{"id":333431,"date":"2023-06-03T13:14:14","date_gmt":"2023-06-03T11:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=333431"},"modified":"2023-06-03T13:14:14","modified_gmt":"2023-06-03T11:14:14","slug":"detroit-pistons-name-monty-williams-as-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/detroit-pistons-name-monty-williams-as-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Pistons name Monty Williams as head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"GutenbergParagraph_gutenbergParagraph__unejv mt-5 md:mt-7.5 text-base\" data-testid=\"paragraph\">\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/pistons\/news\/detroit-pistons-name-monty-williams-as-head-coach\">Detroit Pistons<\/a> announced today an agreement with Monty Williams to join the organization as Head Coach. Williams, who will be formally introduced at a news conference in Detroit next week, has already initiated the transition and begun scheduling player meetings and staff development.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"GutenbergParagraph_gutenbergParagraph__unejv mt-5 md:mt-7.5 text-base\" data-testid=\"paragraph\">\n<p>\u201cI couldn\u2019t be more proud to have Monty joining us at this important time to lead us into the next decade of our future,\u201d said Pistons owner Tom Gores. \u201cHe embodies all of the qualities we want in a leader for our Pistons franchise, and most importantly a teacher and mentor for our players. He will have an impact on every aspect of our franchise, on and off the court.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"GutenbergParagraph_gutenbergParagraph__unejv mt-5 md:mt-7.5 text-base\" data-testid=\"paragraph\">\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 Gores said. \u201cI\u2019m beyond excited. This is a huge win for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI couldn\u2019t be more proud to have Monty joining us at this important time to lead us into the next decade of our future\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GI4o7wXv9U\">https:\/\/t.co\/GI4o7wXv9U<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Detroit Pistons (@DetroitPistons) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DetroitPistons\/status\/1664772687636447237?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 2, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Williams signed a six-year, $72 million deal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":333429,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[185,15727],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-333431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-official","typology-press-release-en"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/06\/bomwIANB.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333431"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=333431"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=333431"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=333431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}