In the 2008-2009 season, just two games at the beginning, the Detroit Pistons and the Denver Nuggets quickly completed a deal, and the Pistons sent Chauncey Billups and McDice to the Nuggets in exchange for the former MVP guard, Allen Iverson!

This deal shocked the whole league, the Pistons wanted to get through the embarrassing stage of the replacement of the old and the new, and successively got rid of the big contract players in the team, and the trade went Billups and also cleared the way for the Stard base to rise, and Iverson was in the Nuggets, and Carmelo Anthony was on the same team, both players were ranked in the top five players in the league in offensive firepower, and the future could have been expected, but the Nuggets' record was a round trip for five consecutive years, and I thought Iverson was a savior when he landed in Denver, but he didn't expect to be worse than the Pistons, and they were also seeking change, With both sides in mind, the deal was quickly struck.

Basketball factors aside, this deal deeply hurt Billups's heart, he became famous here, originally planned to wear a piston jersey until retirement, but he didn't expect to be swept away by the team when he was still at his peak, originally, Billups was to treat Dumas as his second father, but after this deal, the relationship between the two people was estranged, knowing that when Billups returned to Detroit, the relationship between the two was repaired.

This deal can be called a major turning point in the history of the Pistons, after Iverson came to the Pistons, he first made a fuss with Starkey to grab the jersey (both of them wore the No. 3 jersey, but in the Pistons Starkey said that he would not give up the No. 3 jersey for Iverson, thus forcing Iverson to wear the unfamiliar No. 1 jersey in the new season, and throughout his career, Iverson only wore the No. 3 jersey this season), after Iverson came to the Pistons, he did not integrate into the Pistons system, but missed many games due to injury, The efficiency is not very high, and it is necessary to play a substitute for Starkey! Later, he broke openly with the team's head coach Michael Curry, and left the team after the end of the season, and since then, the Pistons have quickly fallen from a strong team in the East to a playoff-level team, and after Billups came to the Nuggets, although he brought changes to the team, he was unable to lead the Nuggets through the first round.

McDyce, another Pistons player in this deal, negotiated a buyout contract with McDyce shortly after the trade, originally McDyce still had a two-year, $13.6 million contract, but the Nuggets said that the team already has Nene and Martin, as well as Anthony, they no longer have a place for McDyes, McDyce readily signed the buyout contract, the price is 2 years and $6 million, and then, McDyce chose to return to the Pistons and signed a 1-year, 1.9 million special contract. McDyce, who returned to the Pistons, is still conscientious, playing 62 games throughout the season, including 30 starts, averaging 9.6 points and 9.8 rebounds per game, shooting 51% from the field, and the overall performance is quite good.

In 2008, the Pistons signed last year's undrafted draft with a two-year, $1.5 million contract, guard Will Bynum, the later CBA legend who struggled with the Warriors for half a season last year, chose to play overseas in the NBA offseason, and his performance was not bad to arouse the interest of the Pistons, and signed him with a two-year salary, and waited for a few playing minutes behind Iverson, Hamilton, Starkey, and Afflalo this season. Bynum is one of the few players signed in the post-Dumas era who is still cost-effective, Bynum is stunned to play, doesn't care about anything, just snaps the ball, can contribute 7 points in 14 minutes per game, and the efficiency is good, but in other aspects, no one thought that such a role that looks similar to a temporary worker will have its own page of glory in the later stages of the Pistons.

In addition to Bynum, in order to increase the thickness of the interior line, the Pistons signed parallel goods champion Kwame Brown with a two-year, $8 million contract, this year's Brown is 26 years old, this year is the year of play, but unfortunately because the offensive level is too rough, the Pistons have not been reused in the past two years, averaging 4 points and 5 rebounds per game.

In the NBA, the team's record is poor, and the first person to come out to take the blame is undoubtedly the head coach, which has always been a "tradition" in the NBA, the Pistons have stopped the Eastern Conference Finals for six consecutive years and cannot go further, and head coach Philip Saunders has become the backstabber, and after the end of the season, Dumas put his old teammate Michael Curry in the position of head coach.

Michael Curry feels raw when he hears the name, but he is actually an old man of the Pistons, he once played for the Pistons in the 1995-1997 season and the 1999-2003 season, with a tough style of play, and was once the team's locker room leader and captain, but the career data performance is not outstanding, the career is 11 years, the highest role positioning is the sixth man, playing an average of 24 minutes per game, With a score of 6.6, Curry was a teammate with Dumas, as well as Billups, Hamilton and Prince, and Dumas was impressed by his leadership, so after Sanders left class, Dumas resolutely helped Curry to take over.

On November 9, 2008, Iverson officially debuted in Detroit, the opponent was the Celtics, and in the end, the Pistons, who won four consecutive games before the trade, were defeated by the Celtics on their home court, for the Detroit playing system, Iverson did not adapt, and the Pistons did not adapt, Iverson scored 10 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists on 4 of 11 shots, while Hamilton was a rare 8 shots all missed, only relying on free throws to get 3 points, this game, opened the Pistons' turbulent and bloody season this season.

In fact, the start of this season Pistons is still good, after losing the Celtics, winning the Kings, winning the Warriors, and also beating the Lakers who won eight consecutive games in the opening season, the following season, the Pistons' record is not very stable, but it is also the level of the playoffs, until the middle of the season, the contradictions completely broke out, and the Pistons want to correct Starkey, which means that one of Hamilton and Iverson must be substituted, and Iverson has publicly stated on various occasions that he will not be substituted, in this regard, Head coach Curry is worried about his head.

At the beginning of the season, Starkey and Iverson were arranged to start, Hamilton was substituted, but the effect was not good, Iverson's individual solo fight was incompatible with the Pistons' emphasis on the overall combat concept, Iverson and Starkey are both players who focus on individual offense, and other players are not supported at all, and Hamilton, as a Pistons veteran, was demoted to a bench to some extent to make Prince, Mark Hill, Afralo Amir Johnson and other old Pistons dissatisfied, so the Pistons' record from the third in the East at the beginning of the season, Fourth, he fell all the way to seventh and eighth, and saw that the playoffs could not be saved, so after a wave of eight consecutive losses in the middle and second half of the season, Curry quickly cut through the mess and arranged Starkey and Hamilton to start, with Iverson on the bench.

The game that changed was the eighth in the East for the Pistons, against the Magic who was third in the East, and the Pistons began to fall behind the Magic by a large score, and saw that they were going to GG again, but Iverson got off the court early because of a back injury, and the magic was that after Iverson got off the court, the Pistons immediately beat the Magic with a crazy offense, and after this game, Iverson missed two games due to injury, and what is even more amazing is that the Pistons won both games, and the opponents were the Celtics who were second in the East and the Nuggets who were third in the West,

Curry's arrangement completely angered Iverson, you must know that Iverson is only 33 years old this year, and he is far from the point where he can't play the ball in old age, the year before he came to the Pistons, Iverson could still average 26 points per game in the Nuggets, and Iverson's attitude towards people is very arrogant, let him bow his head to talk to Curry, talk to Dumas, it is absolutely impossible, so Iverson gave himself a summer vacation in advance on the grounds that his back injury has not healed, Dumas and Curry are old rivers and lakes in the league, they can still see the reason? Bitter persuasion failed, and Iverson had to be banned in the end.

In fact, there have been signs of this matter for a long time, Dumas wants to help Starki to the position, there must be one person between Hamilton and Iverson who will sacrifice the starting spot, Iverson insisted that he will never play as a substitute since he came to the Pistons, at this time the more tactful way is to package and trade to Iverson in exchange for a strong player, but Dumas took a tougher approach, that is, to completely block Iverson and completely exclude Iverson from the team's second half and playoff lists, which is a lose-lose approach.

The team lost a $20 million star player for no reason, and Iverson was a typical game-by-game substitute, and the year with the Pistons also became a turning point in his career, and after leaving the Pistons, Iverson's form plummeted.

This year's Pistons failed miserably, no one on the team won any individual honors, including being selected to the All-Star team after the All-Star season, no honors, Starkey averaged 14.2 points, 5.8 rebounds and 3.1 assists per game throughout the season, and the performance has improved rapidly from last season, but as the cornerstone of the team, this data is far from enough.

After the end of the regular season, the Pistons, who were able to win 59 games last season, only got 39 wins this season, barely reached the playoffs with the eighth place in the East, and in the first round, they were swept out by the Cavaliers 4-0, losing an average of 15.5 points per game. Starkey led the way in his first playoff game, averaging a team-high 15.0 points per game, but shooting 39.3 percent from the field, shooting eight three-pointers in four games and missing one......

Don't laugh at Starkey, because he can be said to be one of the best players on the team, in addition to Starkey, and then the old minister McDice worked hard to average 13 points and 8.5 rebounds per game, guarding the Pistons inside with his own body, and the other people's data is miserable, completely beaten into a sieve by the rising Cavaliers, Hamilton averaged 13.3 points per game, shooting 35.6%, Tianzun averaged 6.5 points per game, plus 36.7% shooting, the worst was Prince, In the matchup with James, he averaged 3.8 points per game plus 25.9% shooting......

It can be said that since the beginning of this year, the Pistons have completely withdrawn from the sequence of championship teams, and they are not even considered strong teams, with or without Billups, this is the gap.

Such a result is obviously not the kind of result that Dumas wants to see, and after the end of the season, head coach Curry is disgraced and John Kuster takes over.

Kuster studied under Larry Brown, and since 1997, he has followed Brown to fight in the north and south, and has served as an assistant coach for the Celtics, Philadelphia 76, New Jersey Nets, Orlando Magic, and Cleveland Cavaliers, and on July 7, 2009, Kuster officially signed a contract and took up his post.

The first round was actually eliminated by a big score, so that Dumas seemed to see the sunset before the sinking of the Detroit heavy ship, Dumas wanted to rebuild the Pistons 04 madness, at this time he was like a complete gambler, he pressed everything he had in the summer of 2009, so he spared no expense in the summer of this year, and introduced a number of heavyweights in a row, one of which was a former Pistons heavyweight - Ben Wallace.