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Seventeen members of the $1.4 billion Michigan First Credit Union are starting the New Year on a positive foot after receiving an unexpected early Christmas present from two players of the Detroit Pistons.

Not long after the Lathrup Village-based credit union signed a new partnership to become the official credit union of the Detroit Pistons in October, the NBA team reached out to Michigan First at the request of its then-power forward player Marvin Bagley III, who offered to help financially struggling members.

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