Detroit-debo Confess: I was a little confused when the task entered. I thought when the boss wrote “Knicks/Pistons” in my schedule boxes this week, they assigned me to cover the best basketball series.
It turns out that this was only half true.
The Knicks are, in fact, a basketball team, founded in 1946, winner of two NBA championships in 1970 and 1973 (which means that the last time they won, each word written on the team was chosen in writing machines), the qualifier for six NBA final Reed and Patrick Ewing, Benard and Carmie and Carmie and Carmie.
The Pistons, I discovered, through intensive investigation in recent days, also encourage basketball, and have been doing even more time than Knicks, established in 1941 as the Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons, originally for the former National Basketball League. They have three NBA championships. They have a leg directed by people like Dave Bing and Bob Lanier, by Isiah Thomas and Joe Dumars, by Chaunley Billups and Ben Wallace.
