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Detroit Pistons: Is Stanley Johnson right about being a “bust?”

Like most teams in the NBA, the Detroit Pistons have a rich history of getting it wrong in the NBA Draft.

Every team misses from time to time, but Detroit’s abysmal draft record is the primary reason they have been bad for so long.

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Fans are hoping this decades-long trend is finally over with the selections of Cade Cunningham, Jaden Ivey, Jalen Duren and Ausar Thompson, but there is no denying that the draft history before that was brutal going all the way back to the early 2000’s when they whiffed on Darko Milicic.