One would think when you trade away your best player, things get worse. For the Detroit Pistons, it would be a trade that would help not only bring them a championship.
It also helped them to their second most successful era in franchise history.
Before we discuss this trade, one cannot write an article like this without recognizing just how great Grant Hill was for the Pistons. From 1996-2000, Hill was playing at a level the NBA rarely witnesses.
Hill averaged 30.3 PPG, 11.3 RPG, 9.0 APG, and 2.2 SPG per 100 possessions. Quite impressive.