Troy Weaver has identified two main targets in his search for the Pistons next head coach.
The Pistons are interviewing former UConn head coach Kevin Ollie, according to The Athletic, and Bucks assistant Charles Lee, according to ESPN.
Ollie, 50, was Jim Calhoun's hand-picked successor at UConn in 2012 and led the Huskies to the national championship in 2014, before he was fired in 2018 amid an NCAA investigation into program violations.
A former NBA guard who played for 12 different teams over a 13-year career, Ollie has spent the past two years as head of coaching and basketball development for Overtime Elite, a professional bridge league to the NBA that features some of the top players in the country ages 16 to 20.
Lee, 38, has been an assistant under Mike Budenholzer in Milwaukee since 2018, helping the Bucks win five division titles and an NBA title in that span. He doesn't have any head coaching experience, but he's long been viewed as a rising name in the industry and he has the youth to relate to the Pistons' roster.
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The Pistons are also expected to seriously consider Raptors assistant Adrian Griffin and Heat assistant Chris Quinn, per ESPN.
Griffin, 48, played 10 years in the NBA before retiring in 2008 and moving into coaching. He's been an NBA assistant ever since and helped the Raptors win the Finals in 2019. Quinn, 39, had a brief NBA playing career and has been an assistant under Erik Spoelstra since 2014.
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