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If you were an NBA owner, what would you do after your squad was ousted from the divisional final three years in a row? Instead of making improvements, would you sit on your duff all summer and take the “there’s always next season” approach? If you’re Detroit Pistons’ head honcho...
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If you were an NBA owner, what would you do after your squad was ousted from the divisional final three years in a row? Instead of making improvements, would you sit on your duff all summer and take the “there’s always next season” approach? If you’re Detroit Pistons’ head honcho William Davidson, that’s exactly what you’d do. Then you’d unexpectedly throw a curveball two games into the season and make the franchise-defining trade of the year, sending Chauncey Billups and Antonio McDyess to the Denver Nuggets in exchange for Allen Iverson. We’ll see how the Pistons better-late-than-never ways match up against the surging Phoenix Suns.

Sun., Nov. 16, 6 p.m., 2008

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