The Pistons honored their All-Time team last night, and as you can see, this is one place where the love for Isiah Thomas will never die. (Unless he's hired as head coach someday, but let's hope that never happens). As the Bad Boys were introduced, Isiah easily got the loudest cheer from the crowd.
So could those championship Bad Boys teams beat today's incarnation of the Pistons? Rasheed Wallace thinks not:
Isiah addressed the crowd before the game and joked that he didn't know who would win between the old school Bad Boys and today's Pistons. Rasheed, though, was less bashful. "I think we could have got them. It would be a hell of a game. I'll tell you that. I'm not sure who would win – of course I'm going to say us – but damn, it would be a hell of a game. A hell of a game."
It depends on the rules. If it's the 89-90 season and you can play Bad Boys-style basket-brawl (not a bad thing mind you, I was a fan), then I give the nod to the old-timers. If it's today's kindler, gentler NBA (well, mostly) then I think the current Pistons would get it done.
Conspicuously absent from the ceremony was Dennis Rodman, and Isiah didn't let it go unnoticed when he addressed the crowd:
"Worm," he said, "wherever you are, you've got to come home."
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