NBA CONNECTION Volume 11...the D...MOTOR City....Home of the Car Makers....MOTOWN...arguably a Top 3 in NBA Hoopers in the US..DETROIT, Michigan

People in the D...the Motor City...Deeeeeeetroit BASKETBALL are probably wondering when is the BLUEDUDE going to PUT ON for my City.

Welcome my Detroit Players and home to the Automakers, the Detroit Lions, Ford Field, the Tigers, Hockey Town USA...the Redwings, and of course Detroit Swat.

The Talent Pool in this City and surrounding suburbs is 2nd to none and you wonder why SPARTY and the MAIZE and BLUE are always loaded with Players from the D...now your about to find out. You will find no better City in the US than the D when it comes to Squeezing the Orange.

The Bad Boy Pistons were the epitome of a hardworking blue-collar city like the Clipse.....GRINDING. Speaking of Music home of MOTOWN and Eminem aka EM of 10 Mics out of 5 Mics and Kid Rock.

Some of the most dominant High School Hoop Programs in the D:

Detroit Southwestern HS
Detroit Henry Ford HS
Detroit Renaissance HS
Detroit Northern HS
Detroit Pershing HS
Detroit Country Day School
Detroit St. Martin De Porres HS
Detroit Northern HS
Detroit Cooley HS

Some the Big Time players out of the Motor City in the last 20 or so years.....

BJ Armstrong Birmingham MI Brother Rice Iowa Chicago Bulls...currently Derrick Rose's Agent

Steve Smith Detroit Pershing HS (Sparty) Miami Heat...NBA TV Analyst

Willie Burton Detroit St Martin De Porres HS (Minnesota) Heat

Derrick Coleman Detroit Northern HS Syracuse...NJ Nets

Detroit Southwestern HS....the 1991 National HS Champs with Jalen Rose (Maize & Blue) Nuggets current ESPN NBA Analyst, Vashon Leonard (Minnesota) Heat, Howard Eisley (Boston College) Jazz

Chris Webber (Birmingham MI) Detroit Country Day HS (Maize & Blue) Warriors TNT and NBA TV Analyst

Shane Battier (Birmingham MI) Detroit Country Day School (Duke) Grizzlies current NBA Player on Heat

Joe Crawford Detroit Renaissance HS (Kentucky) Lakers

Malik Hairston Detroit Renaissance HS (Oregon) Suns

Chris Douglas-Roberts Detroit Cass Tech (Memphis) Nets

Willie Green Detroit Cooley HS (Detroit-Mercy) Supersonics

Maurice Taylor Detroit Henry Ford HS (Maize & Blue) Clippers

the late Robert Traylor Detroit Murray-Wright HS (Maize & Blue) Bucks

This list isn't even counting the other Cities in Michigan like Flint, Lansing, and Saginaw which is loaded with the likes of Magic, Mark Macon, J-Rich, and Glen Rice among others....

The D is about Hoops and nothing else as the plethora talent speaks for itself and you just thought it was about Motown and Automakers....my Detroit Players