First, a story, and I promise you by the end it’ll all come back around to Blake Griffin, as this is a Blake Griffin season preview. As the story goes, aurea prima sata est aetas (First the golden age sprung forth).
Thus, the beginnings were golden for Detroit’s professional basketball team. It won a bunch of championships in 1940s right after it was founded as Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons. Next, was the silver age of the 1950s with finals appearances but no rings.
The team moved to Detroit, and in the copper age of 1960s and 1970s, there were golden, Hall of Fame players in Detroit but the results were not so pristine.