The Pistons have finalized their choice for the coaching position. And they will pay the price … As reported by ESPN and The Athletic, the Detroit club – where we find in particular the Frenchman Killian Hayes – has agreed with Monty Williams. A six-year, $78.5 million contract awaits the former Phoenix, Michigan coach. This is quite simply the biggest contract in NBA history for a coach! Moreover, the deal could even be even bigger on arrival, since there is talk of options for a seventh and eighth season. In the end, coach Williams could pocket up to just over 100 million greenbacks on the Detroit bench...
The league's top coach last season, Monty Williams, 51, left the Suns with a record of 194 wins and 115 losses in four seasons. Formerly in post in New Orleans (2010-15), he will succeed Dwane Casey, who retired after five years on the bench of the Pistons, dead last in the league standings at the end of the 2023-23 campaign with 17 successes and 65 backhands. Not happy during the recent lottery, the triple NBA champions (1988, 1989, 2004) will only draw in fifth position in the Draft on June 22.