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.

Detroit pistons coach chuck daly. 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. As long as i knew him chuck was the same good coach and good guy former penn athletics director steve bilsky said. Daly used these techniques to take the detroit pistons a team that never had two straight winning seasons before he arrived to nine playoff appearances. He was inducted into the basketball hall of fame in 1994.

The basketball world and the detroit pistons organization were dealt another blow today with the death of hall of fame coach chuck daly. He had been battling prostate cancer for awhile. Championships then coached the olympic dream team to a gold medal at the 1992 barcelona games died saturday. Charles jerome chuck daly distinguished himself as a basketball legend with the detroit pistons but it was both his style and his substance that led him to become one of detroit s most admired coaches born on july 20 1930 in kane pennsylvania daly began his basketball coaching career at punxsutawney high school in pennsylvania in 1955.

He was inducted into the basketball hall of fame in 1994. 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. Chuck daly led the pistons to two consecutive championships in the 1980s. Daly is a two time naismith memorial basketball hall of fame.

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.

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