Cade Cunningham walking into Ford Field as the Detroit Lions took on the Dallas Cowboys didn’t feel like a headline at first. It was a normal appearance from the Detroit Pistons guard, but once he appeared on the mic with reporters on camera, things changed. What initially seemed like a sense of unity between the Motor City teams quickly changed as he spoke on the broadcast.

“We going to the Super Bowl,” Cunningham said when being asked what he expected the Cowboys to do. “That’s how I feel.”

It must have come as a surprise to many Pistons fans, especially considering the city of Detroit’s sports identity: blue-collar, hard-nosed, physical toughness. Now, when fans expected unity, Cunningham’s response detonated across the city.

Cunningham, to his benefit, was born in Texas, and grew up

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