How Pistons coach J.B. Bickerstaff transformed the NBA's worst team into winners

As 21-year-old Jarret Jack was going through his pre-draft workout circuit in the summer of 2005, he noticed one coach in particular had a level of passion none of his peers replicated.That coach was J.B. Bickerstaff, a second-year assistant for the Charlotte Bobcats working under his father, Bernie, the Bobcats’ head coach. Jack recalls the younger Bickerstaff — then 26 with a full head of hair — possessing the same fervor with which he now paces the sideline of Little Caesars Arena.Advertisement