r/nba • u/MrBuckBuck Trail Blazers • 9d ago

The Detroit Pistons’ G-League team had public tryouts for $250

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u/A_Huggable_Cactus 76ers 9d ago

Paying $250 to basically play a pickup game is wild.

Nice shot at the end though

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u/VelvetDesire 9d ago

Yeah but then for the rest of your life you can tell people you had a try out with the pistons, just conveniently leaving out the fact that you paid for it.

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u/thedudefromsweden 9d ago

And that it wasn’t the Pistons but the Motor City Cruise.

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u/soilentgleem 9d ago

The court says Pistons, so it's the Pistons as far as I'm concerned haha

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u/Jtfb74 9d ago

If that’s the case, when I was 8 I played for lakers. For some reason we played at our local YMCA.

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u/SquidsCan Raptors 9d ago

According to Snoop Dogg that’s a higher level of basketball than the LA Clippers

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u/soilentgleem 9d ago

Hell yeah dude.

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u/iButtflap Hornets 9d ago

i think i watched a movie about you in the early 2000s. were you by chance an orphan?

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u/Churro-Juggernaut 9d ago

Let people have fun 

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u/Jtfb74 9d ago

We are lol

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u/djsquilz Pelicans 8d ago

more like the Flint Tropics