From the Detroit Free Press

Pictured at right: It’s Afros all around for the Pistons’ starting five - from left, Rasheed Wallace, Ben Wallace, Tayshaun Prince, Richard Hamilton and Chauncey Billups - and coach Larry Brown in the December 2004 issue of GQ.

Your NBA champions are included in GQ’s annual “Men of the Year” package. It hits newsstands Nov. 23 — look for Tom Cruise, Jude Law and James Gandolfini on the cover.

The team’s main men — Rasheed Wallace, Ben Wallace, Tayshaun Prince, Rip Hamilton, Chauncey Billups and even Larry Brown — all posed wearing ‘Fro wigs.

Well, actually, Ben didn’t need a wig.

Looks pretty cool, doesn’t it? GQ did the shoot during the team’s media day, behind closed curtains at the Palace.

‘Sheed has a high-rise ‘do, like Don King or maybe Kid from Kid ‘n Play. And young Tayshaun looks like one of the kids from “The White Shadow.”

Rip has kind of a Jimi Hendrix thing going, with that headband. Coach Brown, if you look close, has a pick in his ‘do. (He’s old school — set those picks!)

And Chauncey — maybe because he usually has no hair at all — overcompensates with the biggest ‘Fro of them all.

The words that accompany the photo in GQ’s “Detroit Pistons Teamsters” spread are provided by Detroit’s own Kid Rock, a few of which in the brief article can’t be printed in a family newspaper.

Photo by Martin Schoeller/GQ

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