Pistons acquisition of Rasheed Wallace shook the NBA – and brought another banner to Detroit

Posted Jun 10, 2020
Nobody could have known for sure how emphatically Rasheed Wallace completed the Pistons. The ace Joe Dumars held in his pocket was Larry Brown, whose shared UNC roots – and shared admiration for the man who’d coached them both there, Dean Smith – made any questions of the defiance skeptics expected from Wallace a moot point. (NBA.com)

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