{"id":366489,"date":"2025-12-23T10:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T10:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/366489\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T10:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T10:45:09","slug":"rick-carlisle-stepping-down-as-coaches-association-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/366489\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Carlisle stepping down as coaches association president"},"content":{"rendered":"

BOSTON — Indiana Pacers<\/a> coach Rick Carlisle will step down as president of the National Basketball Coaches Association at the end of the month, and Detroit Pistons<\/a> coach J.B. Bickerstaff will replace him.<\/p>\n

“I guess now might be a good time to announce, I decided about a year ago that this would be my last year,” Carlisle said Monday night before the Pacers’ 103-95 loss<\/a> in Boston. “This is my 20th year. My term will end at the end of this month. We’ve held our elections, and the membership has made a tremendous and phenomenal choice to succeed me, and that’s going to be J.B. Bickerstaff.”<\/p>\n

The 66-year-old Carlisle is one win from the 1,000th of his coaching career. He spoke very highly of his soon-to-be replacement.<\/p>\n

“J.B. is not only a trusted friend of mine and many, many coaches, he’s proven to be a great leader,” Carlisle said. “He’s had to take over difficult situations in his career: interim coaching positions etc., etc.<\/p>\n

“The job he did in Cleveland, taking that team from the lottery to winning in the playoffs was phenomenal. The job he’s done in Detroit the last year and a half speaks for itself. He’s a great leader and passionate guy for coaches.”<\/p>\n

Bickerstaff, 46, started his coaching career with Charlotte<\/a> as an assistant in 2004. He was an associate head coach with Memphis<\/a> until becoming interim head coach on Nov. 27, 2017. He became the Grizzlies’ head coach on May 1, 2018.<\/p>\n

In February 2020, he was promoted to Cleveland<\/a>‘s head coach after John Beilein resigned.<\/p>\n

Bickerstaff was hired as Pistons coach on July 3, 2024.<\/p>\n

“I congratulate J.B.,” Carlisle said. “This will be a life-changing experience for him. It has been for me.”<\/p>\n

Bickerstaff’s father, Bernie, 81, was a longtime NBA coach before moving into front office roles. Carlisle said he’d like to see Bernie have his place in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n

“We’re behind the scenes working trying to help Bernie be recognized by the Hall of Fame as a contributor,” Carlisle said. “There are so many ways that he influenced the game.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOSTON — Indiana Pacers coach Rick Carlisle will step down as president of the National Basketball Coaches Association…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-366489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}