Former Pistons big man John Shumate was hired as an assistant coach by the Phoenix Suns on Monday. Shumate, who had two stints with the Pistons (1977-78 and 1979-80), joins Bill Cartwright, Dan Majerle and Igor Kokoskov on coach Alvin Gentrys staff. 498 2008-12-10T11:21:03-05:00 New Suns assistant coach has Piston ties 3371 --- [] 2009-08-26T01:00:00-04:00 488 Detroit Free Press http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=rss16&mime=xml 3 21 2010-02-08T23:09:40-05:00 http://www.freep.com/article/20090826/SPORTS03/908260350/1051/rss16