Published 6/30/2009
at Yahoo! Sports - NBA News
The Detroit Pistons fired coach Michael Curry on Tuesday as the team started rebuilding from an unpopular trade, a sub-.500 record and an embarrassing first-round exit from the playoffs that ended its six-year streak of making it to the conference finals. The Pistons went 39-43 and were swept in the postseason in four lopsided losses to the Cleveland Cavaliers.
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