Coming into his fourth season with the Detroit Pistons, head coach Stan Van Gundy has become the longest tenured in franchise history since the legendary Chuck Daly coached the Bad Boys back in the 80s and early 90s.

Daly coached the Pistons from 1983 to 1992, bringing a legacy of tough, aggressive, chip-on-your-shoulder brand of basketball that earned him back-to-back championships in 1989 and 1990. He has the third-best regular season winning percentage, coming out victorious in 63.3 percent of his games, topped only by the late Flip Saunders and Larry Brown.

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The Pennsylvania native was inducted to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame twice, once in 1994 for his individual coaching career, and then posthumously for leading the 1992 Dream Team to a gold medal at the Barcelona Olympic Games.

Van Gundy is 20 wins under the .500 mark, but has kept the Motor City away from the cellar after a disappointing last decade, managing to keep his job and re-inventing a structure around his players.

The 57-year-old will now reload with an elite-caliber defender in Avery Bradley at the two-guard spot and shooters like rookie Luke Kennard and Langston Galloway at his disposal, hoping to make his tenure with the organization not only a long one, but a fruitful one this season.