Keith Bogans joining the Detroit Pistons coaching staff

A former Cat just hired another former Cat in the NBA. This morning, the Detroit Pistons announced that Keith Bogans will join Dwane Casey’s coaching staff as an assistant coach/player development coach. Bogans served as a coach on Detroit’s Summer League team in July.

Bogans, age 42, spent 11 seasons in the NBA with eight different teams and was an assistant coach for the New York Knicks during the 2019-20 season. Prior to that, he was an assistant for the Westchester Knicks, New York’s G-League affiliate, from 2017-19. A four-year starter at Kentucky (1999-2003), Bogans led the Cats to the No. 1 ranking in the AP Poll and a 32-4 record his senior year, which sadly ended with a loss to Marquette in the Elite Eight.

Bogans joins a Detroit Pistons program that is 104-198 in five seasons under Dwane Casey. The pride of Morganfield, Kentucky, Casey was part of the 1978 national championship squad. After graduation, he joined Joe B. Hall’s staff as an assistant, the start of a coaching career that now spans four decades. In 2011, he won his first NBA title as an assistant for the Dallas Mavericks. In 2018, he was named NBA Coach of the Year after leading the Toronto Raptors to the Conference Semifinals. (Ironically, the Raptors had just fired him.)

Casey, Bogans, Nerlens Noel, Kevin Knox, and Hamidou Diallo…are the Detroit Pistons the new Kentucky NBA squad?