List of Detroit Pistons head coaches

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The Detroit Pistons are an American professional basketball team based in Detroit, Michigan. The Pistons, currently owned by Tom Gores, are in the Central Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Basketball Association (NBA), playing their home games at Little Caesars Arena.[1][2]

The franchise was founded in 1937 by Fred Zollner as the Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons, a semi-professional company basketball team based in Fort Wayne, Indiana.[3] They would turn professional in 1941 when they joined the National Basketball League (NBL).[4] In 1948, the team was renamed the Fort Wayne Pistons and joined the Basketball Association of America (BAA), merging with the NBL to form the NBA one year later.[4] After nine seasons in Fort Wayne, Zollner moved the team to Detroit in 1957 to compete financially with other big city teams.[5] In the 1980s, general manager Jack McCloskey drafted Isiah Thomas, acquired Joe Dumars and Dennis Rodman, and hired head coach Chuck Daly.[5] The 1980s team, known as "the Bad Boys" due to their physical playing style, won both the 1989 and 1990 NBA Finals under Daly.[5] The Pistons won their third and most recent title in the 2004 NBA Finals under Larry Brown.[5]

Since joining the NBA, the Pistons have had 37 head coaches. Carl Bennett was the franchise's first head coach, leading the team for six games, all of which were losses.[6] 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).[7] Flip Saunders is the franchise's all-time leader in regular season win percentage (.715).[8] Daly and Brown are the only members of the franchise to be inducted to the Basketball Hall of Fame as coaches,[7][9] with Daly also being selected as one of the top 10 coaches in NBA history.[10] Ray Scott and Rick Carlisle won the NBA Coach of the Year Award for the 1973–74 and 2001–02 season, respectively.[11] Dick Vitale was named to the Basketball Hall of Fame to recognize the work he did as a broadcaster after leaving the franchise.[12] Sixteen head coaches have spent their entire NBA coaching careers with the Pistons. Notable players and coaches who spent time with the Pistons include Curly Armstrong,[13] Red Rocha,[14] Dick McGuire,[15] Dave DeBusschere,[16] Donnis Butcher,[17] Terry Dischinger,[18] Earl Lloyd,[19] Ray Scott,[20] and Michael Curry.[21]

The current head coach of the Pistons is J. B. Bickerstaff.[22]

Key

GC Games coached
W Wins
L Losses
Win% Winning percentage
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* Spent entire NBA head coaching career with the Pistons
Template:Double-dagger Elected into the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach

Coaches

Note: Statistics are correct through the end of the 2024–25 season. The list does not include NBL seasons.

# Name Term<templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[b] GC W L Win% GC W L Win% Achievements Reference
Regular season Playoffs
Fort Wayne Pistons
Template:Ntsh1 Script error: No such module "Sort".* 1948 6 0 6 .000 — — — — [6]
Template:Ntsh2 Script error: No such module "Sort".* 1948–1949 (as player-coach) 54 22 32 .407 — — — — [23]
Template:Ntsh3 Script error: No such module "Sort".* 1949–1951 136 72 64 .529 7 3 4 .429 [24]
Template:Ntsh4 Script error: No such module "Sort". 1951–1954 207 105 102 .507 14 4 10 .286 [25]
Template:Ntsh5 Script error: No such module "Sort".* 1954–1957 216 114 102 Template:Winpct 24 10 14 Template:Winpct [26]
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— Script error: No such module "Sort".* 1957 25 9 16 Template:Winpct 0 0 0 Template:Winpct [26]
Template:Ntsh6 Script error: No such module "Sort".* 1957–1960 153 65 88 .425 10 4 6 .400 [27]
Template:Ntsh7 Script error: No such module "Sort". 1959–1960 (as player-coach)
1960–1963 		280 122 158 .436 21 8 13 .381 [28]
Template:Ntsh8 Script error: No such module "Sort". 1963–1964 91 25 66 .433 — — — — [29]
Template:Ntsh9 Script error: No such module "Sort".* 1964–1967 (as player-coach) 222 79 143 .356 — — — — [30]
Template:Ntsh10 Script error: No such module "Sort".* 1967–1968 112 52 60 .464 6 2 4 .333 [31]
Template:Ntsh11 Script error: No such module "Sort". 1968–1969 60 22 38 .367 — — — — [32]
Template:Ntsh12 Script error: No such module "Sort". 1969–1971 174 82 92 .471 — — — — [33]
Template:Ntsh13 Script error: No such module "Sort".* 1971 (as player-coach) 2 0 2 .000 — — — — [34]
Template:Ntsh14 Script error: No such module "Sort".* 1971–1972 77 22 55 .286 — — — — [35]
Template:Ntsh15 Script error: No such module "Sort".* 1972–1976 281 147 134 .523 10 4 6 .400 1973–74 NBA Coach of the Year[11] [36]
Template:Ntsh16 Script error: No such module "Sort".* 1976–1977 146 72 74 .493 12 5 7 .417 [37]
Template:Ntsh17 Script error: No such module "Sort".* 1977–1978 58 29 29 .500 — — — — [38]
Template:Ntsh18 Script error: No such module "Sort".* 1978–1979 94 34 60 .362 — — — — [39]
Template:Ntsh19 Script error: No such module "Sort". 1979–1980 70 12 58 .171 — — — — [40]
Template:Ntsh20 Script error: No such module "Sort". 1980–1983 246 97 149 .394 — — — — [41]
Template:Ntsh21 Script error: No such module "Sort".Template:Double-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[10] 		[7]
Template:Ntsh22 Script error: No such module "Sort". 1992–1993 82 40 42 .488 — — — — [42]
Template:Ntsh23 Script error: No such module "Sort". 1993–1995 164 48 116 .293 — — — — [43]
Template:Ntsh24 Script error: No such module "Sort". 1995–1998 209 121 88 .579 8 2 6 .250 [44]
Template:Ntsh25 Script error: No such module "Sort". 1998–2000 145 73 72 .503 5 2 3 .400 [45]
Template:Ntsh26 Script error: No such module "Sort". 2000–2001 106 46 60 .434 3 0 3 .000 [46]
Template:Ntsh27 Script error: No such module "Sort". 2001–2003 164 100 64 .610 27 12 15 .444 2001–02 NBA Coach of the Year[11] [47]
Template:Ntsh28 Script error: No such module "Sort". 2003–2005 164 108 56 .659 48 31 17 .646 NBA championship (2004) [9]
Template:Ntsh29 Script error: No such module "Sort". 2005–2008 246 176 70 .715 51 30 21 .588 [8]
Template:Ntsh30 Script error: No such module "Sort".* 2008–2009 82 39 43 .476 4 0 4 .000 [48]
Template:Ntsh31 Script error: No such module "Sort".* 2009–2011 164 57 107 .348 — — — — [49]
Template:Ntsh32 Script error: No such module "Sort". 2011–2013 148 54 94 .365 — — — — [50]
Template:Ntsh33 Script error: No such module "Sort". 2013–2014 50 21 29 .420 — — — — [51]
Template:Ntsh34 Script error: No such module "Sort".* 2014 32 8 24 .250 — — — — [52]
Template:Ntsh35 Script error: No such module "Sort". 2014–2018 328 152 176 Template:Winning percentage 4 0 4 Template:Winning percentage [53]
Template:Ntsh36 Script error: No such module "Sort". 2018–2023 384 121 263 Template:Winning percentage 4 0 4 Template:Winning percentage [54]
Template:Ntsh37 Script error: No such module "Sort". 2023–2024 82 14 68 Template:Winning percentage — — — Template:Winning percentage [55]
Template:Ntsh38 Script error: No such module "Sort". 2024–present 82 44 38 Template:Winning percentage 6 2 4 Template:Winning percentage [56]

Notes

  • <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>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.
  • <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>b Each year is linked to an article about that particular NBA season.

References

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