Detroit Pistons Information

As a city that loves its sports, Detroit, Michigan is home to many professional sports teams. These teams include Major League Baseball's Detroit Tigers, the NFL's Detroit Lions, the NHL's Detroit Red Wings, the WNBA's Detroit Shock and even a professional women's football team known as the Detroit Demolition. But the NBA's Detroit Pistons may be the Motor City's favorite franchise.

The Detroit Pistons are exploding on the basketball court gathering points like Little Red Riding hood gathers berries for her grandmother. Only Detroit Pistons tickets will give you access to the Palace of Auburn Hills to witness this world-renowned NBA team.

Founded in 1941 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the owner by the name of Fred Zollner was a manufacturer of piston parts for General Motors, hence the name the Detroit Pistons. The Fort Wayne Pistons, as they were called, moved to Detroit after another NBA franchise, the Detroit Gems folded after only one season. With the acquisition of Isiah Thomas from Indiana University in 1981, Bill Laimbeer and Vinnie Johnson in 1982, the Detroit Pistons began seeing greener pastures. Later acquisitions including Joe Dumars, Rick Mahorn, and Dennis Rodman primed the Detroit Pistons for championship success.

The players' physical, intense style of play deemed the Pistons the nickname "Bad Boys." These aggressive tactics worked and led the Pistons to the NBA Finals three consecutive years from 1988 to 1990 and two NBA championships in 1989 and 1990. The glory eventually ended as the 1990s marked a black period in the franchise's history. To add insult to injury, the franchise even changed its team colors from Red, White, and Blue to an unpopular combination of Teal, Orange, and White.

A decade after their last championship saw the Detroit Pistons in the Finals again under head coach Rick Carlisle. Unfortunately for Carlisle, this was not enough to secure his job and in 2003 he was fired and replaced by legendary Larry Brown. Brown led the Detroit Pistons to a NBA championship in 2004 in an unpredicted upset against the heavily favored Los Angeles Lakers in five games.

Once upon a time, it was impossible to give away a Detroit Pistons ticket; now after repeated success on the court, almost every home game is sold out. This is quite a feat if you factor in the fact that the Palace of Auburn Hills is the league's largest stadium. Whether at home or on the road, fans are among the most supportive of the league. With their Detroit Pistons tickets held tightly, they root on their team and do every thing in their power to distract the opposing teams. Detroit Pistons fans are so fanatical that in one case in 2004, a massive brawl broke out after a Pistons' fan hit a member of the opposing team with a cup. Now that's a diehard Pistons' fan!