List of Detroit Pistons head coaches

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Chuck Daly led the Pistons to two consecutive championships in the 1980s. He was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1994.

The Detroit Pistons are an American professional basketball team based in Auburn Hills, Michigan. They play in the Central Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The team, owned by Tom Gores, plays its home games at The Palace of Auburn Hills.[1][2] The franchise was founded in 1941 by Fred Zollner as the Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons, playing in the National Basketball League (NBL).[3] In 1948, the team was renamed to the Fort Wayne Pistons and joined the Basketball Association of America (BAA), which merged with the NBL to become the NBA a year later.[3] After spending nine seasons in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Zollner moved the team to Detroit, Michigan in 1957 to be able to compete financially with other big city teams.[4] In the 1980s, general manager Jack McCloskey was instrumental in the Pistons' future championship runs by drafting Isiah Thomas, acquiring key players like Joe Dumars and Dennis Rodman and hiring head coach Chuck Daly.[4] The 1980s team, known today as "the Bad Boys" due to the physical playing style, eventually won two championships in the 1989 and 1990 NBA Finals under Daly.[4] The Pistons won their third title in the 2004 NBA Finals under the tenure of Larry Brown.[4]

There have been 35 head coaches for the Pistons franchise since joining the NBA. The franchise's first head coach while in the NBA was Carl Bennett, who coached the team for six games, all of which are losses.[5] Chuck Daly is the franchise's all-time leader in regular-season games coached (738), regular-season games won (467), playoff games coached (113), and playoff games won (71);[6] Flip Saunders is the franchise's all-time leader in regular-season winning percentage (.715).[7] Daly and Larry Brown are the only members of the franchise to have been inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame as coaches;[6][8] Daly was also selected as one of the top 10 coaches in NBA history.[9] Both Ray Scott and Rick Carlisle have won NBA Coach of the Year in the 1973–74 and 2001–02 season, with the Pistons respectively.[10] Former coach Dick Vitale was named to the Basketball Hall of Fame in honor of the work he did as a basketball broadcaster after leaving the Pistons.[11] Sixteen head coaches have spent their entire NBA head coaching careers with the Pistons. Curly Armstrong, Red Rocha, Dick McGuire, Dave DeBusschere, Donnie Butcher, Terry Dischinger, Earl Lloyd, Scott, and Michael Curry formerly played for the team.[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] The current head coach of the Pistons is Stan Van Gundy.[21]

Key

GC Games coached
W Wins
L Losses
Win% Winning percentage
# Number of coaches[a]
* Spent entire NBA head coaching career with the Pistons
double-dagger Elected into the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach

Coaches

Flip Saunders was the coach for the Pistons from 2005 to 2008.

Note: Statistics are correct through the end of the 2013–14 season. The list does not include NBL seasons.

# Name Term[b] GC W L Win% GC W L Win% Achievements Reference
Regular season Playoffs
1 Carl Bennett* 1948 6 0 6 .000 — — — — [5]
2 Curly Armstrong* 1948–1949 (as player-coach) 54 22 32 .407 — — — — [22]
3 Murray Mendenhall* 1949–1951 136 72 64 .529 — — — — [23]
4 Paul Birch 1951–1954 207 105 102 .507 14 4 10 .286 [24]
5 Charley Eckman* 1954–1957 241 123 118 .510 24 10 14 .417 [25]
6 Red Rocha* 1957–1960 153 65 88 .425 10 4 6 .400 [26]
7 Dick McGuire 1959–1960 (as player-coach)
1960–1963		 280 122 158 .436 21 8 13 .381 [27]
8 Charles Wolf 1963–1964 91 25 66 .433 — — — — [28]
9 Dave DeBusschere* 1964–1967 (as player-coach) 222 79 143 .356 — — — — [29]
10 Donnie Butcher* 1967–1968 112 52 60 .464 6 2 4 .333 [30]
11 Paul Seymour 1968–1969 60 22 38 .367 — — — — [31]
12 Butch van Breda Kolff 1969–1971 174 82 92 .471 — — — — [32]
13 Terry Dischinger* 1971 (as player-coach) 2 0 2 .000 — — — — [33]
14 Earl Lloyd* 1971–1972 77 22 55 .286 — — — — [34]
15 Ray Scott* 1972–1976 281 147 134 .523 10 4 6 .400 1973–74 NBA Coach of the Year[10] [35]
16 Herb Brown* 1976–1977 146 72 74 .493 12 5 7 .417 [36]
17 Bob Kauffman* 1977–1978 58 29 29 .500 — — — — [37]
18 Dick Vitale* 1978–1979 94 34 60 .362 — — — — [38]
19 Richie Adubato 1979–1980 70 12 58 .171 — — — — [39]
20 Scotty Robertson 1980–1983 246 97 149 .394 — — — — [40]
21 Chuck Dalydouble-dagger 1983–1992 738 467 271 .633 113 71 42 .628 2 NBA championships (1989, 1990)
One of the top 10 coaches in NBA history[9]		 [6]
22 Ron Rothstein 1992–1993 82 40 42 .488 — — — — [41]
23 Don Chaney 1993–1995 164 48 116 .293 — — — — [42]
24 Doug Collins 1995–1998 209 121 88 .579 8 2 6 .250 [43]
25 Alvin Gentry 1998–2000 145 73 72 .503 5 2 3 .400 [44]
26 George Irvine 2000–2001 106 46 60 .434 3 0 3 .000 [45]
27 Rick Carlisle 2001–2003 164 100 64 .610 27 12 15 .444 2001–02 NBA Coach of the Year[10] [46]
28 Larry Browndouble-dagger 2003–2005 164 108 56 .659 48 31 17 .646 NBA championship (2004) [8]
29 Flip Saunders 2005–2008 246 176 70 .715 51 30 21 .588 [7]
30 Michael Curry* 2008–2009 82 39 43 .476 4 0 4 .000 [47]
31 John Kuester* 2009–2011 164 57 107 .348 — — — — [48]
32 Lawrence Frank 2011–2013 148 54 94 .365 — — — — [49]
33 Maurice Cheeks 2013–2014 50 21 29 .420 — — — — [50]
34 John Loyer* 2014 32 8 24 .250 — — — — [51]
35 Stan Van Gundy 2014–present 82 32 50 .390 — — — —

Notes

  • a A running total of the number of coaches of the Pistons. Thus, any coach who has two or more separate terms as head coach is only counted once.
  • b Each year is linked to an article about that particular NBA season.

References

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