Former Detroit Pistons Coach Chuck Daly Diagnosed With Cancer

Posted on March 7, 2009

Former Pistons coach Chuck Daly has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Read more on Chuck Daly below.

Chuck Daly, 78, coached the Detroit Pistons to NBA championships in 1989 and 1990. Daly also was the coach of the 1992 gold medal-winning US Olympic squad dubbed the “Dream Team.” He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1994.

Chuck Daly “is being treated for the cancer and his family is requesting privacy.”

“My thoughts and prayers go out to Chuck and his family following today’s tough news,” Detroit president of basketball operations Joe Dumars said. “He holds a special place in our hearts and we’ll be here to support him in any way we can.”

“I wish him the best. It’s a tough cancer to get,” Golden State coach Don Nelson said. “He beat my (butt) probably more than anybody.”

Family spokesman Matt Dobek says in the release that as a coach Daly was “known as the Prince of Pessimism, right now Chuck Daly is the King of Optimism.”

We wish Chuck Daly the best in his cancer treatment.

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