Originally Posted by R8RBOB Being in Detroit, I saw first hand the situation that will arise after the owner dies. The Detroit Pistons owner died in 2009 and though he wanted the team to stay in his family, his wife decided that she did not want to be a basketball owner and she put the team up for the sale. Between the time she put the team up for sale and the day the team was sold, there were rumors that a group from Las Vegas wanted to buy the Pistons and move them to Vegas. In the end she sold it to a guy who wants to keep ...