Quick, say something positive about former Detroit Piston Josh Smith.

I’ll try … Josh Smith is durable. Well, pretty durable. Painfully durable. This is veering off to a negative track already.

Well, Smith’s durability this season, asset or not, has put him, the Pistons and the Houston Rockets in rare company — he’s now one of only three players in the last 10 years to play in 83 regular season games, joining perennial address changers Ramon Sessions and Jarrett Jack.

Also random useless fact — the Pistons are also responsible for giving the player who appeared in more games in a single season than anyone in NBA history that opportunity. And great news! That, like Smith, was also the result of a terrible acquisition, the famous Walt Bellamy-for-Dave DeBusschere trade. Via Matthew Rothstein of Dime:

Since we’re already in the “weird statistics” rabbit hole, let’s take a look at the all-time leaders in games played in a single season. Ignoring the ABA because they were super weird, we have Hall of Famer Walt Bellamy as the leader with…88 GAMES?! How is that possible? Bellamy was traded from the Knicks to the Pistons for Dave DeBusschere in December of 1968. Remember, the NBA didn’t have chartered flights back then, so schedules were more unbalanced to account for travel. Still, the dude put in work, and he wasn’t a slouch on the court, either. He averaged 17 points and 12 rebounds that season.

For those not versed in their history, DeBusschere was a high school and college star in Detroit who ended up toiling away on some awful Pistons team — and even serving as player-coach for a couple of them — before being sent to the Knicks and helping them win a championship. Also, fact that no one but me cares about — I grew up in a house in Michigan raised by my dad as a Knicks fan because he was angry at the franchise for trading DeBusschere for the better part of two decades. Thankfully, the Bad Boys healed those wounds and the household shun of the Pistons came to an end.