Detroit Pistons Milestones

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Every card in this deck carries a hidden value on the same scale — release years and dates — and the run is one long sorting problem. The first card is dealt face up. Each card after it goes into the gap where you think it belongs, and the value only shows once it lands. Get it wrong three times and the run ends with whatever you had placed.

This deck can also be shuffled together with any other deck measured in release years and dates — tick several on the deck tree to build one longer timeline out of them.

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26 of the 26 cards you could be dealt. The values stay hidden until you place them.

Fred Zollner founded the team in Fort Wayne, Indiana The Zollner Pistons began as a company-sponsored National Basketball League club
The Fort Wayne Pistons joined the NBA The franchise entered the league that would become the NBA through the BAA merger era
Reached their first NBA Finals in Fort Wayne They lost a seven-game series to the Syracuse Nationals
Returned to the NBA Finals They fell to the Philadelphia Warriors in their second straight Finals trip
The franchise relocated to Detroit The team left Indiana for a bigger market in Michigan
Drafted Dave Bing The Syracuse guard was taken second overall and became a scoring star
Drafted Bob Lanier first overall The St. Bonaventure center went No. 1 to Detroit
Drafted Isiah Thomas The Indiana point guard was selected second overall
Acquired Bill Laimbeer The rugged center arrived in a trade from Cleveland
Chuck Daly hired as head coach The coach who would build the 'Bad Boys' took over the bench
Drafted Joe Dumars The McNeese State guard was taken 18th overall
Acquired Adrian Dantley The scorer arrived from Utah as Rodman and Salley were drafted
Larry Bird's steal ended their season in the Conference Finals The Celtics forward stole an inbounds pass in the closing seconds of Game 5
Reached the NBA Finals as The Palace of Auburn Hills opened They lost a seven-game Finals to the Lakers the same year the new arena debuted
Won the first 'Bad Boys' championship They swept the Lakers for the franchise's first NBA title
Repeated as NBA champions They beat Portland in the Finals for a second straight crown
Drafted Grant Hill third overall The Duke star arrived to lead a new era
Acquired Ben Wallace The undrafted center came from Orlando in the Grant Hill sign-and-trade
Signed Chauncey Billups and traded for Rip Hamilton Two backcourt pillars of a title team arrived the same offseason
Larry Brown hired; drafted Darko Milicic second overall A new coach arrived the same year they took the infamous No. 2 pick
Won the NBA championship over the Lakers The team upset a star-studded Lakers squad in five games
Reached the Finals again, falling to San Antonio They lost a seven-game Finals rematch bid to the Spurs
Won a franchise-record 64 games The 'Goin' to Work' core posted its best regular season
Sixth straight Conference Finals; traded Billups for Iverson A midseason blockbuster shook up a perennial contender
Little Caesars Arena opened back downtown The team returned to the city of Detroit from the suburbs
Drafted Cade Cunningham first overall The Oklahoma State guard went No. 1 to headline a rebuild