The Detroit Pistons have picked Cavaliers assistant John Kuester (QUEUE'-ster) as their new head coach. Kuester was on Larry Brown's NBA championship-winning staff in Detroit five years ago. Pistons president for basketball operations Joe Dumars fired rookie coach Michael Curry on June 30. Curry ...

The Detroit Pistons are close to ending their search for a new boss on the bench. The Pistons and John Kuester were nearing an agreement Tuesday night to make him their coach, a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press. The person, who spoke on the ...

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 week, before ...

Michael Curry was fired on Tuesday as coach of the NBA's Detroit Pistons, his departure coming just one day before the start of the league's free agent signing period. The Pistons had reached the Eastern Conference finals for six consecutive seasons but went 39-43 in Curry's first season as coach and were drummed out of the play-offs ...