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The Franchise: Building a Winner with the World Champion Detroit Pistons, Basketball's Bad Boys

by Cameron Stauth · 1990 · 365 pages

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In January of 1989, Cameron Stauth became a fly on the office wall of Pistons general manager Jack McCloskey. He watched day by day, crisis by crisis, as McCloskey, coach Chuck Daly, and a handful of immensely talented and ambitious basketball players—the Bad Boys of Detroit—won the NBA championship. Illustrated.

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