Being a coach is not just about what happens on the field of play. There are many people they have to listen to off the court, and they may not always make decisions that please the fanbase.
Chris Paul is playing his last NBA season in the 2025-26 campaign. The NBA is losing one of its great point guards and leaders, a player former head coach Monty Williams always points out and commends.
Under the Hood – it’s time to see what’s really going on inside this Pistons team. Firing on All Cylinders This year’s Detroit Pistons team has officially surpassed the amount of wins from the Monty Williams season, but did it in only 17 games.
How many of the active NBA players to make six three-pointers in a single game on at least 15 occasions in their career can you name in eight minutes?
Signing Day is here for college basketball and Baylor has officially signed a player to its 2026 recruiting class. On Wednesday, head coach Scott Drew and the Bears announced the signing of four-star forward Elijah Williams.
Christmas and the NBA go hand-in-hand. The day serves for the top hoops league in the world, like Thanksgiving for the NFL. However, while the Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys are perpetual Thanksgiving participants, the NBA has mixed up the matchups and the teams throughout the years.
It is fair to say the Detroit Pistons are no longer a dark-horse Eastern Conference playoff contender. The switch from Monty Williams to J.B. Bickerstaff saw the Pistons improve by 30 wins.
Elijah Williams is one of the top small forward recruits in the 2026 class. He also has an NBA pedigree going for him.
Jaden Ivey, who has been sidelined since January 1 with a broken left fibula, is taking part in “a progression of basketball shooting and skill work” in addition to ongoing reconditioning and strength exercises, the Pistons announced (Twitter link).
Ty Jerome’s Suns stint was forgettable but his words aren’t. Sometimes, a passing comment on a podcast might not seem significant. Words can slip, meanings can blur, and in the flow of conversation, intent can be lost.
From struggling to find his way as a rookie on the Phoenix Suns, to staking his claim as one of the league’s best sixth men with the top-seeded Cleveland Cavaliers, Ty Jerome hopped on the latest Ryen Russillo Podcast to reveal that he didn’t exactly get along with then Phoenix coach Monty Williams.
It was just last season that the Detroit Pistons lost 28 games in a row. That is the longest losing streak within a single season in NBA history. Detroit’s 14-68 record was their worst in team history, and Monty Williams was fired after just one year as the team’s head coach.
A season after firing Monty Williams, the Detroit Pistons’ growing pains continue as they opened their 2024-2025 season against the Indiana Pacers. While the young Pistons squad faced a challenge against a conference contender, their apparent immaturity also played against them.
Monty Williams has opted not to return to another NBA team this season as head coach, as Chris Haynes of Yahoo Sports reports that he has accepted the head coaching position at TMI Episcopal prep school in San Antonio.
Monty Williams will be a head coach after all this season, just not in the pro or college ranks. Williams has accepted the head coaching job at TMI Episcopal prep school in San Antonio, where he will coach his son Elijah, NBA insider Chris Haynes tweets.
Former Detroit Pistons HC Monty Williams is back. Kind of.
When the 2023-2024 NBA season concluded, the Detroit Pistons put together a search for a new President of Basketball Operations. Shortly after hiring Trajan Langdon from the New Orleans Pelicans, it became known that the new addition would have the power to make a call on the future of Troy Weaver and Monty Williams.
The Pistons fired Williams on Wednesday after just one season as head coach.
Following a disappointing 2023-2024 NBA season, the Detroit Pistons prioritized making major changes at the top of the front office, which has left many questioning whether that will trickle down to the coaching staff or not.
The Detroit Pistons have undergone some significant organizational changes this offseason but are expected to retain Monty Williams as their head coach for the upcoming NBA season.
The Detroit Pistons may be tipping their hand about head coach Monty Williams’ future with their latest hire.
Longtime Pelicans assistant Fred Vinson is leaving New Orleans after 14 years with the organization and will join Monty Williams‘ coaching staff with the Pistons.
When an NBA team gets a new general manager, the old coach's job is always in danger, even if he signed a giant, record-breaking contract.
Many Detroit Pistons fans thought that the team would trend upward after the franchise hired Monty Williams as head coach in 2023. After all, he’s a former Coach of the Year winner when he was still with the Phoenix Suns, whom he led to an NBA Finals appearance in 2021.
Head coach Monty Williams and the Detroit Pistons have not had a very successful 2023-24 NBA season, as the team currently sits with a horrible record
According to NBA insider Jake Fischer of Yahoo Sports, Monty Williams is not open to a buyout with the Detroit Pistons. Williams signed a six-year, $78.5 million contract with the Pistons.
Is Monty Williams’ seat already heating up in Detroit? A list put together by CBS Sports believes that the Detroit Pistons head coach is the leader in the NBA’s hot seat sector.
How much coaching has Williams — the 2021 NBA Coach of the Year — really been doing?
Two weeks after narrowly losing a game in Houston following a blown last-second call, the Knicks benefited from a missed call late in a two-point home victory over Detroit on Monday. To say the Pistons were displeased would be an understatement.
For the first time, Monty Williams coached an NBA game at Footprint Center against the Phoenix Suns as the head coach of the Detroit Pistons on Wednesday night.
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