what year did detroit pistons win nba championships?
1990 NBA Finals 2004 NBA Finals 1989 NBA Finals
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 In February 1966 , the governors met and awarded franchises to Los Angeles , Minnesota , Philadelphia , Pittsburgh , San Francisco and St. Louis . The league rejected bids from Baltimore , Buffalo and Vancouver . The six winning bids each paid $ 2 million for their franchises . St. Louis was awarded a franchise with no bid received . The league 's decision to grant a franchise was contingent on a potential owner stepping forward - a decision influenced by the Norris and Wirtz families , who owned the St. Louis Arena . 

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 The following year , the Lakers and three other NBL franchises jumped to the fledgling Basketball Association of America . Mikan led his new league in scoring , and again set a single @-@ season scoring record . The Lakers defeated the Washington Capitols in the 1949 BAA Finals . 

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 After the previous lockout , which shortened the 1998 – 99 season from 82 to 50 games , a six @-@ year deal between the owners , led by commissioner David Stern , and the players , led by director Billy Hunter and president Patrick Ewing of the labor union National Basketball Players Association ( NBPA ) , was reached . As the CBA was set to expire on June 30 , 2005 , the two sides began to negotiate in early 2005 . There were several issues obstructing the new agreement , which included adding an age limit for rookies , toughening the existing drug @-@ testing program and limiting the length of long @-@ term contracts . However , negotiations went smoothly and the two sides were able to reach a deal in June 2005 , avoiding the lockout . That deal guaranteed players 57 percent of basketball @-@ related income ( BRI ) and lasted for six years , until June 30 , 2011 . A year after signing the deal , eight owners signed a petition requesting Stern address the disparity between small @-@ market and large @-@ market teams . They wrote that " the hard truth is that our current economic system works only for larger @-@ market teams and a few teams that have extraordinary success ... The rest of us are looking at significant and unacceptable annual financial losses . " 

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 The city has been home to other professional sports franchises , including the National Basketball Association 's Fort Wayne Pistons ( which moved to Detroit , Michigan in 1957 ) , the Fort Wayne Daisies of the All @-@ American Girls Professional Baseball League , and the Fort Wayne Kekiongas of the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players ( precursor to Major League Baseball ) . 

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 By the 1997 – 98 season , 57 percent of basketball @-@ related income was used to pay players , while the previous deal called for a 48 percent split . According to the NBA , 15 of the 29 teams posted losses that season . The NBPA disputed this figure and claimed that only four teams had losses . The league 's owners voted on whether to reopen the CBA on March 23 , 1998 , and the vote passed by a 27 – 2 margin . Negotiations between the NBPA and owners started on April 1 , and nine further bargaining sessions took place in the next three months . 
