Pistons assistant coach Rex Kalamian to head Armenian national team

Updated: Jan. 20, 2022, 9:45 p.m
By Lauren Williams | lwilliams@mlive.com

Detroit Pistons assistant coach Rex Kalamian will get another chance to be a head coach. Per ESPN, Kalamian agreed to be the head coach of the Armenian National Team.

Kalamian will continue his duties with the Pistons and will coach the Armenian National team during the offseason.

The first-year Pistons assistant has gotten some experience in the lead chair over the course of this season. He has filled in for head coach Dwane Casey on a few occasions so far. He picked up his first win as a head coach when the Pistons downed the Utah Jazz 126-116 on Jan. 3.

Kalamian has been an NBA assistant for 25 years, including stops with the Denver Nuggets, Minnesota Timberwolves, Oklahoma City Thunder, Los Angeles Clippers, Sacramento Kings and Toronto Raptors.

He had a personal connection to Armenia. He told ESPN that his grandmother fleed the Armenian genocide as a teenager and came to the United States and that both his parents are Bronx-born Armenian-Americans.

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