 when the San Antonio Spurs were dismantling the Detroit Pistons en route to their third NBA title.
The Detroit Pistons used teal as one of their primary colors from 1996 to 2001.
From 1988–1994, he was the Pistons beat writer for The Detroit News during the Bad Boys era.
The writers from the other Detroit area Journal Register newspapers who appear frequently in The Macomb Daily are Oakland Press staff writers Gary Graff (who covers pop music), Jim Hawkins (Detroit Tigers), Paula Pasche (Detroit Lions), and Dave Pemberton (Detroit Pistons and Michigan State Spartans) and the News-Heralds Matthew Mowery (Michigan Wolverines).
His son, Allan Houston played for him at Tennessee and later went on to the National Basketball Association for the Detroit Pistons and New York Knicks.
Wallace is also the boyhood home of M. L. Carr who played professionally overseas, and with the Detroit Pistons and Boston Celtics.
The station was the Detroit Pistons' Mid-Michigan home from its inception until 2006.
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John Salley won four championship rings with three different NBA teams (Detroit Pistons, Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers) before becoming one of the hosts of The Best Damn Sports Show Period on Fox Sports Network.
Auburn Hills is home to the North American headquarters of Faurecia, Volkswagen/Audi North American Headquarters, Oakland University, BorgWarner, Guardian Industries, RGIS, Great Lakes Crossing shopping mall, as well as The Palace of Auburn Hills, home of the National Basketball Association's Detroit Pistons and the former home of Women's National Basketball Association's Detroit Shock.
The game stars Bill Laimbeer, who played for the Detroit Pistons of the NBA during a time when the team was notorious for aggressive and physical play.
Checketts was hired in 2011 to serve as a consultant for new Detroit Pistons owner Tom Gores.
Dennis M. Mannion is the President/CEO of Palace Sports and Entertainment for all Business Operations of the Detroit Pistons, The Palace of Auburn Hills, the DTE Energy Center, and the Meadowbrook Music Festival on the Oakland University campus.
The Detroit Medical Center is as an award winning medical center and is the official healthcare services provider for the Detroit Tigers, the Detroit Red Wings, the Detroit Pistons, the Detroit Shock and the Detroit Grand Prix.
His longest tenures were with the Lakers and the Hornets (in Charlotte and New Orleans); he would also play with the Seattle SuperSonics and briefly for the New Jersey Nets, spending most of the final two seasons of his career as a member of the Detroit Pistons, being on roster in the 2004 NBA Championship team.