In the sporting highs of the three weeks we spent in the city, you’d be forgiven for forgetting the fourth professional sports team in Detroit.

As the good times enveloped downtown, The Pistons looked enviously on from the sidelines.
October is meant to be their preseason, but as players and team owners clashed over revenue share and salary caps, what resulted was the Lockout – an indefinite postponement of the league that started on July 1^st and at time of print is still unresolved. During the Lockout, no team can trade, sign or even contact players. There’s talk of a mass player exodus overseas, though only a few have yet made he move.
Despite the uncertainly, the famed hard work ethic of the Piston’s players lives on. Ben Gordon and Charlie Villanueva invited us to join them for an afternoon training session at Ben Gordon’s home gym. Photographer John Balsom was on hand to capture it all.