The Detroit Pistons got their name Detroit Pistons because they were named after the owner of the Zollner Machine Works. Their home town was Detroit, so he named them The Detroit Pistons..
Detroit was originally a fort established by the French known as Fort Detroit. The name Detroit comes from the fact the river it was built next to was called " le détroit du Lac Érié", meaning the...
In 1932 James Norris purchased the Detroit Falcons (earlier named the Cougars after the folded WHL team whose players stocked the roster of the original Detroit team in 1927). Norris changed the...