Or are the people with the Detroit Pistons organization bad at counting? They claim this is the 50th year anniversary of the team in Detroit, but shouldn't this be the 51st? Maybe it's just me, but if count all the seasons from 57-08 it makes 51.
It's just you. '57 was the beginning of the season and ended in '58, so it's from 57-58. This year it's from 07-08. So 2008-1958 = 50.
Well, the Rockets say they've been in existence for 41 years and they've been playing since 1967-68, exactly ten after Detroit Pistons. 41+10+51
This is (or was, depends if you think the regular season is technically over) the 2007-2008 season. 2007-1957= 50 years You don't think that an organization ,especially a professional organization with literally hundreds of employees, like that will carelessly miscount something like this, do you? Granted its the home of the most r****ded PA announcer in the world, but still, ya know?
Its 51 years. 1998 to 2008 is 11 years not 10. Just because 2008-1998 = 10 does not mean that it is ten years. Count on your fingers if you have to. The same goes for 1957 through 2007. That is 51 years, not 50.
1998 to 2008 is 10 years. when youre counting on your fingers you dont count 1998 99,00,01,02,03,04,05,06,07,08 10 YEARS
Here, I will help... http://www.nba.com/pistons/history/alltime_season_rosters.html now.. Code: Season Start Season End 1 1957 1958 2 1958 1959 3 1959 1960 4 1960 1961 5 1961 1962 6 1962 1963 7 1963 1964 8 1964 1965 9 1965 1966 10 1966 1967 11 1967 1968 12 1968 1969 13 1969 1970 14 1970 1971 15 1971 1972 16 1972 1973 17 1973 1974 18 1974 1975 19 1975 1976 20 1976 1977 21 1977 1978 22 1978 1979 23 1979 1980 24 1980 1981 25 1981 1982 26 1982 1983 27 1983 1984 28 1984 1985 29 1985 1986 30 1986 1987 31 1987 1988 32 1988 1989 33 1989 1990 34 1990 1991 35 1991 1992 36 1992 1993 37 1993 1994 38 1994 1995 39 1995 1996 40 1996 1997 41 1997 1998 42 1998 1999 43 1999 2000 44 2000 2001 45 2001 2002 46 2002 2003 47 2003 2004 48 2004 2005 49 2005 2006 50 2006 2007
****, im not good at math lol but hey, it might just be 51 but like someone said it is detroit you know they are hood over there lol
To be perfectly honest, I think they mean its been 50 years, not that this is their 50th year. Why they would do it that way I can only imagine that they forgot to do it last year? Everything that I got from fan appreciation night had "50 years of history" on it. So maybe that's their mindset for it.
If the whole organization has NOBODY that could catch that ... well then they should hire someone from this board.
Their organization is correct. Hayesfan's chart shows the first line as 1, but that is not the same as anniversary. The 1st anniversary doesn't start until year 1 is over. In other words, label the first column as "Anniversary" and lower the values by one, and it all makes sense. The 50th anniversary of their existence started on the first game of THIS year (Nov 07).
There we go.. that makes sense.. so its not the 50th year of their team.. its the 50th Anniversary! Thank you. It was buggin. Now for UK we celebrated 100 Years of Basketball... which was different it celebrated the 100th season that the University fielded a team. (and probably why I was confused)
