{"id":774885,"date":"2026-05-05T12:32:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T12:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/774885\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T12:32:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T12:32:40","slug":"detroit-pistons-announce-extension-with-coach-j-b-bickerstaff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/774885\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Pistons announce extension with coach J.B. Bickerstaff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DETROIT (AP) \u2014 Pistons coach J.B. Bickerstaff has agreed to a contract extension on the heels of Detroit&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/magic-pistons-score-446aabc1b621307e848afd5f6bab6def\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first-round playoff series victory over the Orlando Magic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Details regarding the value and length of the extension were not released by the Pistons when they announced the deal on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Pistons have gone 104-60 in regular-season games under Bickerstaff and made two playoff appearances since he <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/detroit-pistons-coach-bickerstaff-e1506bb1e4620ff96aa0ace1e9bbca10\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">took over for Monty Williams at the start of the 2024-25 season<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Detroit lost in the first round a year ago. This season, the Pistons had the best record in the Eastern Conference at 60-22 and on Sunday defeated Orlando 116-94 to close out a playoff series victory for the first time since 2008. <\/p>\n<p>In the fall of 2024, Bickerstaff took over a Pistons franchise that had posted the NBA&#8217;s worst record in each of the previous two seasons, including a 14-68 record in 2023-24. <\/p>\n<p>Before Bickerstaff arrived, Detroit finished with the worst record in the NBA in consecutive seasons. <\/p>\n<p>Detroit opens a second-round playoff series at home on Tuesday night against the Cleveland Cavaliers \u2014 a team Bickerstaff coached from the end of the 2019-2020 season through the 2023-24 campaign. <\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NBA: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DETROIT (AP) \u2014 Pistons coach J.B. Bickerstaff has agreed to a contract extension on the heels of Detroit&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":774886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[12111,1260,6326,3579,196,62,2732,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-774885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-compensation-in-sports","tag-nba","tag-nba-basketball","tag-nba-playoffs","tag-s","tag-sports","tag-sports-transactions","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116521988868361600","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}