Daly is a two time naismith memorial basketball hall of fame.

Detroit pistons coach chuck daly. He had been battling prostate cancer for awhile. Doug collins was the head coach for the pistons from 1995 to 1998. 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. Championships then coached the olympic dream team to a gold medal at the 1992 barcelona games died saturday.

Chuck daly who coached the detroit pistons bad boy teams to two consecutive n b a. As long as i knew him chuck was the same good coach and good guy former penn athletics director steve bilsky said. 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. 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.

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 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. The basketball world and the detroit pistons organization were dealt another blow today with the death of hall of fame coach chuck daly.

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.

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