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After the Detroit Pistons obliterated the Los Angeles Lakers to claim the National Basketball Association title last week in the sport's biggest upset in more than 25 years, the two masterminds behind the win, Pistons coach Larry Brown and general manager Joe Dumars, didn't get the chance to congratulate each other until the next morning. The night had been a blur of confetti, champagne blasts and Kid Rock music. Finally, at around 9 a.m., the two grabbed a moment alone in Dumars' office at the Pistons' arena, the Palace, in Auburn Hills, Mich. Both working on three hours...
...They didn't have all the superstars, but they had all the heart: in a one-sided series, the underdogs DETROIT PISTONS overran the storied Los Angeles Lakers to take their first NBA basketball championship in 14 years. The happiest man in the Motor City was Pistons owner Bill Davidson?whose Tampa Bay Lightning had won ice hockey's Stanley Cup a week earlier...
DIED. JAMES M. ROCHE, 97, former head of General Motors who guided the company through the turbulent 1960s; in Belleair, Fla. After starting his 44-year career at GM as a statistician, he got the top job in 1967 and helped steer the automaker toward better corporate citizenship as Detroit struggled in the aftermath of the 1968 riots. In 1971 he nominated to GM's board the Rev. Leon H. Sullivan, who became one of the first African Americans to serve on a major corporate board...
Bahadu, who hails from Detroit, Mich., is no stranger to balancing work and extracurriculars, having run the Dunster Grille, played in countless intramurals and served as Dunster House Committee (HoCo) co-chair in his four years at Harvard...
Bradford Kinsman, athletic director of the University of Detroit Mercy and another member of the committee that pushed for the NCAA tournament, says Wagoner displays unwavering dedication to the community...