With Johnson out, Pistons likley to hire Kuester | detnews.com | The Detroit News
detnews.com 7/7/2009 — Chris McCosky / The Detroit news Las Vegas -- 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 ...

Pistons Fire Michael Curry, But Why Now?
motownstringmusic.com 7/1/2009 — More photos » by Matt Sullivan - Getty Images Browse more photos » First of all, I'd like to thank Matt from Blog A Bull and Sean Yuille from Pride of Detroit for posting the news on Michael ...

Avery Johnson a no-go
pistonpost.com 7/7/2009 — Pretty disappointing, to say the least. I felt Johnson was the best candidate for the job, especially because of his ability to whip players into shape and maintain a team’s conduct. I still don’t think Cuban should have let him go from the Mavs. Can’t really put this one on ...

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 ...

Will Joe Dumars change his ways, show patience with new Pistons coach John Kuester? - Detroit Pistons Basketball: News, Blogs, Photos, Audio, Schedule & Stats
mlive.com 7/8/2009 — AUBURN HILLS -- Detroit Pistons president of basketball operations Joe Dumars has always been great about firing a good coach and replacing him with one who is even better. And who knows, maybe Cleveland assistant John Kuester -- expected to be named ...

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 ...

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 ...

Moves put pressure on Joe Dumars | detnews.com | The Detroit News
detnews.com 7/10/2009 — Bob Wojnowski Moves put pressure on Joe Dumars Auburn Hills This was about the coach, although it really wasn't about the coach. With the Pistons, it's never about any particular coach for any discernible length of time. Oh, John Kuester seems like a ...

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 ...

Joe Dumars and Maligned Guards
myespn.go.com 7/6/2009 — Remember when the Pistons were the toast of the town? In 2003-2004, they added Larry Brown and Rasheed Wallace and won the title. But the seeds of that team were really planted when the Pistons acquired some players with shaky reputations around the ...

Snag in negotiations halts Johnson's deal with Pistons — NBA.com: News 7/7/2009
Avery Johnson is not returning to the sidelines as coach of the Detroit Pistons after a deal between the two sides fell apart, a source close to the situation told NBA.com. The former Mavericks coach and current ESPN analyst had come to agreement with ...

The Beginning of the End of Joe Dumars' Reign in Detroit — Bleacher Report - NBA 7/8/2009
If you can't tell by now, I'm not very happy with the Detroit Pistons. I wasn't necessarily against their decision of going out and spending $16 million right away, but when team President Joe Dumars came out today and said the team wasn't ready, ...

Pistons close to naming coach — L.A. Times - Basketball 7/8/2009
Detroit reportedly will name longtime assistant John Kuester after they can't agree with Avery Johnson. > The Detroit Pistons reportedly are nearing an agreement with John Kuester  ...

Pistons move on from Avery Johnson — Celtics & NBA - BostonHerald.com 7/8/2009
The Detroit Pistons' courtship of Avery Johnson is over. Joe Dumars, the team's president for basketball operations, said yesterday that he's still looking...

Joe Dumars' pick for Pistons coach: obscure assistant John Kuester — Celtics & NBA - BostonHerald.com 7/8/2009
DETROIT - Joe Dumars has turned to Cleveland Cavaliers assistant John Kuester as the Pistons' next head coach. The Detroit Free Press learned late Tuesday afternoon...