No one felt like yelling, "Hail! Hail!" but the gang was all here as training camp began.

Although they lost their sacred cow status months ago, the Pistons' core group remains whole as they take one last shot at a championship.

"We look the same," said point guard Chauncey Billups, one of several prominent Pistons whose name was floated in trade rumors that were never fulfilled this summer. "I think we'll probably play a little different but we look the same."

President of basketball operations Joe Dumars ripped his players shortly after last season for not having the same hunger as Boston during the Eastern Conference finals and strongly suggested big changes were coming. ...More