The Pistons' Bad Boys Era Comes to a Close, the Gang Walks Out on Chicago (1991)

Punk move. Shows you who they really are. Beaten fair and square and they tramp off like pouty little cowards

Jordan don't play that. He took there beatings for years and always there to shake hands. He may have complained in the press but he kept driving to the hoops and taking their punishments. That's called courage and class. Isiah, Laimbeer and them had no class and Isiah paid for that with the Dream Team ignoring him and Laimbeer although so said was a good coach in the WNBA, never got a shot in the NBA!

lebron walking off on a nighlty basis😂

Simple shake hand, just a simple shake hand. Huge consequences. Dumars and Salley: dumars forever respected and recognized by the Goat MJ as the best ever guy to defend him. And salley got a free ring.... Isiah, left out of the dream team and forever the villain to MJ and laimbeer forever remembered for his dirty plays more than his contributions on the two champtionship... just a simple shake hand, even if not sincere, wouldve changed the narratives on them.

F Isaiah Thomas, and anybody that like or love that . Puss#

And Isiah wonders why....lol

Fact Check: Has any team across ANY sport in the last 100 years shown less class and less sportsmanship than this event by the Pistons?

The Bad Boys' loss was extremely terrible. They were aiming for the three-peat and anticipated defeating the Bulls. Even until now, thomas and laimbeer have not fully recovered from this nightmare loss.

Imagine if Pistons won this game and won the champ to make it a 3peat, Rodman will always be in that Goat conversation with 2 3peats on his resume

So they raged quit

Jordan bashed them publicly. I would have walked off too

This cost Isaiah to not be on the dream team

The Pistons were like the mischievous kid that if you didn't watch him, they would take fire crackers and light them under your feet and then when you turn back around they would act all innocent. The Pistons were the ones that would hack you in the paint and put you on the ground and then act all it wasn't me in front of the referees and feign innocence. The Pistons job was to get in your head and frustrate you so much that you would lose your cool and make mistakes. So when the Bulls finally were able to become mentally tough enough to not fall for that BS the Pistons were pullling, the Pistons were done as the team of the late 80's. When MJ trusted Phil, the triangle offense, and his teammates, the Pistons were finished and they were when they got swept by the Bulls in the 1991 Eastern Conference finals.

Funny - …..all these years later, this is sort of how the baby boomers are behaving right now as Gen X ascends. 😊

Then the bulls dominated...the 90's...a decade of mediocrity. I mean who did they dominate...the worn out old Lakers? The Blazers?
The greatest decade, the 80's...long gone...

Classy all the way to the end. Hey fitting in to the Bad Boy era.

LeBron's biggest inspiration

can someone explain to me, why everyone gets so worked up with the pistons over this? They were rivals

Too bad the Dream team was not thought of at that time, or Isiah would have rethought his actions.

And Isaiah Thomas wonders why he wasn’t chosen for the Olympic team.

The Thugs have left the building.

at least bill who i hate has kept the same energy about this unlike zeke who has gone back n forth about this yea it was wrong!!! uhh buttt boston did it!!! but maybe if i could do over? man zeke just stop be a man and own it!!!!!

The reason why Isaiah Thomas is the number 1 hater of MJ up to this time...

Isiah Thomas is a SORE LOSER!!!

Thomas consequence for that is not being on the dream team. Now he is a bitter old man.

I thought it was great funny, good for U pistons

Such mean girls you commenters are: you know, follow a leader types like middle school girls. Previous teams did the same; in fact Boston did it to Detroit two years prior, but Isiah nor the Piston's cried about it because it was okay. MJ cried, the media was in his pocket and you guys/gals are in on it as mean girls. Today's Americans are soft.

Isaiah always saying who the Bulls didn’t beat but they beat him, defending NBA champs 4 - 0

So glad that bum Isaih Thomas was left off the Dream Team for these stupid antics.

For those saying the Celtics did the same to the Pistons - that was because the fans used to raid the court after the game. The Celts left early for safety reasons not for unsportsmanlike conduct.

Didnt the Lakers walk off when they lost lmao y'all clowns only talking ish because Jordan said something if Jordan didn't care y'all wouldn't care...lol grown ass jock riders lol

Bad Boys ' loved them at the time, but not shaking hands..sorry just bad sportsmanship.

They lost like bitches. Kudos to Salley for being a man though.

Isiah trying to creep through the bulls sidelines.

Lambeer was and will always be the biggest a$$ in the nba

Counterfeit Bill (as then Celtics HOF announcer Johnny Most used to call him) being a sore loser for 30 years +. 😂

Isah never had class and that proved it. He is such a loser

The last act of defiance

The Bulls wanted only one thing at that time - to beat the Pistons...

I have so much respect for the pistons. These teams hated each other, at least the pistons losing with pride.

Is this is why I will FOREVER have the upmost "DISDAIN" for the Detroit Pistons!!! Shout out to Salley, Dumars, and Vinnie Johnson for keeping it 💯!!!!

No place on any olympic squad for anyone who loses like this.

Isiah missed out on two Olympics (1980 selection b/c the US boycotted due to Russia invading Afghanistan, and 1992 due to Jordan holding a grudge about this game).

History matters. The nba still years later owe this team and Zeke, honesty and fairness, but they are still pushing Jordan's narrative. I know it wasn't this bulls team, but i was alive, how many people ever talk about how the pistons were hated and both the Lakers and Celtics before this, refused to shake pistons hands after losses. It's forgotten. Zeke is an alltime great. He was wrong, but it was kinda expected in this era, they took it personal like Jordan always is allowed to. Move on. Zeke is a great dude and a tough competitor and one of, if not the best pg ever

They gave up with four minutes remaining? Lol.

Isiaha complains about not being on the Dream Team. His game certainly deserved it but he was the captain of cerain players like Lambier that didn't just play hard basketball but tried to injure players. These players were all on the Dream Team. He would have ruined the chemistry

What REALLY sucks is that this wouldn’t even be a discussion If MJ wasn’t on the bulls. It was a classless act but holding onto this Is bitter. Isiah apologized about It and MJ is the one that still holds It against him and everyone else In the comments follows after MJ. No one would care about this moment If MJ wasn’t on the bulls.

Weak, they should have came back stronger the next year to beat the bulls but they chose to cry about it