Auburn Hills — Isiah Thomas was back at the Palace on Wednesday. Paying his final respects, if you will, as the Pistons’ run nears an end here where all those championship memories were created.
But as the Hall of Fame legend reminisced about the good ol’ days of the Bad Boys — on a night where he was honored with a special halftime ceremony during the Pistons’ 121-102 win over the Lakers — Thomas was asked to assess the current tenants.
How good does the Pistons great think this team really is?
“Well, we all thought, coming off of last year, particularly in the playoffs that they had against Cleveland and the type of tenacity and grit that they showed, in terms of competing against a champion, we all admired that,” Thomas said.