The Pistons are the first team in NBA history where the starting line-up looks like they're just as comfortable in a corner cipher as the basketball court. This is a hip-hop team if I ever saw one (and I haven't before, because they're the first).
Just look at their gully-fied swagger, their cornrowed/nappy fro hairstyles, and their ghetto-fied names (like Rasheed and Tayshun). I don't know whether to cheer for these guys, or bang on the lunchtable to give them a beat.
And peep this- in contradiction to all that talk that hip-hop is ruining the NBA, these guys are the hardest working, most unselfish team around. I predict that after Detroit wins the championship, the Spurs will trade Tim Duncan for someone with tats of Biggie on his arms.
haha...i kinda feel u on this one... but the Pistons better get ready to loose the cornrows, fros and boombox cus they're about to get schooled by Duncan and his Spurs - perhaps the most "unhiphop" player in the league on the most "unhiphop" team in the NBA.
by the way is it valid to classify a person as hip-hop or not simply by the way they look or dress?
Chima--how deadly wrong you are about the outcome of the finals--the Pistons are focused.
And no--it isn't ALWAYS valid to classify a person as hip hop based on appearance--but he mentioned swagger personality and other things.. so in this case--the Pistons are undoubtedly hip-hop.. down to their WWF style world championship belts, holla.
A DETROIT GOT THIS SHIT LOCKED. THOSE MUTHAFUCKERS ARE INTIMIDATIN. I KNOW TIM DUNCAN IS THE SHIT TOP 3 IN THE NBA HANDS DOWN BUT TAYSHAUN(COMPTON)GONE FUCK LIL MANU UP
yo!!! i can't blieve yall niggas are on detroits nuts like this, yeah i do agree w/the hip hop comparison cause they are hip hop from the props, the names, the hairstyles, and they even have the bling in they ears!!! BUT my friends you have to realize these are without a doubt the TWO BEST defensive teams in the league and the two best teams(as far as chemistry)in the league but the spurs have better composure in these types of situaions, Detroit has been known to act like some bitches if things don't go they way, so yall think about that b4 you say they got it locked, cause Timmy, Tony, & Manu got somethin for that ass in these finals, spurs is hungry, detroit lookin like they happy they made it and tired!!! one
ILL GIVE U THAT MUCH THEY DO LOOK KINDA TIRED AND SOMETIMES THEY DO BITCH UP BUT TIMMY AINT 100% AND LOOK AT THE MATCHUPS.TIMMY-BIG BEN OKAY MAYBE TIM MIGHT WIN THAT BUT RASHEED GOT HORRY THATS GONNA BE A GOOD ONE THOUGH. TONY GOT CHAUNCY SHUT DOWN YEA BUT I AINT SEEIN MANU FUCKIN WIT TAYSHAUN OR RIP IT AINT HAPPENIN. DETROIT IN 7 U HEARD IT HERE FIRST
First Hip hop team? Have you forgotten when Shawn Kemp and Gary Payton were doing their thing in the 90's? They even had the token white guy who was trying to be black (Detlef Schremp). Kemp even was fucking with that yayo, and had like 80 kids. If yayo and mad seeds ain't hip hop, then what is?
Holla
And another thing: Rush Limbaugh is a racist bastard and a hypocrite? Gang colors? what set is Milwaukee reppin? Has anyone seen those ugly cleveland jerseys?
And about the brawl: Ron Artest rushed the guy he thought threw a cup at him, but he DID NOT THROW ANY PUNCHES! So he got hit, but he didn't hit back, and mad fans were hitting players and throwing shit. Talk about who's responsible for the riots whenever any team wins a championship in almost any major sport... those ain't hip hop celebrations where they burn cars and shit like that.
But with all that said, I can't argue one thing: there is something not-quite-right about my boy Artest. I can see it in his eyes.
Ok, I'm off my soapbox for the day.
Holla
I agree with Detroit being the first hip hop team and everything and its funny because detroit was never really looked at as a hip hop city. I'm from detroit and my city is finally started to get put on the map. Yea, niggas die left and right here but that happens almost anywhere u go. And I'm tired of hearing how the pistons about to get fucked up. First of all, they beat Shaq and Kobe. That was one of the nastiest duo's of all time. This year they beat Shaq and Wade. That showed niggas that shaq needed kobe too. He couldn't get out the east even, and niggas still hating. Now we got the Spurs, who I think is the only formable opponent for the pistons. Just like last year, nobody thought they would win, they would take it in five. Watch for the same outcome this year
YOU KNOW AI IS DA MOST HIP-HOP PLAYER YOU KNOW HE WAS THE PIONEER.
like i said before the PISTON's are bout to get schooled, actually the're bout to get knocked the f*** out, stomped on, and get all their ice and championship belts stolen by the SPURS... game one in san antonio was only a tip of the ice berg... Timmie is about to go for 40/20 in at least one game in the series - Ben Who? Rip Hamilton's name is going to be R.I.P. Hamilton by the time Bruce Bowen is done with him... Tayshaun Prince - pleeease.. Manu is about to kick his ass for the rest of the series... The pistons are jus like the spurs... except the Spurs do it muuuch better. Detroit got lucky with miami, shaq was at best 75% and Wade got hurt... SA is bout to expose them for who they are.
Watch out for the Warriors next season - playoff bound baby - Jason RicHardson, Baron Davis?? its over. we beat phoenix twice in the last two weeks of the season and finished the season 14-4... its over for y'all next season.
Fa sho the Spurs are gonna handle the Pistons, especially after the game 2 debacle by Detroit. Let's get something straight. The Pistons beat a Laker duo last year. Not a Laker team. Half of the squad was injured. Just like the 89 finals when Magic and Byron pulled their hammies. Dats right I took it back..(should have been a 3-peat for the Lake Show)..Lakers 4 Life. The Pistons would not be in the finals if Wade didn't get hurt and Shaq was 100%. Don't forget that Shaq averaged 28 pts in last year's finals. Bottom line, Detroit is a good team, but they were lucky last year and this year as well. But their luck has run out.
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SHIT!!!! DETROITS FUCKIN UP HOMIE.
Detroit sucks!! The Lakers aren't making the playoffs next year, or the year after!! GOOO WARRIORS!! We got that eight spot in the wild west locked up... Kobe WHo? Lamar Who?
Hey, did any of you spurs ppl watch tuesdays game, what do u have to say about that...manu had 7pts! ha ha, detroits the best and they are still the champs so id shut my mouth if i was u...and yeah pistons are a hip-hop team, they have "comptons finest"
How about that game 4 people, where you spurs fans at?
PISTONS ARE STILL THE CHAMPS. What do you know about that?
Where are all the spurs di*k riders now. the tides turned now and niggas quiet. U niggas should never count out the pistons, and now we got the series on a stranglehold.
Lakers r gona b back next season Phil is back and Pippen is the assistant , They B Getting some new players and Damn u motha fuckaz who lack faith..... call me buried alive....
SHYNE 4 EVER
they tight but the international all stars (spurs) are to powerful the only good Wallace is Ben and the pistons been talkin shit about Ginobli and hes roastin them badly they arent gonna win so who cares what they are its sports not music vatos locas
fuck those wwf belts thats gay as fuckin pastor troy save the belts for fuckin HHH, The Rock, Stone Cold and fake wrestlin muthafuckaz
Fuck Detroit... them Niggers aren't about shit! The Spurs got this shit wrapped tighter than a jimmy hat!
BITCHES!
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First Hip hop team? Have you forgotten when Shawn Kemp and Gary Payton were doing their thing in the 90's? They even had the token white guy who was trying to be black (Detlef Schremp). Kemp even was fucking with that yayo, and had like 80 kids. If yayo and mad seeds ain't hip hop, then what is?
Holla
I couldnt agree more Shawn Kemp fucked your lil bitch us up if u were in the NBA durirng the early and mid 90s
forget all yall John Stockton was the biggest gangsta in Nba history.
Is this some kind of joke? im done for the day.....
Hip Hop team?....Are you kiddin me.....what diffrence does it even make...and what makes them a hip hop team? I don't get it....I missed the memo....is it becuz they have cornrows and bald heads and listen to Jayz on their IPods......
Let's all do crack cocaine and suck each others dick! Fuckin' niggers!
Racism? Hello...Racism? Redneck pieces of shit? Hello. That's you, so ahh...fuck you.