THE Detroit Pistons have finalized their 2024-25 teaching workers – and it contains some new and previous faces.
9 assistant coaches will sit subsequent to and behind New Head Coach JB Bickerstaff on the sidelines this season. The record contains a number of names beforehand reported. Luke Walton and Sidney Lowe, who have been beforehand on Bickerstaff’s workers with the Cleveland Cavaliers, have joined him in Detroit. Walton was head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers from 2016-19 and the Sacramento Kings from 2019-21, and is the son of Corridor of Fame heart Invoice Walton.
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Lowe returns to the Pistons’ workers as an assistant for the third time, along with his final stints coming in 2005-06 and 2018-21. He additionally performed six video games with the Pistons in 1984. Vitaly Potapenko, a former 1996 lottery choose, joins the Pistons after six seasons with the Memphis Grizzlies. Bickerstaff initially added Potapenko to his bench in Memphis in 2018-19. His hiring was initially reported by ESPN.
Former Rio Grande Valley Vipers head coach (and older brother of former Lions receiver Nate Burleson) Kevin Burleson and taking pictures professional Fred Vincent, who left the New Orleans Pelicans in June, spherical out the record of reported names.
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Josh Estes, who was the Cavaliers’ coach and analytics coordinator from 2020-24, was additionally dropped at Detroit.
Jarrett Jack and Steve Scalzi, who have been employed by Monty Williams final summer season, have been retained as assistants underneath Bickerstaff. Jack, a former 16-year NBA professional, coached the Pistons’ summer season league staff for the second straight yr in July.
Jerome Allen, who was initially an assistant to Dwane Casey from 2021-23, additionally returns. Allen remained within the Detroit space final season and was a frequent presence on the Little Caesars Area sideline as a scout for the Boston Celtics.
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