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AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) _ Jerry Stackhouse and Grant Hill scored 27 points apiece as the Detroit Pistons defeated the Vancouver Grizzlies 111-97 Friday night after Joe Dumars' No. 4 jersey was retired.

Detroit has won two straight and moved back to .500 (30-30) since George Irvine replaced head coach Alvin Gentry on Monday.

The Grizzlies have lost seven straight, including a 0-3 mark on their current road trip.

Hill added nine rebounds and six assists, and the Pistons also got a season-high 16 points from Michael Curry and 10 points and 12 rebounds from Jerome Williams.

Othella Harrington led Vancouver with 25 points and Shareef Abdur-Rahim had 16.

The game did not start until 8:45 p.m. local time because of a 45-minute ceremony to retire Dumars jersey.

The Pistons blew open a close game with a 15-1 run to start the second quarter and led 60-44 at the half. Stackhouse had 16 in the half, while Hill added 15 and seven rebounds. The Pistons also turned 14 Vancouver turnovers into 17 points.

Vancouver cut the margin to 62-51 early in the third as the Pistons struggled from the floor. Detroit hit just four of its first 12 shots, but Vancouver still couldn't get the margin back to single digits.

Detroit only managed 16 points in the third, but the Grizzlies weren't much better and still trailed 76-64 at the beginning of the fourth.

The Pistons then put the game away by outscoring Vancouver 10-2 in the first three minutes of the fourth. Stackhouse led the way with two dunks, as the run put them up 86-66.

Detroit cruised from there, relaxing enough for Hill to throw a spectacular off-the-backboard alley-oop to Williams.

Notes: The win was Detroit's first over Vancouver in over three years. The teams didn't play in the lockout-shortened 1998-99 season, and Vancouver won the only two meetings of 1997-98. ... Detroit native Aretha Franklin sang the national anthem as part of the Dumars ceremony. ... Eric Montross, who shot just 34 percent from the free-throw line last season, finally made his first foul shot of the year. He entered the game having missed his only two attempts, and missed badly on his first try Friday. But his second one, a jumper, hit the rim and dropped in.