Best Of The Pistons on 97.1 The Ticket: Is Detroit The Best Team In The NBA? Does Cade Have The Best Case For MVP?

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🗓️ 21 February 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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The Pistons notched another statement win against the Knicks, with Cade Cunningham doubling down on his MVP case at Madison Square Garden. Is anything possible with this team??

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0:00.0	A couple noteworthy things coming out of the NBA All-Star weekend.
0:05.2	One is the athletic came out with their new power rankings in the NBA.
0:13.1	That's right.
0:14.5	Look you here.
0:16.3	The Detroit Pistons are ranking as the number one team in the NBA.
0:19.5	Well, how about that?
0:21.6	And I'm intrigued by this.
0:26.8	When I see something like this, I go, okay, is this really believed or is this, let's shake things up?
0:32.0	Let's get some clicks.
0:34.6	Because I love our Pistons.
0:38.0	I'm not comfortable saying they're the best team in the NBA right now.
0:41.9	Well, keep in my, power rankings are always going to be about where they're at right now.
0:45.9	Okay?
0:46.5	And where the Pistons are at right now, they have the best record in the NBA by percentage points over Oklahoma City.
0:54.3	Also, look at a little bit of a sample size, go the last 10 games.
0:58.6	The Pistons are 8 and 2 in their last 10 games.
1:00.7	Oklahoma City is 5 and 5.
1:03.7	So is it unfair to say that right now the Pistons are the best team in the NBA?
1:07.8	I don't think it's unfair to say that.
1:09.0	Well, the person to put these together, Law Murray from the athletic said, put this out and said, what to expect from these
1:17.5	power rankings. These are my subjective rankings. I will consider a variety of objective
1:21.5	measures, but it's my final call. These rankings are not just a review of the past week. We're
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