Center bill laimbeer was a man of war he literally fought tooth and nail during his time with the detroit pistons and was the baddest of the.

Bill laimbeer detroit pistons bad boys. Detroit s bad boys made up of bill laimbeer dennis rodman and isiah thomas were always battling boston s big 3 of larry bird robert parish and kevin mchale in the eastern conference playoffs. Former detroit pistons bad boy bill laimbeer told espn s first take that lebron james not michael jordan is the greatest basketball player who has ever played the game. One of the vital main storylines of chicago in the end beating detroit in 1991 used to be isiah thomas invoice laimbeer and different pistons gamers strolling off the court docket in sport four with seven seconds final and didn t shake palms with opposing gamers. Laimbeer s reputation as one of the pistons bad boys was such that in 1991 he even came to endorse a video game for the super nintendo entertainment system called bill laimbeer s combat basketball a futuristic basketball game in which physical play is encouraged.

The bulls had to get past the detroit pistons and the bad boys to make the finals. Detroit pistons was a heated rivalry. On april 19 1990 an infamous fight between the philadelphia 76ers and the detroit bad boy pistons broke out during the game after isiah thomas got ejected. Instead his bad boys reputation is living on as laimbeer indicated he has no regrets for refusing to shake hands with the chicago bulls after laimbeer s detroit pistons were swept in the 1991.

Those meetings were intense and some of them got downright ugly. The feminization of bill laimbeer the former detroit pistons star is the same old bad boy.

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