Detroit Pistons
| First Season |
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| 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)
Basketball Association of America (1948-49)
National Basketball League (1941-48)
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| 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
Media guides and yearbooks by season
Media guides
| 1950s | 1957-58 |
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| 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 | 1990-91 • 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 |
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| 1970s | 1979-80 |
| 1990s | 1991-92 • 1994-95 • 1995-96 |
| Detroit Pistons head coaches |
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| 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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