Detroit Pistons
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| 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) Olympia Stadium (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 • 1985-86 • 1987-88 • 1988-89 • 1989-90 |
| 1990s | 1990-91 • 1993-94 • 1994-95 • 1995-96 |
| 2000s | 2005-06 |
| 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 |
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