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04/16/2004: "Improved Pistons"

Key stat from The Detroit News:

[Joe Dumars] completed his fifth season as Pistons president and has turned around a franchise few cared about. They were 74-90 his first two seasons, 153-91 the last three.

(Actually, nba.com says they went 50-32 last year and the year before. The Detroit News says the Pistons went 54-28 this year. This makes for an overall record of 154-92, not 153-91 over the past three years. The 74 wins and 90 losses from the previous years check out though.)

Comparing the last three years to the previous two, the Pistons have twice the victories with the same number of losses. Sounds like an algebra problem. Too bad they didn't go 82-82 in 2000-2002 and 164-82 in 2002-4.