8:57pm: The Pistons officially announced the news (Via Twitter) Troy Weaver will be effectively demoted and new front office hires will report directly to the team owner. Tom Gores.
3:05 PM: of piston According to The Athletic's Shams Charania, the decision has been made to hire a president of basketball operations.Via Twitter) The search process is expected to begin this week.
Local reporters such as James L. Edwards III of The Athletic and Omari Sankofa II of the Detroit Free Press had suggested this would happen.Prior to Charania's report, Sankofa tweeted The Pistons are expected to “formalize” their search for a president of basketball operations in the next day or so.
Doesn't sound like a general manager, as Sankofa and Edwards write troy weaver He will be fired due to a change in the front office. But this is certainly a demotion for Weaver, who has served as the team's director of basketball operations since taking over in 2020. Under the new structure, Weaver will report to Detroit's new director of basketball operations.
According to Sankofa (subscription required), the Pistons would like to strengthen their front office with other executives, perhaps either below Weaver in the hierarchy or at the same level. If Weaver and the Pistons don't agree with the owner's plan to revamp the front office, it's possible that the two will go their separate ways, but that doesn't seem to be the case right now.
Weaver has had a disastrous four years in Detroit since being hired to replace the Thunder. Ed Stefanski He is the head of basketball operations for the Pistons. During that time, the club never won more than 23 games in a season and had an overall record of 74 wins, 244 losses (.233).
Going into the 2023/24 season, there were expectations that the team's young core players would be active. Cade Cunningham, jaylen duren, Isiah Stewart, author thompsonand Jaden Ivy – may be ready to take a step forward and bring the Pistons into the play-in mix. Instead, the team finished last in the NBA with 14 wins and 68 losses, setting a record for the most consecutive losses in a single season (28 games).
There are no concrete reports yet on which candidates will be considered for the job of Detroit's president of basketball operations, but Edwards listed several ideas in a recent article for The Athletic, including: stated. John Horst (Bucks), John Hammond (magic), Neil Olshey (Trail Blazers), Bryson Graham (pelican), and Dwane Casey Fit as much as possible.
Mark Stein (Twitter link) confirms that we believe the Pistons are interested in exploring the possibility of hiring Horst from Milwaukee.