JANUARY 4: The Pistons have announced the addition of Adams to their staff in a press release, the team’s PR department tweets.
DECEMBER 31: The Pistons are adding another assistant coach to their ranks, according to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN, who reports that Brian Adams is joining Monty Williams‘ staff.
After working as a video coordinator for several years in Boston under Doc Rivers, Adams served as an assistant coach with multiple NCAA programs, including Harvard. He eventually joined the Clippers’ staff as a coaching associate under Rivers in 2014 and was named the head coach of Los Angeles’ G League affiliate in 2018.
Adams left the Clippers organization along with Rivers in 2020 and became an assistant on the Sixers’ staff from 2020-23 before departing Philadelphia following Rivers’ dismissal this past offseason.
Adams subsequently accepted a job as the head coach of Taipei in Taiwan’s T1 League for the 2023/24 season, but according to Wojnarowski, he’s returning stateside and joining the Pistons on their upcoming Western Conference road trip, which begins on Monday and runs through January 7.
As Woj notes, the Pistons have been missing a member of Williams’ bench for nearly the entire season, with assistant Dan Burke away from the club for personal reasons. Williams said just over a month ago that the veteran coach was still part of his staff, but the hiring of Adams is a sign that Detroit may not expect Burke back anytime soon.
In the winter of ‘23
“Eveything he does, he does it for them”.
Boy, this cuts like a knife.
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Will pistons trade for Miles Bridges and John Collins?
Miles Bridges maybe(NY would be good, they are kind of the same type of people) but Collins doesn’t fit age wise. Collins should go to Sacramento, Brooklyn and Chicago
Collins can barely play for one team consistently, let alone 3.
Bring Dwight back from Taiwan. Bring toughness AND mentor Duren, Wiseman AND Bagley
feel like that streak would have been over quicker if dan burke didn’t just disappear after the third game of the year
Who TF is Dan Burke?
Dan Burke is one the Pistons assistant coaches. I didn’t know he disappeared after the third game though. I’m also not sure how much of an impact he has the losing streak.
What do you mean disappear? Like he was abducted? How is this not a bigger story? Losing streak is bad but this is a man’s life at steak…