It's 8 a.m. on Tuesday, June 15, 2004.
Longtime Detroit Pistons trainer Mike Abdenour pulls onto 3 Championship Drive in Auburn Hills and heads to the team’s practice facility. He didn’t sleep well the night before — too much “anxiety.” That feeling quickly goes away after he steps into the building.
In its place, a new emotion: confidence. “Pick a number between 1 and 25 and that’s how much we’re going to win by tonight,” he recalls thinking.