How the Detroit Pistons went from 14-68 to a playoff threat - ESPN
THE DETROIT PISTONS' team plane has often turned into dance parties after wins this season. Rookie Ron Holland and third-year center Jalen Duren, at 19 and 21 years old, respectively, are the two youngest players on the team. They are usually in charge of the music and lauded by the locker room for their mixture of selections from different eras.
Up and down the aisle, the players will hit their best dance moves until, at some point, a request comes in for an old-school hit — «Family Reunion» by The O'Jays is the go-to — which prompts 32-year-old Tobias Harris to put on his best moves, much to the delight of his younger teammates.
«He hits his little one-two every now and then,» Duren told ESPN. «We really might have put some youth into him.»
«Give Tobias a 9.5,» Pistons forward Ausar Thompson told ESPN. «The 0.5 is the stiffness, but he's just tall and he's just built like that so he can't control it. And he's getting up there in age. Maybe younger Tobias would have a 10.»
Harris, who is a decade older than most of his teammates, is in his second stint with the Pistons and just completed his 14th regular season in the NBA. The reunion was part of an effort from first-year Pistons president Trajan Langdon to bring in some veterans to mix with the team's collection of lottery picks. Those young players affectionately refer to Harris, Tim Hardaway Jr. and Malik Beasley as «uncs» — the uncles of the team.
«Him and Beasley pulling out little unc moves we like to call it,» Holland told ESPN. «They got a little handshake they got going on.»
«I'm not part of the unc crew,» Beasley clarified. «I'm still that cool cousin that's a little bit older.»
Harris just shakes his head.
He's not even the oldest Pistons player — that


