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Revision as of 10:49, 6 July 2023

Detroit Pistons
First Season
1941-42
Team History
Detroit Pistons (1957-present)
Fort Wayne Pistons (1948-57)
Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons (1941-48)
Conference/Division
National Basketball Association (1949-present)
  • Eastern Conference (1978-present)
    • Central Division (1978-present)
  • Western Conference (1970-78)
    • Midwest Division (1970-78)
  • Eastern Division (1967-70)
  • Western Division (1950-67)

Basketball Association of America (1948-49)

  • Western Division (1948-49)

National Basketball League (1941-48)

  • Eastern Division (1945-48)
Venue
Little Caesars Arena (2017-present)
The Palace of Auburn Hills (1988-2017)
Pontiac Silverdome (1978-88)
Cobo Arena (1961-78)
Detroit Olympia (1957-61)
Allen County War Memorial Coliseum (1952-57)
North Side High School Gym (1948-52)
Key People
Players • Head Coaches • Executives


The Detroit Pistons are an American professional basketball team based in Detroit, Michigan. The Pistons compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Eastern Conference-Central Division and play their home games at Little Caesars Arena, located in Midtown. The team was founded in Fort Wayne, Indiana as the Fort Wayne (Zollner) Pistons in 1941, a member of the National Basketball League (NBL), where it won two NBL championships: in 1944 and 1945. The Pistons later joined the Basketball Association of America (BAA) in 1948. The NBL and BAA merged to become the NBA in 1949, and the Pistons became part of the merged league.

Publications

Home programs by season

Season/Date Type Opponent Venue
1940s
Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons
1946-47 Regular Season Indianapolis Kautskys North Side High School Gym
1949-50 Regular Season n/a North Side High School Gym
1950s
February 7, 1951 Regular Season Minneapolis Lakers North Side High School Gym
December 26, 1951 Regular Season Boston Celtics North Side High School Gym
November 1, 1953 Regular Season Milwaukee Hawks War Memorial Coliseum
Detroit Pistons
February 24, 1960 Regular Season Syracuse Nationals Detroit Olympia
1960s
February 4, 1961 Regular Season Syracuse Nationals Baltimore Coliseum
1962-63 Regular Season n/a Cobo Arena
1964-65 Regular Season n/a Cobo Arena
1965-66 Preseason Philadelphia 76ers Canton Memorial Field House
Regular Season n/a Cobo Arena
October 4, 1966 Preseason Baltimore Bullets Lansing Civic Center
1967-68 Regular Season n/a Cobo Arena
1968-69 Regular Season n/a Cobo Arena
1969-70 Regular Season (1 • 2) n/a Cobo Arena
1970s
1970-71 Regular Season n/a Cobo Arena
1971-72 Regular Season n/a Cobo Arena
1972-73 Regular Season n/a Cobo Arena
1973-74 Regular Season n/a Cobo Arena
1980s
October 22, 1984 Preseason Atlanta Hawks Maple Leaf Gardens
1990s
October 19, 1990 Preseason San Antonio Spurs The Palace of Auburn Hills
2000s
2004-05 NBA Finals San Antonio Spurs SBC Center, The Palace of Auburn Hills
2010s
February 2, 2018 Regular Season New Orleans Pelicans Little Caesars Arena

Media guides and yearbooks by season

Media guides

1950s 1957-58
1960s 1961-62 • 1964-65 • 1965-66
1970s 1970-71 • 1971-72 • 1977-78 • 1979-80
1980s 1980-81 • 1984-85 • 1985-86 • 1987-88 • 1988-89 • 1989-90
1990s 1991-92 • 1993-94 • 1994-95 • 1995-96
2000s 2005-06 • 2007-08
2010s 2016-17 • 2017-18 • 2018-19 • 2019-20
2020s 2020-21

Yearbooks

1960s 1967-68  • 1968-69  • 1969-70
1970s 1979-80
1990s 1991-92  • 1994-95  • 1995-96

Seasons

Detroit Pistons publications by season
1941-42 • 1942-43 • 1943-44 • 1944-45 • 1945-46 • 1946-47 • 1947-48 • 1948-49 • 1949-50 • 1950-51 • 1951-52 • 1952-53 • 1953-54 • 1954-55 • 1955-56 • 1956-57 • 1957-58 • 1958-59 • 1959-60 • 1960-61 • 1961-62 •  1962-63 • 1963-64 • 1964-65 • 1965-66 • 1966-67 • 1967-68 • 1968-69 • 1969-70 • 1970-71 • 1971-72 • 1972-73 • 1973-74 • 1974-75 • 1975-76 • 1976-77 • 1977-78 • 1978-79 • 1979-80 • 1980-81 • 1981-82 • 1982-83 •  1983-84 • 1984-85 • 1985-86 • 1986-87 • 1987-88 • 1988-89 • 1989-90 • 1990-91 • 1991-92 • 1992-93 • 1993-94 • 1994-95 • 1995-96 • 1996-97 • 1997-98 • 1998-99 • 1999-2000 • 2000-01 • 2001-02 • 2002-03 • 2003-04 •  2004-05 • 2005-06 • 2006-07 • 2007-08 • 2008-09 • 2009-10 • 2010-11 • 2011-12 • 2012-13 • 2013-14 • 2014-15 • 2015-16 • 2016-17 • 2017-18 • 2018-19 • 2019-20 • 2020-21 • 2021-22 • 2022-23


Head Coaches

Detroit Pistons head coaches
Carl Bennett (1941-43) • Bobby McDermott (1943-45) • Carl Bennett (1945-47) • Bobby McDermott & Curly Armstrong* (1947)  • Carl Bennett (1947-48) • Curly Armstrong (1948-49) • Murray Mendenhall (1949-51) • Paul Birch (1951-54) • Charley Eckman (1954-57) • Red Rocha (1957-60) • Dick McGuire (1959-63) • Charles Wolf (1963-64) • Dave DeBusschere (1964-67) • Donnie Butcher (1967-68) • Paul Seymour (1968-69) • Butch van Breda Kolff (1969-71) • Terry Dischinger (1971) • Earl Lloyd (1971-72) • Ray Scott (1972-76) • Herb Brown (1976-77) • Bob Kauffman* (1977-78) • Dick Vitale (1978-79) • Richie Adubato* (1979-80) • Scotty Robertson (1980-83) • Chuck Daly (1983-92) • Ron Rothstein (1992-93) • Don Chaney (1993-95) • Doug Collins (1995-98) • Alvin Gentry (1998-00) • George Irvine (2000-01) • Rick Carlisle (2001-03) • Larry Brown (2003-05) • Flip Saunders (2005-08) • Michael Curry (2008-09) • John Kuester (2009-11) • Lawrence Frank (2011-13) • Maurice Cheeks (2013-14) • John Loyer* (2014) • Stan Van Gundy (2014-18) • Dwane Casey (2018-present)

*interim head coach


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