DETROIT, Mich. – The Detroit Pistons announced today that Sidney Lowe and Sean Sweeney have been named assistant coaches. Additionally, DJ Bakker has been added to the basketball operations staff as a player development coach. Per team policy, terms of the contracts were not disclosed.
Lowe returns to the Detroit Pistons for the third time during his basketball coaching and playing career. He spent the 2005-06 season as lead assistant to head coach Flip Saunders and played six games for the Pistons as a point guard on the 1984-85 squad. The Washington, DC, native and former NBA point guard has spent eight years as a head coach and 12 years as an assistant coach in the NBA and NCAA, most recently serving as an assistant coach with the Washington Wizards the last two seasons.