Tom Thibodeau’s Knicks sent J.B. Bickerstaff into offseason mode earlier then he wanted, yet the Pistons’ coach is still sticking up for his former colleague.

Bickerstaff was honored as being a finalist for the 2024-25 NBA Coach of the Year award along with Kenny Atkinson of the Cleveland Cavaliers and Ime Udoka of the Houston Rockets. Unfortunately for ...

DETROIT — J.B. Bickerstaff met the criteria to be a worthy candidate for this season’s NBA Coach of the Year, but the honor ultimately went to the man who replaced him at his last stop.

Bickerstaff was up for the NBA's Coach of the Year award, but on Monday night it was announced that the award went to Cleveland Cavaliers head coach Kenny Atkinson.

Bickerstaff did a considerable job in his first season as the Pistons' head coach. His accomplishments led to him finishing second in the NBA Coach of the Year race behind Cleveland Cavaliers ...

Detroit — The Pistons' impressive comeback this season serves as a vindication for coach J.B. Bickerstaff. A year after his firing from the Cleveland Cavaliers last May, Bickerstaff was one of ...

PIstons caoch J.B. Bickerstaff was constantly going back and forth with referees during their series with the Knicks. AP He wasn’t entirely successful, though, receiving a technical violation in ...

That was because Bickerstaff used his coach’s challenge on an insignificant out of bounds call 5:08 into the first quarter. The Pistons lost that challenge, leaving them without one for ...

On Sunday, the NBA revealed three finalists for each end-of-season award. Detroit Pistons head coach JB Bickerstaff was considered one of three finalists for the league’s Coach of the Year award ...

J.B. Bickerstaff was fired for a reason in Cleveland and it's starting to poison Detroit's dream season. But Koby Altman saw where things were going. He realized under Bickerstaff, this Cavs team ...

Detroit Pistons coach J.B. Bickerstaff looked at the roster when he got the job in July and knew he had something. “You have an idea and you can watch film, but until you’re with people every ...

But that didn’t matter in the moment, and it doesn’t matter when you’re establishing something very real, brick by brick. It didn’t even matter to Bickerstaff in his fiery moment.