The Detroit Pistons have gone 157-227 since Cade Cunningham started high school, making the playoffs just once.
It hasn’t always been that way in the Motor City, though. The franchise won an NBA Championship when Cunningham was 3 and made the Finals again when he was 4. Chauncey Billups, Ben Wallace, Rasheed Wallace, Richard Hamilton, those were the stars of Detroit when Cade was a toddler.
Further back then that, there were the Bad Boy Pistons that won championships in 1989 and 1990, Isiah Thomas, Dennis Rodman, Bill Laimbeer.
It’s proven possible to win in Detroit.