The Detroit Pistons continue to round out their front office staff with the hiring of Gregg Polinsky as the director of player personnel. Polinsky spent 10 years in the same role with the Brooklyn Nets and the 10 years before that as a chief scout for the Nets.
His time with the Nets overlapped with several regimes, including that of Ed Stefasnski, Detroit’s de-facto general manager, who is in charge of building the Pistons’ front office from the ground up following the dismissal of Stan Van Gundy.
While Polinsky worked for the Nets, he was actually based out of his home in Birmingham, Alabama (which probably makes Vince Ellis happy).