Detroit -- Professional basketball is set to call the City of Detroit home for the first time in nearly 40 years.
With a unanimous go-ahead on Tuesday from the Downtown Development Authority, owners of the Detroit Pistons and Detroit Red Wings announced an agreement that starting with the 2017-18 seasons, the teams will share the new Little Caesars Arena.
Team officials spent Tuesday morning draping the new parking garage adjacent to the arena construction site with Pistons photos, and a banner reading, in big, white letters on a black backdrop, "Detroit Basketball."
Pistons owner Tom Gores and Ilitch Holdings CEO Chris Ilitch met the media later Tuesday afternoon, along with Mayor Mike Duggan and NBA commissioner Adam Silver, before a crowd of hundreds of VIPs at Detroit Cass Technical High School.