J.B. Bickerstaff on His Coaching Journey and Being Ready to Bring Back Detroit Pistons Basketball

Road Trippin’

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4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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This week we welcome J.B. Bickerstaff to the show - the new head coach of the Detroit Pistons! We had a really great convo with J.B., where he talked about his NBA head coaching journey, the Cleveland Cavaliers playoff series against Orlando Magic and his best friend head coach Jamahl Moseley, his approach to coaching Cade Cunningham and a young Pistons team, they history of Detroit basketball (the Bad Boys era, Chanucey Billups, Richard Hamilton, Rasheed Wallace), what draws him to coaching, and more!

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0:08.0	Welcome into this edition of Road Reuben with R.J.
0:13.4	and Channing, minus Channing.
0:15.8	Richard Jefferson, I'm your host, Ali Clifton.
0:18.3	And he isn't frequent.
0:19.6	This is the third time, I think?
0:21.4	Yeah, every time he's on a different coaching
0:27.0	Head coach of the Detroit Detroit distance
0:31.0	Jamie Bicker staff staff. My career is fluid.
0:34.0	My career is fluid.
0:35.0	Okay.
0:36.0	That was actually really good.
0:37.0	Thank you.
0:38.0	I don't do that.
0:40.0	I didn't.
0:42.0	I didn't know this but how many coaches I did some research I did some
0:46.7	research how many teams have you been a head coach for it. You are the worst. You are the absolute worst. No, no, but no, because there's something that's like,
1:01.5	I played 17 years and I played for six or seven teams.
1:05.4	Like that's a still, it's a compliment, right?
1:07.8	Like you have helmed how many teams now?
1:10.3	Three, right? Houston, Memphis, Cleveland, now Detroit, so four. Really? Yeah, that have been a
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