PISTONS' BAD GUY IMAGE CLOAKS A TALENTED TEAM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/sports/1989/04/15/pistons-bad-guy-image-cloaks-a-talented-team/76ce57e7-d048-49b2-b138-4212f78708bb/ By Anthony Cotton April 15, 1989 Although their reputation for rough stuff may qualify them as the NBA's version of the Los Angeles Raiders , Dennis Rodman and his Detroit Pistons teammates and coaches don't consider themselves bad boys. Neither, perhaps surprisingly, does Washington Bullets Coach Wes Unseld. "They're just selling tickets and videos with that stuff; they really aren't that tough," said Unseld, whose team plays in Detroit Sunday. " Rick Mahorn, Bill Laimbeer, Dennis Rodman -- you could tell any of them to go ahead and take a shot and slap you and I'm not sure that they would. But I bet you wouldn't do that with Charles Barkley or Karl Malone or Buck Williams. Now those guys might really be bad ." Cleveland Cavaliers guard Mark Price, knocked unconscious by a Mahorn elbow earlier this s