The daly family and the entire detroit pistons and palace sports entertainment family is mourning the loss of chuck daly family spokesman and pistons vice president matt dobek said.

Detroit pistons coach chuck daly. As long as i knew him chuck was the same good coach and good guy former penn athletics director steve bilsky said. Detroit chuck daly who coached the original dream team to the olympic gold medal in 1992 after winning back to back nba championships with the detroit pistons died at age 78 saturday morning. Championships then coached the olympic dream team to a gold medal at the 1992 barcelona games died saturday. Chuck daly led the pistons to two consecutive championships in the 1980s.

Daly had a short run with the cleveland cavaliers but ultimately returned to the philadelphia 76ers until he was hired by the detroit pistons as their head coach in 1983. Chuck daly is best known however as the head coach of the detroit pistons where he orchestrated the bad boys led defense that frustrated michael jordan through the late 1980s going on to. Daly is a two time naismith memorial basketball hall of fame. The basketball world and the detroit pistons organization were dealt another blow today with the death of hall of fame coach chuck daly.

Chuck daly who coached the detroit pistons bad boy teams to two consecutive n b a. Charles jerome daly july 20 1930 may 9 2009 was an american basketball head coach he led the detroit pistons to two consecutive national basketball association nba championships in 1989 and 1990 and the 1992 united states men s olympic basketball team the dream team to the gold medal at the 1992 summer olympics. He had been battling prostate cancer for awhile. He was inducted into the basketball hall of fame in 1994.

Doug collins was the head coach for the pistons from 1995 to 1998.

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