by Mitch Albom | Jun 18, 2023 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
You think this is hard? Getting fired from an elite NBA team right after the playoffs? That’s not hard. Finding a new job? Not hard. Moving to a new city? Not hard. Taking on a struggling franchise that has been losing since the Obama administration? Not hard. No....
by Mitch Albom | Nov 19, 2017 | Detroit Free Press, Comment, Sports
Last month, Stan Van Gundy got an email from a fan who said he wasn’t coming to any more Detroit Pistons games. Van Gundy wrote him back. They exchanged views on politics in sports, the reason for the fan’s disillusion. Van Gundy offered his take. The fan responded....
by Mitch Albom | Oct 6, 2017 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
On my way to the new building, I stopped at the old one. Joe Louis Arena sat alone in the autumn sun. I entered easily and walked down the mostly empty corridors, stacked with chairs, crates of paper, old banners and posters. It looked like someone was moving out....
by Mitch Albom | Nov 23, 2016 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Does it really matter where a sports team plays? Don’t the New York Giants labor in New Jersey? Don’t the Los Angeles Angels suit up in Anaheim? Yes. But sometimes, sometimes, it truly makes a difference. The Detroit Pistons have been out of Detroit for nearly 40...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 9, 2016 | Detroit Free Press, Comment
It was built to play music behind silent movie stars like Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin. But by the time the massive machine was installed, “talkies” were the new rage. Thus began the long, lonely journey of the 4/34 Wurlitzer Theater Pipe Organ opus No. 1953,...
by Mitch Albom | Apr 28, 2016 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Tonight, Detroit Lions fans will gather for the NFL draft, in hopes that an unproven college kid may lead them to a higher plane. There’s no real harm in that, I guess, even though the draft has grown more bloated than a whale that swallowed a schooner. Three days? To...
by Mitch Albom | Apr 20, 2014 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Remember Dumars for his best, not this Pistons messJoe Dumars, I’m told, might step down this week. There should be applause. Not the cynical applause of critics who think Dumars is why the Pistons have sunk in recent years. Applause for one of Detroit’s...
by Mitch Albom | Mar 27, 2014 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
The champagne was spritzing and the players were singing and it was a Detroit party inside a Los Angeles locker room. The whole world lay ahead for the basketball players known as the Bad Boys, the Detroit Pistons team of 1989. They were young and lean and...
by Mitch Albom | Apr 10, 2011 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Dear Mr. Gores:Congratulations. You’re in.It’s a small club you just joined, made up exclusively of very rich businessmen, businessmen who usually know a good investment from a bad one, and yet somehow still buy sports teams.Sports teams are notoriously...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 13, 2011 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
A few years ago, I sat in Bill Davidson’s office, and we spoke about the character of his franchise. He mentioned work ethic and said, for example, the Pistons would never bring in someone like “Who’s the guard who went from Philadelphia to...
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