Detroit Sports Podcast

Detroit Sports Podcast - 2 Bad HombresOn this week's episode, Vito and Doc are joined by former Detroit Mercy men's basketball star and former longtime NBA big man Earl "The Twirl" Cureton. Cureton, a two-time NBA champion and current Detroit Pistons community ambassador, joins the podcast to discuss how his basketball career started, his college hoops career at Robert Morris and later Detroit Mercy, being recruited by Dick Vitale, playing on the 1982-83 Philadelphia 76ers NBA championship squad with "Dr. J" Julius Erving and Moses Malone, similarities and differences between winning with the 76ers and the 1993-94 Houston Rockets, playing with the Pistons for three seasons, serving as an assistant coach in the WNBA and ABA, being a part of former Pistons "Bad Boy" Rick Mahorn's coaching staff with the 2009 Detroit Shock, coaching Dennis Rodman while with the ABA's Long Beach Jam and guiding the Jam to a title as the squad's head man, dunking on Patrick Ewing, the best player he ever played alongside and much