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Detroit Pistons


Detroit Pistons

The Detroit Pistons is a team in the National Basketball Association based in Auburn Hills, Michigan. They play in the Eastern Conference as part of the Central Division with the Milwaukee Bucks, Indiana Pacers, Cleveland Cavaliers, and Chicago Bulls.

About Detroit Pistons

The franchise was founded as the Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons, a National Basketball League (NBL) team, playing in the gym of North Side High School in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Owner Fred Zollner's Zollner Corporation was a foundry, manufacturing pistons, primarily for car, truck and locomotive engines. In 1948, the team became the Fort Wayne Pistons, competing in the Basketball Association of America (BAA). In 1949, Fred Zollner brokered the formation of the National Basketball Association from the BAA and the NBL at his kitchen table.

In 1957, Zollner moved the team to Detroit, a much larger city which had not seen professional basketball in a decade. In 1947, they had lost the Detroit Gems of the NBL, who moved to become the Minneapolis Lakers (now the Los Angeles Lakers), and the Detroit Falcons of the BAA, which folded.

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