The NBA coaching carousel keeps going around and around and around.
According to Yahoo Sports’ Vince Goodwill, the Detroit Pistons are hiring J.B. Bickerstaff to replace Monty Williams as head coach.
J.B. Bickerstaff will be the new Pistons head coach, sources tell @YahooSports. It was between Bickerstaff and former Pistons assistant Sean Sweeney, who’s in Dallas.
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— Vincent Goodwill (@VinceGoodwill) June 30, 2024
Bickerstaff, 45, was recently fired by the Cleveland Cavaliers after leading them to two consecutive playoff appearances. Over five years in the Cleve he had a 170-159 coaching record.
This is the first major hire made by Trajan Langdon, the Pistons’ new president of basketball operations. He was hired in late May after spending five years as the general manager for the New Orleans Pelicans. He and Bickerstaff will be in charge of turning around the Pistons after a 14-68 season, the worst in franchise history.
Bickerstaff, who will be Detroit’s third coach in three seasons, has his work cut out for him. The Pistons won an NBA-worst 14 games under Williams last season, and he’ll need to get more out of the roster than Williams did. Though right now, Bickerstaff is in roughly the same position Williams was a year ago: hired by the Pistons after being fired from a much more successful team.
Will Bickerstaff be able to do more with the NBA’s worst team than Williams did? We’ll have to wait and see.
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