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It’s Cade! Detroit Pistons pick Cunningham at No. 1 in NBA Draft

Cade Cunningham (Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images)

A person who us 50-years-old, would not have been alive the last time the Detroit Pistons had the first pick in the NBA Draft. The No. 1 song on the Billboard Hot 100 charts when the Pistons last went first (March, 1970) was ‘Bridge over Troubled Water‘ by Simon & Garfunkel (ask your grandparents about them).

Yes, Pistons fans have been waiting a long time for this. Since the NBA Draft lottery was started in 1985, the Pistons had never moved up, even one little spot, with their own draft choice.