ESPN’s Weekly Power Rankings just came out Monday with the Pistons at #9. It got me thinking: when was the last time we were actually firmly* in the top 10?
I took a deep breath and I went back, back into the dark murky depressing past, drudging through long (?) forgotten names like Kuester, Frank, Cheeks, Loyer...Villanueva, Gordon, and McGrady.
And I found it, somewhat predictably right after the Chauncey Billups/Allen Iverson trade.
It was week 10 of the season, early January of 2009, when they dropped to the 10th spot after starting out in 5th position at the beginning of the season after years of comfortably occupying the top 10.