Stan Van Gundy built a team he couldn't coach to the promised land, and now he's out in Detroit

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After four largely underwhelming seasons, Stan Van Gundy’s tenure with the Detroit Pistons is over. As first reported by Vincent Ellis of the Detroit Free Press and confirmed by Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN, the Pistons on Monday chose to “part ways” with Van Gundy, 58, one week shy of four years after hiring him to be their head coach and president of basketball operations. Van Gundy had one year and $7 million left on his five-year contract, but after compiling a record of 152-176 in four years at the helm — four years that included only one trip to the postseason, a brief stay in the spring of 2016, when they were swept out of the first round by the eventual NBA champion Cleveland Cavaliers — he won’t see the end of his term as the Pistons’ on-court and front-office decision-maker.

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