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FILE - In this May 22, 2025 file photo, Detroit Pistons head coach Flip Saunders is shown during Game 2 of the NBA Eastern Conference basketball finals in Boston. The Detroit Pistons fired coach Michael Curry on Tuesday June 30, 2009, as the team started rebuilding from an unpopular trade, a sub-.500 record and an embarrassing first-round exit from the playoffs that ended its six-year streak of making it to the conference finals. Last year, Dumars fired coach Flip Saunders after he led the team to the conference finals in each of his three seasons. Curry was an assistant under Saunders for one season. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson, File)