New York Knicks: Five reasons to love the Scott Perry hiring

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AUBURN HILLS, MI – JUNE 15: (L-R) Head Coach Larry Brown, Richard Hamilton #32, Ben Wallace #3, Chauncey Billups #1 and Rasheed Wallace #30 of the Detroit Pistons pose with the championship trophy after Game Five of the 2004 NBA Finals on June 15, 2004 at The Palace of Auburn Hills in Auburn Hills, Michigan. Copyright 2004 NBAE. (Photo by Andrew D. Bernstein/NBAE via Getty Images) /

4. The Detroit Pistons Years

Over the past 10 years, Scott Perry has worked for the Seattle SuperSonics, Orlando Magic, and Sacramento Kings. He’s helped those organizations take advantage of the NBA Draft, and has earned the respect of his peers for his work ethic and attention to detail.

No tenure of Perry’s career offers more reason for intrigue, however, than the success he experienced with the Detroit Pistons.

Perry worked on the staff assembled by former Pistons general manager Joe Dumars. During his tenure, Detroit became one of the most consistently successful and criminally underrated teams in NBA history.

Between 2002-03 and 2006-07—Perry’s last season in Detroit—the Pistons won an NBA championship and made two NBA Finals appearances.

Nearly as impressive is the fact that Detroit made six consecutive Eastern Conference Finals appearances between 2003 and 2008. One of the trips postdated Perry, but it was still a team that he helped assemble—a team of overlooked and generally discarded players.

Based on the decisions that Perry influenced at his future stops, it’s clear that he learned strong principles on how to build a champion in Detroit.

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