Detroit Pistons: Ranking the top jerseys of all-time

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(Original Caption) Lakers’ Elgin Baylor (center) grabs the rebound from Detroit Pistons’ Ray Scott (left) and Reggie Harding (right) during second period action at the Los Angeles Sports Center 2/5. Baylor had a great night, grabbing 17 rebounds and scoring 37 points, helping the Lakers snap a six game losing streak to win 111-85 over the Pistons. It was the Lakers first victory since Jerry West broke his thumb 1/26 putting him out of action. The win boosted the Lakers back into 2nd place in the NBA’s Western Division. /

5. Cursive Detroit

Don’t let Elgin Baylor distract you from the fact that the Pistons wore jerseys with “Detroit” in cursive. While cursive may be used less and less, and not even being taught in schools in some places, it’s one thing that belongs on jerseys.

These particular Pistons jerseys were a little bland, and that’s not because it’s a black-and-white photo. They were a blue base with a solid red stripe around the shoulders, collar and around the bottom of the shorts. Red outlined the white numbering and lettering.

The waistband and side stripe on the shorts is white, almost to look as if the shorts have been rolled over.

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More red may work and it would be interesting to see what the numbering and lettering would look like with a red base and white outline.

To really get creative and incorporate more red, the roles could flipped if switched to a red-base jersey instead.

Austin chimed in on Twitter asking for the Pistons to bring back the white version of these uniforms.

Detroit wore these jerseys from 1963-69 and didn’t have good seasons back then. Their best was a 40-42 season in 1967-68. Though they were fourth in pace, they were 10th in points allowed per game.

It gets better from here, however.

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