One year, you win only 14 games and you lose 68.

You're the worst team in the National Basketball Association, also known as the N, B, A.

Then, a scant two years later, you win 60 games.

You've gone from worst to first. That's not a rebuild. That's a resurrection.

Wait, you're saying it's the same team. Same team, same city. And that city is Detroit, basketball.

Welcome to Scott Sigler Slices. I am Scott Sigler, a sci-fi horror and sports fiction author.

And I am A.B. Sigler, audiobook narrator, publisher at M.T. Set Entertainment, where we make

cool things for cool people? A quick note, if you're getting this episode in the feed, you're like,

hey, where's my story? The storytelling is on a brief hiatus, and this is the content we are making. It's

storytelling in sports and sports entertainment. We're doing this for a while while we get

a bunch of other novels and things done that we can put in front of your face and take your

money for it. So you're going to want to listen to this, particularly you've enjoyed any

of my GFL series, because that's all about sports and fiction, and we're telling you the storylines and plot points in the sports.

In this episode, we are talking a slice of the NBA.

Specifically, we are going to be talking about the Detroit Pistons glow up over the last year, two?

Mainly two years. Yeah. So I absolutely need you to explain this to me. Like I have, I don't even know what color of basketball is. Like, I don't know anything about it because I know nothing about it. It's burnt umber. This is of the color of a basketball. Good to know. Yes, burnt number. Okay.

So this is one of the best beginner stories in sports.

So we're going to cover a lot of the basics of the NBA structure and how it operates while we tell this absolutely amazing story about these phenomenal, phenomenal young athletes.

Let's start with the basics.

The NBA's regular season is 82 games.

Mm-hmm.

82.

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