Hello and welcome to Who Collective Podcast.

We talk about the NBA, which is doing on Thursday afternoon while all you guys are watching college basketball.

We're podcasting and keeping all these guys and our producers from watching.

But that's the way it goes.

Joining us from New York City.

By the way. Oh, you're watching.

Yeah, look, the Duke game, right? To my right. I'll let y'all know. I'll let y'all know. All right. Yeah, it'll be days later. It'll be, you know, hours later. They'll all know. But joining us from New York City is Vince Goodwell. What up, though, Wendy. How are you?

Do you know while you're in New York City and you're stopping grounds of Detroit, that is where Anthony Slater joins us from today. It's only appropriate that we have some Detroit voice here. I had a very Vince and Goodwill Day today. I went to the Pistons, I think new facility. How recent is their practice facility? It's nice. About four or five years. Yeah. Yeah. And Jerry Stackhouse, Warriors Assistant Coach, and I was in there working out, and I was joking with him. Like, it wasn't this nice when you played here, right? But we were also looking at all, they have all the retired jerseys up in the facility, or at least the numbers up there. And I was surprised to see Dennis Rodman. maybe I'm just too young and I just don't remember the Rodman era of Pistons well enough to know that it would be retired. But I was asking Steve Kerr about it. And should I have been surprised? That was the best version of Dennis Rodman that we've seen. You just remember the wildness. But Dennis Rodman and Detroit was the best defender we've ever seen in basketball because he could defend one through five and then it became the best rebound that we've ever seen. Yeah. Steve made that point. When I said, I was like, Rodman, really? He's like, you should have seen him as a defender at that time. And then his other point was winning. You get, you know, accolades come with winning. Because my other point was Stackhouse is over there working out in the weight room.

I was like, oh, no Stackhouse.

I guess that shouldn't surprise me.

He probably didn't have that type of career there.

He'll play a five years in Detroit.

He didn't play there.

Stackhouse's biggest contribution to the Pistons was he was traded for Rip Hamilton.

It's a pretty big contribution.

He was on the wall, Rip Hamilton. It's a pretty big contribution. He was on the wall, Rip Hamilton.

Winning. Joe Dumars, Vince, Joe Dumars went through the streak of transactions he made from 2002 to drafting Darko.

It stopped like a brick wall then.

But he went through a three-year span of transactions.

Not only the draft picks and the trade,

but also the contracts that he traded,

that was his hot of a run for an executive in the modern era of the NBA.

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