Detroit Pistons' Monty Williams has inked a $78.5M as the team's new head coach. LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – APRIL 22: Head coach of the Phoenix Suns Monty Williams react to play from the ...

NBA champion Stephen Jackson backed Monty Williams, who was fired by the Phoenix Suns over the weekend, saying that the Suns will find a White coach "so he can get all the credit." ...

One year ago, the Detroit Pistons made a major push to hire Monty Williams as their coach on a massive six-year, $78.5 million deal. One year later, the Pistons are moving on from Williams.

Kevin Durant will be playing for another new coach next season. The Phoenix Suns fired head coach Monty Williams on Saturday, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. The axing comes two days ...

A common talking point of the first-round playoff series between Phoenix and New Orleans will be the friendship between Suns coach Monty Williams and Pelicans coach Willie Green. Over the past 20 ...

Detroit — The Pistons’ pursuit of Monty Williams as their new coach began not long after he was fired by the Phoenix Suns, following a second-round exit in the playoffs.

Williams went 194-115 over four seasons with Phoenix. For an organization that had bottomed out, missing the postseason for nine consecutive seasons, he changed the culture, and he did so with ...

But Williams arrives with the Pistons in a different spot. The 17-65 record is still awful, although Cade Cunningham’s absence, as well as other injuries, partly explains it.

The Phoenix Suns fired coach Monty Williams on Saturday, just two days after a season-ending blowout loss to the Denver Nuggets in the second round of the playoffs. Williams, 51, was instrumental ...

Monty Williams barely had enough time to process what had just occurred. In his second season as head coach, Williams led the Phoenix Suns from the lottery and back to the NBA Finals for the first ...

So Williams did just that even as the Suns nursed a 2-1 first-round series deficit to the Los Angeles Lakers, which players credit for the team’s ability to win the series in six games.