{"id":437182,"date":"2023-06-02T23:17:12","date_gmt":"2023-06-03T03:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=437182"},"modified":"2023-06-02T23:17:12","modified_gmt":"2023-06-03T03:17:12","slug":"detroit-pistons-announce-monty-williams-as-new-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/detroit-pistons-announce-monty-williams-as-new-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Pistons announce Monty Williams as new head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monty Williams is the new head coach of <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/detroit-pistons\/\">Detroit Pistons<\/a>, the club announced on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Terms of the deal were not announced, but a person familiar with the situation told the AP on Wednesday night it was a six-year contract.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter spending some time with Monty, it\u2019s clear that he\u2019s found a unique balance between achieving victory at the highest level while at the same time nurturing a culture of growth, development and inspiration,\u201d Pistons owner Tom Gores said. \u201cI\u2019m beyond excited. This is a huge win for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 51-year-old Williams was fired by Phoenix on May 13, just two years after reaching the NBA Finals and a year after he won the league\u2019s coach of the year award.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Pistons?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Pistons<\/a> fam, let\u2019s welcome Monty Williams to the 313. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WhatUpDoe?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#WhatUpDoe<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0ZLPANS5Ho\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/0ZLPANS5Ho<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Detroit Pistons (@DetroitPistons) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DetroitPistons\/status\/1664772496208412673?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 2, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA week ago, I was not sure what the future would hold,\u201d Williams said in the team\u2019s release. \u201cBut, after talking with Tom and Troy, I was excited hearing their vision for the Pistons going forward. They had a thoughtful plan and I am so appreciative of the emphasis they placed on the personal side of this business. They showed tremendous consideration for me and my family throughout this process.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monty Williams is the new head coach of Detroit Pistons, the club announced on Friday. Terms of the deal were not announced, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":437183,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16727],"news_category":[16706,16715],"gn_keywords":[18432],"acf":{"announce":"\u201cA week ago, I was not sure what the future would hold,\u201d Williams said","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/437182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/437182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437182"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=437182"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=437182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}