Detroit Pistons

American professional basketball team
Organization basketball_team Q169661
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Summary

Detroit Pistons is a basketball team[1]. It ranks in the top 0.22% of basketball team entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (10,707 views/month, #4 of 1,798).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: United States[3]
  • Home venue: Little Caesars Arena[4]
  • League or competition: National Basketball Association[5]
  • Named after: piston[6]
  • Headquarters location: Detroit[7]
  • Head coach: J. B. Bickerstaff[8]
  • Part of: Central Division[9]
  • Commons category: Detroit Pistons[10]
  • Inception: 1941[11], 1937[12]
  • Sport: basketball[13]
  • Official website: http://www.nba.com/pistons/[14]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Detroit Pistons[15]
  • Topic has template: Q25867290[16]
  • Category for members of a team: Category:Detroit Pistons players[17]
  • Social media followers: 974,840[18], 951,341[19], 1,038,095[20], 1,112,840[21]

Why It Matters

Detroit Pistons has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] It is known by 59 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . perigon.io. perigon.io. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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