Do you think Detroit will retire Grant Hill's jersey?

TheBomb81 · Post #1 » by **TheBomb81** » Sun Feb 23, 2014 6:40 am

Grant Hill was such a beast for the Pistons before the injuries.Its just a shame his career went the wrong route due to injuries.

ImHeisenberg · Post #2 » by **ImHeisenberg** » Sun Feb 23, 2014 6:54 am

Tough to say. Outside of putting up some monster stat lines, he didn't accomplish much in Detroit beyond his individual accolades.

I'd lean towards no.

coolness · Post #3 » by **coolness** » Sun Feb 23, 2014 7:06 am

6 years of awesome. And it's the Pistons fault that his career was ruined. His last year here was amazing. His shooting got better and better as the season went on. He was clearly a superstar and had Jordanesque stats during the middle of that season. Then he played through injuries that he shouldn't have played through to end the season. The organization could've made him sit and didn't. He still probably would've left, because his wife had a lot to do with the decision, but he made us a playoff team when the rest of the roster was poverty level. His jersey should be up there.

TheBomb81 · Post #4 » by **TheBomb81** » Sun Feb 23, 2014 7:10 am

coolness wrote:6 years of awesome. And it's the Pistons fault that his career was ruined. His last year here was amazing. His shooting got better and better as the season went on. He was clearly a superstar and had Jordanesque stats during the middle of that season. Then he played through injuries that he shouldn't have played through to end the season. The organization could've made him sit and didn't. He still probably would've left, because his wife had a lot to do with the decision, but he made us a playoff team when the rest of the roster was poverty level. His jersey should be up there.

I Agree.His jersey should be up there for Detroit and the Pistons did ruin his career,its just a shame because he could of had a great career.

Phenomenonsense · Post #5 » by **Phenomenonsense** » Sun Feb 23, 2014 7:53 am

Nope.

King Bugs · Post #6 » by **King Bugs** » Sun Feb 23, 2014 10:16 am

Going with no. Grant's best contribution to this franchise was leaving and getting us Ben Wallace in that sign and trade.

Now that's the guy who needs his jersey retired. I can't wait until Stuckey gets out of here so we can finally put #3 into the rafters where it belongs.

tru2dagame · Post #7 » by **tru2dagame** » Sun Feb 23, 2014 1:03 pm

imagump1313 · Post #8 » by **imagump1313** » Sun Feb 23, 2014 3:30 pm

Definitely no. Just because he helped them get to the playoffs doesn't mean jersey retirement I'm afraid. With that logic there would be no numbers left to use.

gusman · Post #9 » by **gusman** » Sun Feb 23, 2014 3:42 pm

He left us. Screw him!

Uncle Mxy · Post #10 » by **Uncle Mxy** » Sun Feb 23, 2014 4:59 pm

Rodman played 7 seasons and only started about half the games.
He wasn't a big factor in our Finals wins.
But when his name was tapped by the HOF, we put Rodman in.
I suspect it'll go down similarly for Grant Hill.

haulerch · Post #11 » by **haulerch** » Sun Feb 23, 2014 5:24 pm

I would say no, I also didn't think Worm deserved it...

Next retired should be Ben followed by Billups.

Post #12 » by **dVs33** » Sun Feb 23, 2014 11:44 pm

As much as i love Grant Hill, I'd be very surprised if his jersey is retired.

Bknight4three · Post #13 » by **Bknight4three** » Mon Feb 24, 2014 10:05 pm

Chauncey, Ben, Rip, Sheed, Tay all deserve it more than Hill. I think an argument can be made for each of those 5 before Rodman too.