Hold on a minute, Iverson isn't the Pistons

Okay, I was disturbed while watching ESPN Sportscenter this morning. While running through the Piston's highlights of Wednesday night's game against the Raptors, they said a few things that just upset me. 

First off, the anchor started the highlights with Iverson being in Toronto, but not being able to play. That was fine, but when they then cut to Rodney Stuckey, and said "he is filling in nicely while Iverson can't play" was ridiculous!

Finally, at the end of the highlight, the lovely female anchor finished by saying "and the Pistons survive tonight's game without Iverson." Survive? They survive? Sounds like Iverson is now the team. 

Um...hello? The Pistons have been successful before Iverson got here. The Pistons were successful before A.I. arrived. This organization has never been built around one player, and that includes Billups or Iverson. 

It is a horrible depiction saying that they survived without Iverson. The Detroit Pistons have been the beast of the East for almost a decade. They have rotated in multiple point guards in that time, and no one, not even Allen "The Answer" Iverson is bigger than this team.

I sure hope when he starts playing on this team, the focus doesn't shift from "team basketball" to "superstar basketball." When the Pistons make it to their seventh straight Eastern Conference Finals, and then to the NBA Finals, it won't be because of Iverson, it will be because they played very well as a team and Dumars and Curry led them to victory.