Labor Union may take action:

ESPN.com - NBA - Hunter: Labor union may take action on techs rule

From NY Daily:
Detroit had a chance to get Allen Iverson this past offseason, after the Celtics failed in a bid at the draft to deal for Iverson. But Detroit's Joe Dumars never gave it much thought. "There's no way I'm trading Chauncey Billups," Dumars recently told associates.

Even after the Pistons handled the Lakers convincingly on Friday, that Saturday loss to the Warriors was enough to keep the Pistons as only 20th best in the eyes of the LA TImes NBA poll.

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That same beat writer Mark Heisler also weighs in the Sheed Stern rules

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"Some "crazy thoughts" used to run through Darko Milicic's head when he was buried on the bench in Detroit. He said the one he wrestled with the most was leaving the team, unannounced, and boarding a plane home to Serbia. And maybe he'd just stay there and play for his country's team, bidding the NBA a not-so-fond farewell."

PISTONS CORNER: Fine line of playing time
link: PISTONS CORNER: Fine line of playing time

Pistons find good rotation
Murray, Hunter have produced well as primary backups, Saunders says.
It took 10 games, but the Pistons' rotation seems to be coming into focus.
link: Pistons find good rotation - 11/21/06 - The Detroit News Online

NBA Insider: Pistons firing again

"It’s just all effort," Billups told the Detroit writers last week. "We’ve got good defenders. But it’s been a huge transition without Ben (Wallace). He made up for so many our mistakes and now we don’t have that luxury. We have to hold each other accountable. We have to hold our own feet to the fire and when we make a mistake you have to say, ‘My fault, I wasn’t there,’ or, ‘Why weren’t you there?’"
link:MySA.com: KENS 5: Sports


How East Was Lost: Mediocrity and Parity

Welcome to the N.B.A. Eastern Conference, where the line between mediocrity and parity is blurring nightly. Joe Dumars, the Pistons’ president, coined a word to explain the trend: paridocrity. "We’re a team in transition," he said in Philadelphia, "and it’s a conference in transition as well."
link:http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/26/sp...l/26hoops.html

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Sam Smith interview with Matt Dery of WDFN, talking about Ben Wallace...
http://www.pistonsforum.com/nba-stuf...html#post60800

Also includes Matt Dery of WDFN sounding off on the "protection" Ben received from the local press.