Detroit Pistons Head Coach Monty Williams and Common Supervisor Troy Weaver introduced yesterday that the crew has added Brian Adams to the teaching employees.
Adams joins Detroit with over 12 years of teaching expertise – each on the collegiate {and professional} ranges – together with three years as an assistant coach with the Philadelphia 76ers. Most not too long ago, Adams served as the pinnacle coach of Taipei Taishin Mars of the T1 league in Taipei Metropolis, Taiwan.
A local of Pine Plains, N.Y., Adams started his profession as an intern with the New York Knicks in 2005 earlier than becoming a member of the Boston Celtics as video coordinator underneath Head Coach Doc Rivers from 2006-11, serving with the employees that helped information the Celtics to the 2008 NBA Championship. Adams started his teaching profession at Harvard College as an assistant coach for 2 seasons earlier than becoming a member of the teaching employees at Marist College in 2013. Adams returned to the NBA with the Los Angeles Clippers group as a training affiliate from 2014-18. He was later named Head Coach of the Agua Caliente Clippers, NBA G League affiliate of the Los Angeles Clippers, previous to the 2018-19 season. After two seasons with Agua Caliente, Adams joined Doc Rivers’ employees as assistant coach with the Philadelphia 76ers in 2020. The Sixers amassed a document of 154-82 (.653) and appeared in three Japanese Convention playoff semifinals in three seasons throughout his tenure.
Adams earned a bachelor’s diploma in psychology from Connecticut School, the place he lettered in Cross-Nation whereas working with the boys’s basketball program as a supervisor and video assistant.