I don’t know the answer to that question, but if you do, I’m hoping you’ll tell us.
I know there’s a group of readers in Portland who get together to watch games, and I’m hoping to help anyone else who’d like to meet up with fellow fans in other cities to do so. I don’t know exactly how this is going to work, but I know there are a lot of readers in and around Washington D.C., New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, so that’s where I’ll start.
In order to needlessly complicate add structure to this grand experiment, I’ve created four separate posts for DC, NY, Chicago and LA below. If you’re a displaced Pistons fan in one of those locales and know (or want to know) of a good place where a fellow fan can catch a game without feeling completely outnumbered and/or having to argue with the bartender to change the channel, click on your city’s link below and leave a comment. If all goes to plan, hopefully readers from these cities can either discover where all the other Pistons fans meet up, or at the very least organize a new place.
If you don’t live near one of these four cities, just leave a comment on this post and we’ll go from there. Make sense? I hope so. If there’s any real participation, I’ll put up a permanent link to these posts so other fans can follow suit and the word gets out.
(What’s this about? Read this.) Pistons fans are everywhere, they just need to find each other!
If you know where fans in and around Washington D.C. get together to watch games without feeling outnumbered and/or having to argue with the bartender to change the channel, tell us in the comments. If you don’t know where to find other Pistons fans but wish you could, leave a note and maybe suggest a place.
(What’s this about? Read this.) Pistons fans are everywhere, they just need to find each other!
If you know where fans in and around Chicago get together to watch games without feeling outnumbered and/or having to argue with the bartender to change the channel, tell us in the comments. If you don’t know where to find other Pistons fans but wish you could, leave a note and maybe suggest a place.
(What’s this about? Read this.) Pistons fans are everywhere, they just need to find each other!
If you know where fans in and around New York get together to watch games without feeling outnumbered and/or having to argue with the bartender to change the channel, tell us in the comments. If you don’t know where to find other Pistons fans but wish you could, leave a note and maybe suggest a place.
(What’s this about? Read this.) Pistons fans are everywhere, they just need to find each other!
If you know where fans in and around Los Angeles get together to watch games without feeling outnumbered and/or having to argue with the bartender to change the channel, tell us in the comments. If you don’t know where to find other Pistons fans but wish you could, leave a note and maybe suggest a place.
My latest from HOOPSWORLD is a training camp preview for the Pistons. It may be a bit redundant to hard-core fans who have followed the team’s every move this summer, but hopefully it’s a good refresher for casual fans who suddenly realized training camp starts next week:
Detroit’s identity around the league is still based upon their starting lineup, and understandably so: Billups, Hamilton, Prince and Wallace have played together for three and a half years, not to mention an extra 82 playoff games. But the new wave is coming, and given the young and athletic bench, personifying this team as old and slow no longer applies.
Even so, it’ll be interesting to see if Detroit’s subtle youth movement can take hold without the benefit of a bona fide rebuilding year. Expectations should be tempered early in the year as the veterans and young players find their collective rhythm, but by the end of the season this team will be graded just like all the rest in recent memory: did it win an NBA title?.
And speaking of training camp, I have some exciting news: I’ll be representing HOOPSWORLD at the Pistons’ Media Day next week, which means I should have a chance to speak with many (and hopefully all) of the players and coaches.
I’m not entirely sure what to expect, but I want to be completely prepared: if you have any good questions you think I should ask, hit me up in the comments. I have a bunch already in mind and I can’t promise I’ll be able to use anything, but I’d be foolish not to tap into your collective imagination and curiosity.
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