The NBA season might be over at the end of the night. The Los Angeles Lakers are up 3-1 on the Miami Heat, and the underdog Heat are still down Goran Dragic. The Detroit Pistons are nowhere near the caliber of either of these franchises. They aren’t anywhere close to the playoffs much less the Finals, in fact.
It might not seem at first that the Pistons couldn’t do anything to replicate or learn from either of these franchises on their own paths to the Finals. The perpetually fortuitous Lakers are constantly able to attract stars.