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 Detroit Pistons
1989 and 1990. Notable players included Dennis Rodman, Isiah Thomas, Joe Dumars and Bill Laimbeer.
| The 1988-1989 Pistons had a franchise best record at the time. How many wins did the team have that year? | Detroit Pistons
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63. The 63-19 record was also the NBA's best that year.
Lakers. The Lakers were the defending champions that year.
Portland. The Pistons beat the Blazers 4 games to one. The following season, the Pistons were swept by the Bulls in the Conference championship.
| On average, how many points did Detroit allow during the 1990 playoffs? | Detroit Pistons
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92.9. In 17 playoffs games, Detroit had one of the stingiest defenses since the 24-second shot clock was implemented in 1954.
Joe Dumars. Dumars averaged 27.3 points per game duing the Finals. Dumars retired in 1999 after 14 seasons in the NBA.
Isiah Thomas . Thomas had 27.6 ppg, 7.0 assists per game, 5.2 rebounds per game during the 1990 Finals (Basketball Hall of Fame).
| Chuck Daly was coach during Detroit's championship years of 1989 and 1990. How many wins did he have as the Pistons' coach? | Detroit Pistons
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538. Daly coached for nine years and had 538 wins and a .632 winning percentage. Daly left in 1992 to coach the Nets.
| Of the retired jersey numbers that the Pistons have retired, how many played during the 1989 and 1990 seasons? | Detroit Pistons
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4. #4 - Joe Dumars, #11 - Isiah Thomas, #15 - Vinnie Johnson, and #40 Bill Laimbeer. Other retired jerseys are #2 - Chuck Daly, #16 - Bob Lainier, and #21 - Dave Bing.
1994. Daly is a Hall of Fame coach who has won an NBA championship, and an Olympic gold metal (1992 Dream Team). He led Detroit to nine straight winning season and five seasons with 50+ wins.
100. Rick Carlisle led them to back to back 50 win seasons. Then he was fired after leading the team to the conferance finals.
Rip Hamilton. Rip led the team in scoring during the regular and post seasons. In his first season in Detroit, he scored 1612 points or an average of 19.7 per game in the regular season, and 383 points in the playoffs for an average of 22.5 per game.
Yes. Danny Manning went number one to the Clippers in 1988. He has also played for the Hawks, Bucks, Jazz, Suns, and Mavericks. The Pistons were his 7th NBA team. He was also traded to the Magic but never played a game for them.
No. Ben was defensive player of the year, however he led the league in only rebounds in the season. In 01-02, he led the league in both.
Memhet Okur. Rebraca and Sanchez were second year players. Reid spent the year on the injured list and was in his second tour of duty for the Pistons.
Yes. They got the pick to complete the Otis Thorpe trade with Memphis.
Ben Wallace, Michael Curry. Big Ben and Michael Curry were the co-captains and have been for three years. Rip Hamilton lead the team in scoring but is not a captain. Chauncey Billups is in his first year with the team.
Cliff Robinson. Cliff started at center and Ben at Power Forward, even though Ben was the starting center for the all-star team.
f. He played in Washington, Orlando and Detroit. The Pistons was his third NBA team.
undrafted. Ben was undrafted out of Virginia Union.
Isiah Thomas. He averaged 19.2 points per game during his hall of fame career.
Lindsey Hunter. The Pistons had two consecutive picks, drafting Hunter out of Jackson St. with the 10th pick, immediately followed by Allan Houston with the 11th pick.
Dennis Rodman. Bill Laimbeer was the Pistons top rebounder in 1982-83 thru 1988-89, then the Worm began his dominance as the rebounding king of the league.
| What two players were traded to the Philadelphia 76ers, in aquiring Jerry Stackhouse? | Detroit Pistons
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Theo Ratliff and Aaron McKie.
13. The rookie from Turkey stepped up his play in the playoffs, and looks to become a solid contributor for years to come.
| In the 1987-88 finals versus the Lakers, Isiah Thomas set an NBA Finals record for points in a quarter, how many points did he score? | Detroit Pistons
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25. He did it in the 3rd quarter of game six, despite severely spraining his ankle early in the quarter. The Pistons would go on to lose a heartbreaking 7 game series to the Lakers.
Virginia Union. He is the first undrafted player to start in an All-Star game.
Richard Hamilton. Rip averaged a steady 22.5 pts, but Chauncey had the two highest scoring games, exploding for 40 and 37 points against the Magic.
True. He just passed Terry Tyler in March 2005, and now continues his ascent on the NBA's all-time blocks leaders list.
| The Bad Boys eliminated Jordan's Bulls from the playoffs three times in a row? | Detroit Pistons
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t. The Bulls lost in the semifinals in 87-88, and were trounce in the conference finals in 88-89 and 89-90, and the Bulls finally overcame the aging Pistons in the 90-91 conference finals. It was definitely a great rivalry.
Isiah Thomas, Joe Dumars, and Dennis Rodman. These 3 also made it in 1992.
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