What is the best Detroit Pistons season?

A bruising title team, a no-superstar champion and a record-setting 64-win machine make this a hard call. Grit or balance, you pick the year worth replaying.

1. 1
   2005-06

   Detroit posted a franchise-record 64 wins and the top seed in the East.
   1000pts
2. 2
   2003-04

   A team without a superstar beat the Lakers' Hall of Fame lineup in five games to win the title.
   800pts
3. 3
   2001-02

   Detroit won 50 games and its division behind Ben Wallace, the first step in the Going to Work rebuild.
   600pts
4. 4
   1987-88

   Isiah Thomas and the Bad Boys reached the NBA Finals and took the Lakers to seven games.
   491pts
5. 5
   1988-89

   A 63-win season that ended with the franchise's first championship, a sweep of the Lakers.
   360pts
6. 6
   2004-05

   The defending champions pushed the Spurs to a seventh game in the Finals.
   0pts

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