Chuck Daly
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"Charles Jerome "Chuck" Daly" was an American basketball head coach. He led the Detroit Pistons to consecutive National Basketball Association (NBA) NBA Finals/Championships in 1989 NBA Finals/1989 and 1990 NBA Finals/1990, and the 1992 United States men's Olympic basketball team ("The Dream Team") to the gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics.

Daly is a two-time Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inductee, being inducted in 1994 for his individual coaching career, and in 2010 was posthumously inducted as the head coach of the "Dream Team". The Chuck Daly Lifetime Achievement Award is named after him.

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They allow me to coach them.

There's no change in his game no matter who he plays for.

He always told me that Lonnie was the best agent he ever dealt with. Lonnie worked out contracts for me when I was in Detroit, New Jersey and Orlando, and I never worried that we'd have problems with management afterwards.

It's hard to say. I would say they're at least the equal of last year. I think they're much, much deeper. I think they're capable offensively of doing some things that maybe last year's team wasn't. It's an intriguing team.

The important thing is to get the right players on the team so Mike can be successful.

I think the real mission is to get the right people on this team so Mike can be successful, ... Mike has done this for a long time, and I'm confident he will bring us back a gold medal.