Former NBA champion Kendrick Perkins claims that Donovan Mitchell was behind the Cleveland Cavaliers firing J.B. Bickerstaff.

J.B. Bickerstaff went to Detroit, where he helped turn the Pistons around, which landed him second in the COY voting.

Despite orchestrating one of the best one-year turnarounds in league history, Pistons' J.B. Bickerstaff came up short in the ...

Kenny Atkinson’s new team won its first 15 games and never looked back. Atkinson was always in the driver’s seat for, and eventually won, NBA Coach of the Year this season. Atkinson, 57, was the first ...

Things were so bad that head coach ... J.B. Bickerstaff. 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 ...

Detroit Pistons coach J.B. Bickerstaff finishes second in NBA Coach of the Year voting to Cleveland Cavaliers' Kenny Atkinson.

Kenny Atkinson of the Cavs became the 5th coach in NBA history to win 64-plus games in his 1st season with a team. Now he's the NBA Coach of the Year.

Detroit Pistons head coach JB Bickerstaff ... an important question. Bickerstaff shares the finalist honors with Houston Rockets head coach Ime Udoka and Cleveland Cavaliers head coach Kenny ...

DETROIT — J.B. Bickerstaff met ... the winner of the 2024-25 NBA Coach of the Year Award. After his surprising dismissal by the Cavaliers last offseason, Bickerstaff quickly landed in Detroit ...

Kenny Atkinson got Cleveland off to a 15-0 start to the season and led the Cavaliers to the best record in the Eastern Conference. J.B. Bickerstaff ... will be the NBA's coach of the year.

That team, the Cleveland Cavaliers, has taken a significant step forward with Atkinson as its head coach. Cleveland won 48 games under J.B. Bickerstaff last season, but jumped to 64 under Atkinson.