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The Valenti Show

Is There Any Reason To Care About Pistons Basketball Before The Playoffs?

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

The guys read some of your ticket texts while Mike explains his reasoning behind not directing much attention towards the Pistons until the playoffs.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Okay, text communications. We've covered the Olympic and how I think the gold medal game got

0:07.1

cheapened with three on three. We've talked Michigan and Duke. I still have Michigan in Arizona

0:11.7

and Rico gets the field. I didn't walk away Saturday night feeling bad about Michigan at all

0:17.6

or lessened it in any way. It's, again, it's how I approach like Pistons and Spurs tonight.

0:24.6

Pistons could win by 30, lose by 30.

0:26.7

It's all the same.

0:28.1

Regular season is not the playoffs.

0:30.1

And I just, I'm not going to fake it for the audience and do the zabbity-do.

0:36.4

This is great.

0:37.3

It's regular season. we have two months to

0:40.0

the playoffs like i want the playoffs here because i want i want to watch piston games that really

0:45.5

matter they've established who they are i don't see a scenario they lose the one seed and the next two

0:51.6

months for me it's really not about the pistons other than stay healthy i want to look at Cleveland. I want to look at Boston. I know you're going to dust New York. I said that December 18th, you don't believe me, go to our YouTube. The point is... Yeah, see, I was under the impression that New York would be a series, but the regular season didn't matter. But after watching that last game, yeah, I just think it's more about the Knicks.

1:12.7

I mean, Knicks even needed a comeback against a couple of cellar dwellers.

1:16.6

This is what happens when you hire Mike Brown.

1:18.9

You did this.

1:20.7

But we'll get to the Pistons in a few minutes.

1:23.2

Kenny, the text communications.

1:25.2

Do you feel the same way about the MLB as you do college hoops? I mean, the Dodgers, quote, bought a title. Did they cheat? Is their title minimized? Perhaps it is. That's from Matt in North. Well, Kenny, I am going to have to tell you. You're going to have to reread that. I heard nothing of what you said because I realized my headphones became unplugged. We can try that again. It's like Ace Ventura. Let's hear that in instant replay. Try it one more time. Do you feel the same way about MLB as you do college hoops? I mean, the Dodgers, quote, bought a title. Did they cheat? Is their title minimized? Perhaps it is. Yeah, I mean, I think there's an element of that.

2:00.9

And I'm not saying it's cheating.

2:02.6

It's not.

2:03.5

But when you're out spending your opponent on a 2x, 3x, 4x, or God help you for the lower

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