In 2006, in the Eastern Conference Finals, the Pistons were eliminated by the Heat team with a score of 2:4, and the Heat got two big men, Dwyane Wade and Shaquille O'Neal both had a good performance, but Pistons head coach Philip Sanders did not mention Wade's excellent play, and questioned O'Neal's play, that is, the Pistons' interior defense, at that time, O'Neal was about to be 34 years old, and he was still able to turn over the river and sea on the Pistons' interior line when he was about to retire. This made Sanders very unhappy, and of course, Sanders's arrow pointed directly at the team's interior defensive man, Ben Wallace.

If you think about who Big Ben is, a four-time Defensive Player of the Year, who has been in the Defensive Team for five consecutive years before that, you can say that he can't attack, but on the defensive end you say he can't do it, that's just an insult! Big Ben looks rough-looking, but he is actually a very delicate person in his heart, since Sanders took over the Pistons, Big Ben's tactical status has plummeted, all of which are in Big Ben's heart, and his dissatisfaction with Sanders is also in the world.

In addition, after the end of this season, Big Ben's contract will end, and the Pistons can offer a maximum of 4 years and $50 million on a contract, but this offer can be made by any team in the league for a higher price than this price.

Wallace's family was very poor when he was a child, her mother had a total of eleven children, Wallace was the tenth, how poor is it, let's put it this way, their family is the town where they are, the last family with electricity, in 1996, Wallace was full of ambition to participate in the 1996 draft, but unfortunately lost, during that time he could only play abroad and earn some money in the minor league, Wallace's Bole is Oakley, one is Unseld, Oakley discovered Big Ben's basketball talent, and Unselde gave him a direction when Big Ben was most trapped - a short contract worth two years with a total value of only $600,000, and a two-year contract extension was only two years and $1.7 million, and then Dumas thought that Big Ben was a malleable talent, and dug out Big Ben from the Magic team and gave him a four-year $20 million contract, and later, after winning the championship in 2003, Big Ben successfully renewed a two-year $14.5 million contract, as for why it has always been a short contract, It's all because of Big Ben's agent Steve Kaufman, in order to be able to get more commissions, he constantly encouraged Big Ben to sign a short contract with a copy, and this year, Big Ben's contract expired, and the 32-year-old Big Ben knew that this was his last chance to fight for a big contract, so he fired Kaufman and was bent on getting a big contract.

With two things in mind, Big Ben chose the Bulls' four-year, $60 million.

With the Pistons Five Tigers, Big Ben became the first to leave.

Big Ben's departure, for both sides can be said to be a lose-lose, after leaving the Pistons, Big Ben's state plummeted, since 2007 barely into the best defensive 2 team, no more honors, he at the time in the eyes of the world super big contract has become the team's salary burden, every time in the selection of the worst contract in history, the top five, there will always be a position of Big Ben, and the Pistons team after Big Ben left, the foundation of the defense began to shake, and then the Pistons deteriorated, until rebuilding.

On July 19, 2006, in order to fill the vacancy of Big Ben's departure, the Pistons captured strong reinforcements in the free market, and signed big center Nazr Mohammed for 5 years and 32 million, Muhammad is 208 cm tall and weighs 100 kilograms, and is also a mediocre qualified, strong, and gun-blocked meat shield center, compared with Big Ben, Muhammad's offensive end is half a pound and half a pound with Big Ben, and the defense and rebounding bucket have dropped more than one notch, with a career of 18 years, Never before has he averaged more than double digits in points or rebounds per game in a season, and it's clear that Mohammed is a quality role player who can't take on big responsibilities. He played in 51 games this season, 33 of them starts, and averaged 5.6 points and 4.5 rebounds in 15 minutes per game.

In Big Ben's absence, the second-year Jason Markhill got a lot of opportunities to perform, Markhill is similar to Mohammed, both are rough guys, this season a total of 67 games, 8 starts, and an average of 14.1 minutes per game can contribute 5 points and 2.8 rebounds.

The sublimation of the team's interior line was in January 2007, when the 76ers bought out Chris Webber's contract, when Webber was on a two-year contract worth a total of $38 million, but Webber has been on and off due to injury, and the 76ers, who are in the rebuilding period, have no intention of keeping Webber and chose to buy out his contract, after which Webber joined the Detroit Pistons with a base salary.

Webber is a well-rounded offensive and defensive interior monster, different from the traditional rough man in the United States, Webber has delicate hands, and is extremely talented, 25+10 at his peak is commonplace, but Webb, who came to the Pistons, is already 34 years old, and can only average 11.3 points and 6.7 rebounds per game this season,

This season, Hamilton is still the team's steady scoring point, averaging 19.8 points, 3.8 rebounds and 3.8 assists per game, December 27, 2006 This day Hamilton's career highest, this game Pistons and Knicks fought three overtime games, and finally lost, Hamilton played a game-high 55 minutes in this game, shooting 19 of 37, shooting a career-high 51 points to amaze the whole game. This outstanding performance also made Hamilton enter the NBA All-Star field for two consecutive years.

Billups is like a fish in water in the Sanders system, averaging 17.0 points and 7.2 assists per game, and has been selected to the All-Star Game for two consecutive years with Hamilton, Prince has been a full-time player for four consecutive seasons, averaging 14.3 points, 5.2 rebounds and 2.8 assists per game, and has been selected to the All-Defensive Team for three consecutive seasons, Rasheed Wallace is averaging 12.3 points and 7.2 rebounds per game.

The departure of the big local has left a vacancy in the Pistons' interior line, Sanders is not a coach who is good at defense, although the team has a better offense, but in that era, the playoffs needed bayonets to fight the playoffs, and the Pistons suffered a big loss for this.

The Pistons are 53-29 this season, without a big book, although Webb came, but the team's record inevitably declined, compared to last season, the team lost 11 wins, and more fatally, in the East, where the overall strength is generally declining, the Cleveland Cavaliers have risen to prominence under the leadership of the league's rising star LeBron James, 50-32 all season, only second in second place with the Pistons.

The Pistons' first opponent in the first round was the Orlando Magic, and the Magic at that time planned to build a two-tower lineup, with three-pole muskets lined up on the outside, in the twin towers, one of which was Dwight Howard in the third grade, and the other tower was the Pistons' abandoned Darko Milicic, who left the Pistons, Milicic quickly gained a foothold in the Pistons, playing 80 games in the regular season this season, including 16 starts, averaging 7.2 points, 6.1 rebounds and 1.8 blocks in 24 minutes per game.

In the first game, Hamilton and Billups military grabbed 22 points, Tianzun, Webb and Prince also scored double-doubles, while Magic Turkoglou scored 17 points, although Howard is still the top on defense, but he has not yet evolved on the offensive end, scoring 13 points and 19 rebounds, Milicic scored 14 points on 5-of-6 shooting inside, although the Pistons won, but the Magic team has more rebounds, 39:33 Pistons.

In the second game, the two teams played extremely close, in the first half, relying on the excellent play of Prince and Tianzun, the Pistons took a slight lead of 47:44, and in the third quarter, the Magic's offense suddenly fell out of balance, and the Pistons took the opportunity to play a 24-15 offensive offensive to pull the score away in one fell swoop, but in the final fourth quarter, the Magic team launched a crazy pursuit, the most critical of which was Milicic, the genius star called the "victory cigar" by the Pistons, turned over the river on the Pistons' interior line, and scored 10 points in 5 of 6 shots in a single quarter, But in the last three minutes of the game, Tianzun made a key three-pointer to stretch the score to 10 points and ensure the victory of the game.

In the third game, the Magic was defeated, losing to the Pistons with a score of 77:93, and they all thought that the Magic mentality in the last game of the 0:3 backward would collapse, but no one could have imagined that the Magic in the last game was extremely resilient, in the last four minutes of the game, Milicic hit two goals inside to help the Magic take a 3-point lead, and at the critical moment, it was a three-point shot from Tianzun to save the Pistons, and then Webb became the hero, hitting 2 points in the middle of the shot and then stealing the latter in the single defense Howard, and then assisting Hamilton to make a layup and score 2 points, Hamilton steals Grant Hill again and assists Billups for two points on a long-distance run, and then Hamilton and Billups make solid free throws at the end to give the Pistons a narrow 97-93 win over the Magic, and sweep the Magic 4-0 to advance.

The whole series, although it seems that the Pistons swept the Magic 4:0, but in fact, except for the third game, the other games were extremely hard, Howard and Milicic are problems that the Pistons have been unable to solve, the two of them turned over the river on the inside of the Pistons, averaging 15.3 points, 14.8 rebounds, 1.8 assists and 1 block per game in the front game, and the shooting rate was as high as 54.8%, The latter averaged only 28.5 minutes per game, averaging 12.3 points, 4.5 rebounds, 1 assist and 1 block per game, and shooting 58.8% from the field. It is worth mentioning that in this round of the series, the two teams played a total of 22 players, and now 21 of them have retired, but there is one who is still playing, he is Trevor Ariza, who was a third-year player that year, Ariza was an important substitute for the team in the regular season, but in the playoffs, he was too young and did not gain the trust of coach Brian Hill, and only played an average of 11 minutes per game. With a 2.8 points, Ariza is also a veteran in the league for 14 seasons.

The Pistons met an old acquaintance in the second round, the Chicago Bulls, an old acquaintance, naturally the big Ben who switched to the Bulls last summer, Big Ben performed well in the first round of the playoffs, averaging 9.3 points, 9.8 rebounds, 1.8 assists, 1.5 steals and 1.5 blocks per game, and is still the all-round warrior who can do anything, and it is the team's internal guarantee, helping the Bulls sweep the Miami-Heat with O'Neal 4:0, just in time to meet the Pistons.

When the two teams meet, they are very red-eyed, whether Sanders is right, or Big Ben is right, we have to see in this round of the series, Big Ben is also the first time in the playoffs to meet the brother he used to fight together, this time, the opponent opposite him, has become a good brother who has been fighting side by side with him for three years, Rashid Wallace, this time, how will Big Ben play, and how will Tianzun respond?