Pistons fire Curry after one season | detnews.com | The Detroit News
detnews.com 6/30/2009 — Chris McCosky / The Detroit News Auburn Hills -- The prevailing thought was that Michael Curry was going to get a second season to redeem himself after a rough, 39-43 rookie season. Pistons president Joe Dumars blew that thought right out of the ...

Pistons Fire Head Coach Curry After One Season
mkrob.com 7/1/2009 — All or nothing seems to be the formula for coaching the Detroit Pistons . Bring home an NBA championship or hit the road. First-year coach Michael Curry became the latest Pistons coach to get the ax as president for basketball operations Joe Dumars fired him Tuesday after watching his ...

Pistons fire Curry after just one season as coach - NBA - CBSSports.com Basketball
cbssports.com 6/30/2009 — AUBURN HILLS, Mich. -- All or nothing seems to be the formula for coaching the Detroit Pistons . Bring home an NBA championship or hit the road. First-year coach Michael Curry became the latest Pistons coach to get the ax as president for basketball ...

What a day
apps.detnews.com 6/30/2009 — I have been asked probably 1,000 times since the end of the season if Michael Curry was going to get fired. My standard answer was no, that Joe Dumars would probably give Curry a little more time to prove himself. That seemed to be the case after ...

Pistons' Dumars wants coach in place by Tuesday - Detroit Pistons Basketball: News, Blogs, Photos, Audio, Schedule & Stats
mlive.com 7/2/2009 — DETROIT -- The Detroit Pistons don't plan to wait long to name a replacement for fired coach Michael Curry. Joe Dumars, the Pistons' president for basketball operations, doesn't have a "complete list" of candidates but wants to act in less than a ...

Card Shark Dumars Has Been Toothless Lately
bleacherreport.com 6/30/2009 — Joe Dumars needs a new deck of cards. For better luck, if nothing else. The deck from which Dumars has been dealing cards to himself for the past several years must be crooked or stacked against him. Either that, or he’s just simply a bad ...

Last Chance Joe
gofor2.net 7/1/2009 — According to a source close to the Detriot Pistons, the team is currently meeting with Chicago Bull’s free agent Ben Gordon. If there’s one person who should really be hoping that the Piston can sign Gordon without breaking the bank, its the Pistons’ President of Basketball ...

Dumars Putting Together a New Floor Model
spartyandfriends.com 7/2/2009 — I know, I am supposed to have the day off, but this was too big a deal to not comment on. Nine years ago, Joe Dumars traded away his best player (and one of the NBA’s best). The next year, the Pistons would suffer their worst season in 7 years. A series of moves over 3 years to land ...

Looking at the offseason through the looking glass
detroitbadboys.com 7/23/2009 — For the second post in a row, a reader is making my job easier. Many of you have already seen this in the comments , but it deserves a chance to shine on the front page. Ladies and gentlemen, I shall now pass the conch to DBB reader Birdman: Apologies to Lewis Carroll and for the large amount ...

Pistons Pass On Johnson; Expected To Hire Kuester
mkrob.com 7/8/2009 — It’s starting to feel like the summer of 2001 all over again. The Pistons on Tuesday passed on hiring Avery Johnson as their next head coach. Instead, Pistons president Joe Dumars is likely to hire an experienced, high-profile assistant coach just like he did in 2001 when he ...

Auf Wiedersehen!: Michael Curry Experiment Is Over In Detroit — Bleacher Report - NBA 6/30/2009
I honestly contemplated giving this article the title "Curry Ousted, and God's Existence Proven in One Fell Swoop", but I figured this would be just a little bit hyperbolic. But only a little bit. This move makes sense on a number of levels, from ...

Sports Briefing | Pro Basketball: Pistons Fire Curry After One Season — NYT > Pro Basketball 7/1/2009
The first-year coach Michael Curry became the latest Detroit Pistons coach to be fired after the team stumbled to a sub-.500 record and a first-round exit from the playoffs. Joe Dumars, the president of basketball operations, had said Curry would ...

VIDEO: Hill: Pistons' real problem — FOXSports.com News for NBA 7/1/2009
Drafting Darko. Trading for Iverson. And now quickly firing Michael Curry. Maybe Joe Dumars is Detroit's problem, Randy Hill says.

Bulls, Pistons courting Gordon — chicagotribune.com - Sports 7/1/2009
Despite mutual desire for guard to remain with Bulls, money may not add up > A busy Tuesday for Joe Dumars began with the Pistons' president of basketball ...

Pistons fire coach Michael Curry after 1 season — SFGate: Top Sports Stories 6/30/2009
All or nothing seems to be the formula for coaching the Detroit Pistons. Bring home an NBA championship or hit the road. First-year coach Michael Curry became the latest Pistons coach to get the ax as president for basketball operations Joe Dumars ...