How Did the Pistons Become One of the Most Remarkable Turnaround Stories?

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“In basketball, it’s never been this hard for me to win games. ” Those words embodied the frustrations of Pistons star Cade Cunningham back in 2024 when he spoke with former NBA Insider Adrian Wojnarowski on his podcast, The Woj Pod . Cunningham’s young squad had just endured a brutal two-month stretch in which they lost 28 games in a row.

They lost 65 games the prior season and went on to lose 68 that year. To say the future of Detroit basketball looked grim would be an understatement. Two years since Cunningham asserted those words, his team has secured the No.

1 seed in the East. The Pistons have amassed 60 wins, more than they had in the first three seasons of the Cade Cunningham era combined. The stunning turnaround has come as a surprise to many, but Cunningham believed the tides would eventually turn.