DETROIT — Basketball Hall of Famer Grant Hill has fond memories of his five-year tenure with the Detroit Pistons. Outside of the dunks and game-winning plays that made him one of the best players in franchise history, scrimmaging against the Detroit Shock during his offseason training in the late 1990s is one of Hill’s best memories.

Nearly 30 years later, memories of playing against the Shock have led to Hill and his wife Tamia to join several equity investors hoping to bring the WNBA back to Detroit. In January, an investment group led by Pistons owner Tom Gores formally announced an expansion bid for a WNBA franchise.

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