Detroit Pistons Honor the Legendary St. Cecilia’s Gym With City Edition Uniforms
https://www.slamonline.com/the-magazine/st-cecilia-pistons-slam-241/ For this season’s City Edition uniforms, the Detroit Pistons are paying homage to St. Cecilia’s gym, a community staple whose history dates back over 50 years and that has seen some of the biggest names in the game play on its floor. “Anybody that was anybody passed through St. Cecilia’s,” says Earl “The Twirl” Cureton, a two-time NBA champion (1983, 1994) during his 12-year playing career. Cureton, who is now a community ambassador for the Pistons, grew up in Detroit and first hooped at St. Cecilia’s legendary gym (“The Saint”) in the mid-’70s. “It definitely was the proving ground,” he says. “That’s the place where you had to go play. If you didn’t come through there, then you weren’t real.” In the wake of the devastating 1967 Detroit Riots, Sam Washington—the athletic director at St. Cecilia’s—was determined to create a safe place for kids to play basketball. Washington opened up the doors to St. Cecilia’s gym, a