A Brief History of: The Bad Boy Detroit Pistons

After the curtain fell on the Showtime Lakers and before Air Jordan went stratospheric, the Bad Boys reigned.

This is the story of how the Detroit Pistons became the most hated team in basketball, and ruled the NBA.

Written by Ryan Baldi, illustrated by Marco Bevilacqua.

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[ramtasitic]

hey love that you expanded to basketball. Always watched your football content and was thinking it'd be great if you covered basketball to!

[DazeJokerz]

crazy how ahead of his time Laimbeer was, a C shooting 3's

[RonDollete]

Detroit never lost that DNA. They won the title again with a 3 point shooting big man (Rasheed) and a dominant rebounding defender (Big Ben)

[kemalmighty]

One of the most overlooked teams in NBA for sure.

[henrykao]

This is the team which make me fall in love with Basketball.
Tough and always play with heart. The players sacrificed their individual glory to play team game.

[jackm]

As a Pistons fan I was born in ‘03 so wasn’t alive for the Bad Boys and man I wish I was and was 1 in ‘04 when we won hopefully things change for the better soon

[RobertoVillegas-vincent]

As a kid growing up in Michigan, this will always be my Detroit Pistons. Also Laimbeer might have been my favorite player. Fun bonus fact: As a kid, I owned a copy of Bill Laimbeer’s Combat Basketball. Not a great game, but I do miss that era of just over the top sports games at times.

[DomKennewell]

I’ve waited so long for the return of tifo basketball and you have not disappointed

[ryan]

Great video. The players from that team, Thomas aside, have became somewhat forgotten and underrated imo. People just remember those guys as physical players, when they all could play too

[therealml]

Please cover more basketball content. Maybe some strategic videos on the development of the triangle offence and/or pick and roll? Or take a look at more dynastic eras of NBA teams?

[aasemahsan]

Day 2: Make a video about the differences between NBA & European basketball please

[friedrichnietzsche]

Tifo on basketball?? A Dream come true

[mattatackthe]

This was amazingly written. Keep up the great work!

[oconnorkevin]

One of my fav all time teams. Isiah in particular is underrated. I was (just) on the Canadian side of their fan base and now cheer for the Raptors, but what a team this was!

[Anonymous-pyix]

Oh wow I just found this channel and I'm so glad! I love Tifo football and I love basketball so I'm sure I'll love this channel too!

[zarvonrejaee]

I was soooo excited when I saw there was a Tifo Basketball channel. I love the football content!

[AceTheSkylord]

That Pistons team beat Larry Bird, Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson on their way to a championship, that's kind of insane when you think about it

[denndent]

Tifo doing basketball is the crossover (ha!) i never knew i needed ❤️

[rezarfar]

They were actually one of the best defensive teams to ever win a championship, probably second only to Bill Russell's Celtics.

[anthonyclark]

Everyone knows that the Pistons should've won 3 in a row. I'm also sick of hearing about how the Pistons didn't shake Jordan's hand. Screw Jordan and shaking his damn hand! Unless you bring up Bird not shaking Isiah's hand, do not bring THAT up.