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This is the celebration and truth about the Detroit “Bad Boys” Pistons. It is time for a new story to be written. Critics and detractors of those championship teams for their “tough” style of play have created a narrative that disrespects and under celebrates one of the NBA’s greatest champions of all time. Why not? Statistically “The Bad Boys” were in the top 10 in many offensive and defensive categories.
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The Detroit Pistons, specifically, the self-proclaimed “Bad Boys” era, won back to back titles, yet are hardly mentioned in the same breath as past and current champions. With winning, comes a certain amount of respect, prestige, and celebration of the team’s accomplishments, usually. In the NBA, many teams have won the coveted Larry O’Brien trophy.
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It is a long, hard, difficult, challenging, struggle, but well worth it all once the team is crowned as the league’s best. Try likening the journey of a team on a path to winning the championship, to climbing and eventually reaching the top of a mountain. The Detroit Pistons "Bad Boys": Disrespected Instead Of Celebrated One of the most challenging things to do in sports is to win a title.