Haven’t posted a blog here in a long time, but no worries, because I’ll get back to posting here again at least twice a week.

The 2007/08 Season officially starts in 32 days, but for the curious NBA fan, it starts even sooner than that. The NBA pre-season starts in about a week with Boston hosting the Raptors on the 6th of October. This year the NBA is doing something different; because the international game has gotten competitive, the NBA has made efforts to open up to the world and make basketball an international game. There’s going to be a portion of the pre-season that deals with the European teams, and starting 17th, the NBA moves to China for a few weeks.

Now to the important stuff, the Detroit Pistons.

• The Pistons are commemorating this season for a reason – if you didn’t know, this is year 50 for the Pistons as an organization. They are actually going to be putting in this big logo that says “50 SEASONS” in a big old school red, white and blue Pistons logo.
• The Pistons will also be sporting new jerseys – we don’t know what they’ll be looking like yet…but I would guess it’s going to be some throwback jersey from the past.
• Because of this 50 Seasons thing, the Pistons are starting up a huge marketing campaign that involves a lot of cool things for Piston fans. I thought they already did a lot of things for the fans, but there’s going to be even more.
• Check out the new look www.Pistons.com. It looks good – better than the old design.
• If you’re in the area, the Pistons will have an open practice at the Oakland University Campus in the Athletic Center. (October 4th, 6:30pm – 8:30pm) I’m going to try to go.
• Amir Johnson, Jason Maxiel, Rodney Stuckey, and Afflalo. How can you not be excited to see these guys play? I’m especially excited to see Maxiel play with a substantial amount of minutes.
• Antonio McDyess will be starting this year – most likely, he’ll be splitting starter minutes with Maxiel. Sounds good to me.
• “Scoreliss Williamson” has retired and is going to coaching…hmmm. I can’t really see him as a coach.
• The Pistons have a lot of competition this year – especially with the new look Boston Celtics. I don’t see them being better than the Pistons, but they’re going to challenge us along with the Bulls, the Cavaliers, the Heat, and even the Wizards.
• My outlook on the season is positive – we’re still as good, or better than we were last season, except we now have some pretty talented rookies, and some great 2nd and 3rd year players. I don’t think we’ll be a number 1 seed, but we’ll still be up their for the East.

Well, there isn’t much else to blog about right now – but the season is coming – and there will be plenty to say than. Thanks to chose who checked in.