r/DetroitPistons • u/Mike_Laundry Fort Wayne Pistons • 2d ago
Image Collecting the 04 Pistons Champion jerseys from their former teams.
The Bullets jersey works for Sheed and Ben because they both wore #30 in Washington. In back to back years actually. Just learned a Darvin Ham Bucks jersey exists as does Elden Campbell and Lindsay Hunter but I got all the big ones.(Prince wasn't around in the Champion era)
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u/airmax7 2d ago
That Celtics Chauncey Billups jersey is rare, amazing find
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u/Mike_Laundry Fort Wayne Pistons 2d ago
I was super excited to find one. Had to settle for a size 48(usually wear 44) but you just never see them.
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u/GoLionsJD107 Chauncey Billups 2d ago
Good excuse to eat Little Caesers pizza all summer to help increase the Tigers payroll for this season.
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u/ShippingNotIncluded Ausar Thompson 2d ago
The Sheed Bullets jersey is tough
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u/Mike_Laundry Fort Wayne Pistons 2d ago
It took me forever to find one. Love that it's technically also a Ben Wallace jersey.
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u/TheMittenSports Ben Wallace 2d ago
This is cool. Neat idea.
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u/Mike_Laundry Fort Wayne Pistons 2d ago
Started with a mission to collect a jersey from every team when Champion made jerseys. I got to teams i didn't like(like the Celtics) and had a hard time picking a player to go for so I started getting former Pistons so I would actually rock them. One of my recent posts has my whole collection so far. Up to 30 jerseys only missing Lakers,Clippers,Warriors,Spurs,Cavs,Knicks,and Nets. Think I'm gonna do Rodman for Lakers and Alan Houston for Knicks to keep the theme going.
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u/TheMittenSports Ben Wallace 2d ago
Rodman Lakers or Mavericks jersey would be dope. I’ll have to check out the whole collection.
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u/itssosalty Dennis Rodman 2d ago
Williamson is a big one?
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u/Mike_Laundry Fort Wayne Pistons 2d ago edited 2d ago
He was a 6th man of the year in 02. Played really well in the finals against the Lakers. I get what you mean though. I love that jersey people always think it's Webber.
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u/itssosalty Dennis Rodman 2d ago
I loved him. Honestly the best post player we had. Even better than Sheed. Sheed could really take over the post game when motivated. But you could always tell he didn’t want to do it a lot.
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u/macksjax Bulls 2d ago
I started my champion collection the same way. I just wanted one from each team. That was like 400 jerseys ago. I have the illness
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u/Mike_Laundry Fort Wayne Pistons 2d ago
Definitely a gotta catch em all aspect to it. I wish Champion was able to make NBA jerseys again they were the best.
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u/mburns223 Cade Cunningham 1d ago
How did you find these jerseys? Like eBay?
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u/Mike_Laundry Fort Wayne Pistons 1d ago
Most of them Ebay. The Jordan, Olajuwon and Hardaway are from when I was a kid.
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u/HeynongManA2 2d ago
Best of luck on the Memphis Tayshaun
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u/Mike_Laundry Fort Wayne Pistons 2d ago
Champion never made a Tayshaun Prince jersey he'll have to be left out. Might be able to find a blank and make a custom one some day probably would do a Vancouver Throwback just to keep with the theme.
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u/Ok_Log_5134 Ben Wallace 2d ago
I picked this up when living in Atlanta.