The best coach available just chose an unlikely team for a long-term partnership. Is this the beginning of a sea change for how free agents perceive the Detroit Pistons? In case you're living under a rock, you may not have heard the news -- Stan Van Gundy has joined the Detroit Pistons as the next head coach and president of basketball operations. There has been much rejoicing, and fans have every...
Pistons fans have met the Stan Van Gundy news with overwhelming positivity. What else is being said out there? Brandon Jennings : I've always like Stan Van Gundy. — BRANDON JENNINGS (@BrandonJennings) May 13, 2014 Andre Drummond : Excited to have SVG as the new @DetroitPistons coach! Ready for the season to start again!! pic.twitter.com/2lUMo4vPMO — Andre Drummond (@AndreDrummondd) May 14, 2014 Greg...
Kansas' Andrew Wiggins and Joel Embiid and Duke's Jabari Parker are expected to be the top three picks in the draft, but the Pistons could be interested in Exum over Embiid if they get lucky and move into the top three in Tuesday's draft lottery....
There's talent here, Stan Van Gundy said. And that talent, he said during a Thursday afternoon press conference at the Palace of Auburn Hills to introduce him as both Pistons' head coach and president of basketball operations, begins with center Andre Drummond. But it's the second name Van Gundy brought up that will be his first priority: Greg Monroe....
Stan Van Gundy met the Detroit media for the first time today as Pistons president of basketball operations and head coach during a news conference at the Palace of Auburn Hills. Here are some notable bullet points from the conference....
He's got great athleticism, Van Gundy said. He's a shot blocker. He can score inside. But the most underrated part of Smith's game, Van Gundy said, is his passing ability....
'It really is an increasingly difficult job and obviously, at the Warriors, we had an incredible respect for him,' West said today at the NBA pre-draft combine, where he is attending as a Golden State Warriors consultant. 'I just think it's a difficult job because he's so intense and such a hard worker that he's going to have to have someone working with him to relieve the pressure, gather information....
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The Pistons big man is a restricted free agent as he enters his fifth NBA season, and the new president-coach will have to make a decision on his future with the team....
Former Michigan and Michigan State basketball players came out to day one of the NBA draft combine at Quest Multisport in Chicago, Illinois on Thursday, May 15, 2014. While Nik Stauskas, Adreian Payne and Gary Harris didn't take part in today's......
Jackson and Van Gundy's connection dates back 20 years to when the former hired the latter as an assistant coach at the University of Wisconsin. ...
Van Gundy is the Pistons' 31st head coach (counting those who held the job on an interim basis) since the franchise moved from Fort Wayne to Detroit in 1957....
CHICAGO – Fair to guess that not one of the 61 players scheduled to participate in this week’s NBA draft combine will be requested more f...
With the NBA Draft combine just around the corner, mainstream sports media services have already started to put out mock drafts. Which players are the Bobcats projected to take? With the playoff series against the Heat well over, the next big event for the Charlotte Bobcats is the NBA Draft on June 26th. Avoiding a lottery relegation for the first time since 2010, the Bobcats are locked into the 24th...
New Pistons head coach and president of basketball operations had strong opinions on the embarrassing Pistons mutiny in 2011. I'd rather not relive it, but here's Stan Van Gundy on the 2011 Pistons mutiny [ via Freep , emphasis mine] "All of us have problems with our bosses at times, but you don't choose to just not show up for work," Van Gundy told Dan Le Batard on WAXY-AM (790) in Miami in March...
Stan Van Gundy did an interview with an Orlando radio station where he talked about his new job, his old team and his friend and former GM Otis Smith. As everyone awaits the Stan Van Gundy introductory press conference scheduled today at 4:15 p.m. ET, Van Gundy gave an interview to an Orlando radio station where he dished on some of the key issues he'll likely be asked about this afternoon including...
Stan Van Gundy will have the final say in the front office, but he's still expected to hire a right-hand man. Could it be Otis Smith? Stu Jackson? George David? Ken Catanella? Someone else?...
The Detroit Pistons have given the keys to the franchise to Stan Van Gundy. Here's how that move is being viewed around the nation:...
A person with firsthand knowledge of the situation said that Van Gundy is a big fan of Monroe and spoke glowingly of him during the interview process. Such feelings would contradict a Sporting News report saying that Van Gundy's hiring means Monroe is headed out the door....