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Tom Pidgeon/Getty Images https://www.detroitbadboys.com/2015/6/8/8748353/arnie-kander-resigning-detroit-pistons-trainer Retained when Stan Van Gundy restructured the medical area, Arnie Kander is now resigning from the Pistons at the end of June. By  Packey @Detroit4lyfe  Jun 8, 2015, 4:54pm EDT This is sad news. Here is the release from the Pistons: AUBURN HILLS, Mich. - The Detroit Pistons announced today that Arnie Kander has informed the organization of his intent to resign as physical therapist effective June 30. Kander has served as a member of the Pistons' training staff since 1992 when he was named the club's first strength and conditioning coach. "Arnie is an innovator who helped define the art of physical training for athletes in our league," said Tom Gores, Principal Owner of Palace Sports & Entertainment, the Detroit Pistons and Chairman and CEO of Platinum Equity. "He's been a great Piston for more than two decades, and on a personal level he...

https://today.wayne.edu//news/2016/04/07/wsu-alum-former-pistons-strength-and-conditioning-coach-continues-successful-career-6306 April 7, 2016 As the Detroit Pistons make a run at their first NBA playoff appearance since the 2007-08 season, one Wayne State University alum was on the court for the team’s last NBA Championship in 2004. Arnie Kander spent 23 seasons as the Pistons’ strength and conditioning coach, an innovator in the field who designed and developed the team’s training area in its practice facility to meet the physical conditioning and developmental needs of NBA players. And it all began with an interest in WSU’s physical therapy program. “I loved the physical therapy program because it was very neurologically based,” said Kander, who graduated in 1987 . “I was especially intrigued by the way the mind connects with the nervous system to create muscular movement. And I appreciated Mabel Sharpe, the director of the program at that time, who was a very open and direct teac...