Dwane Casey on Monday signed a five-year deal to become the Detroit Pistons‘ next head coach.

Dwane Casey To Become Pistons’ Next Coach

No additional details on the contract have been revealed. The Toronto Raptors fired Casey, 61, after the Cleveland Cavaliers swept the team in the second round of the Eastern Conference playoffs. The Raptors finished the regular season with the top seed in the East after winning a franchise-record 59 games.

Casey — a former Minnesota Timberwolves coach — replaces Stan Van Gundy, who was dismissed in May with just one year remaining on his deal as Pistons coach and president. Detroit only reached the postseason once in Van Gundy’s four-year tenure.

The Pistons recently brought on Ed Stefanski, a former Nets general manager, as a senior adviser to spearhead their hunt for new top officials within the team’s front office.

Detroit and Toronto are the only two NBA teams that still have coaching vacancies.

The Pistons are hoping to build their team around Andre Drummond and All-Star Blake Griffin, whom Detroit acquired via a trade with the Los Angeles Clippers in February.

“They have a good team, they have a good roster and a very dynamic owner in Tom Gores, who is doing a lot of things for the city of Detroit,” Casey said of the Pistons. “It’s a little bit more than just coaching basketball … that appealed to me also and to my family. Doing a lot of stuff in the community, rebuilding downtown, helping out Flint in their water situation — so just a lot more things involved, more than just basketball.”

Casey is widely considered to be a strong contender to win the NBA Coach of the Year Award. He was fined during the 2016 playoffs for criticizing game officials.

The Pistons haven’t won a playoff game since 2008.

Free-agent center fielder Lorenzo Cain has agreed to a five-year, $80 million contract with the Milwaukee Brewers.

Lorenzo Cain signs with Brewers news

The deal came less than an hour after Milwaukee acquired Christian Yelich in exchange for four prospects in a trade with the Miami Marlins.

“We’ve got a chance to be pretty good,” Cain told MLB.com on Thursday night. “I’m looking forward to doing whatever I can to help. It would seem we’re a playoff contender.”

Cain, 31, was drafted by the Brewers in 2004 and debuted with them in 2010, a year before he was sent to Kansas City as part of the Zack Greinke trade. He’s been with the Royals since, hitting .290/.342/.421 with speed.

“The chance to come home like that, so to speak, meant a lot,” Cain added. “That’s the team that drafted me, developed me. I got my first hit with them, my first home run. It means a lot to go back there. I want to win.”

Cain’s new contract is the longest term and largest payout of any  MLB free-agent deal this offseason. It surpasses Carlos Santana’s three-year guaranteed $60 million contract with the Philadelphia Phillies in December.

The deal includes no-trade protection and award bonuses of $300,000 for each All-Star team Cain makes and $500,000 for an MVP Award, the source said.

Cain was drafted by the Brewers out of Madison County High School in Florida in 2004 but didn’t start with Milwaukee until 2010.

After joining the Royals in 2015, Cain finished third in American League MVP voting and was a key member of Kansas City’s World Championship team that year.

Cain hit .289 with 56 home runs and 308 RBIs in 713 games with the Royals, whose fans he thanked for their support.

“I absolutely love Royals fans,” Cain said. “They loved on me for so many years. Just thinking of them brings a smile to my face. Man, I’m really going to miss them. Just all the support they gave me. It was incredible. We all went through so much together.”

Last season, Cain was an AL Gold Glove finalist in center field along with Toronto’s Kevin Pillar and Minnesota’s Byron Buxton, who won the award.

Among the other teams that had voiced interest in Cain before he signed with the Brewers were the Chicago Cubs, Los Angeles Dodgers, San Francisco Giants, Cleveland Indians and Toronto Blue Jays.

The Carolina Panthers signed defensive tackle Kawann Short to a five-year contract on Monday, according to the team’s official website.

Kawann Short (DT) Signs Five-Yera Deal with Panthers

NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport reported that the deal is worth $80.5 million with $35 million guaranteed. The pact averages $16 million per season, which puts Short’s deal value in the vicinity of Buffalo Bills defensive tackle Marcell Dareus, and slightly behind the giant salaries of Ndamukong Suh ($19.06 million) and Fletcher Cox ($17.1 million), according to ESPN Stats & Information.

Contract website Spotrac also noted that Short’s first two years, in which the 28-year-old will receive $40 million per Rapoport, will make the defensive tackle the third-highest-paid defensive player in the NFL after Von Miller and Olivier Vernon.

Short, who has played with the Panthers since 2013 when he was drafted as a second-round pick out of Purdue, was hit with a franchise tag in February. The 2015 Pro Bowler is the second Carolina defenseman to be franchise-tagged, after cornerback Josh Norman also received that treatment last year, although Norman’s tag was rescinded. Norman then signed with the Washington Redskins, and the Panthers’ young secondary suffered.

“I knew it wasn’t going to turn it out like [Norman’s situation] because I knew I was either going to sign the [franchise] tender or get an extension,” Short said Monday on a teleconference. “That whole Josh Norman situation, that is still my guy and I talk to him a lot, but I knew it wasn’t going to go that route.”

Panthers general manager Dave Gettleman insisted that Short was more valuable.

“KK has been very important to what we’ve been able to accomplish on defense,” Gettleman told the team’s official website Monday. “In 2013, when we drafted KK, I thought he was the best pass-rushing defensive tackle in the draft, and he’s been able to develop into one of the top young defensive tackles in the NFL. Off the field, KK is a top-notch young man and great representative of our team. I’m absolutely thrilled that we were able to get this deal done.”

Carolina coach Ron Rivera also praised the defensive tackle.

“KK consistently affects the quarterback and is strong against the run,” said Rivera. “The mismatches he creates for us on defense force opponents to be aware of him at all times and give us an edge along the defensive line. He’s a great player, but also a quality young man who has the respect of his teammates in the locker room. He’s everything we’re looking for in a Panther.”

The pact certainly seems like a smart decision. Short, who has never missed a game in his NFL career, recorded 17 sacks over the last two seasons as an interior rusher, and letting him become a free agent would not have helped the Panthers at all.

Although Gettleman has been lauded for the way’s he’s rebuilt Carolina’s roster, he has also angered some of his fans for his hard-line stance on contracts. The GM has often stated the Panthers can’t afford to be shopping “at Tiffany’s.”

“It means everything just to put myself in this position,” Short said. “It comes with hard work and actually the teammates that I have. And believing in God was one of the biggest things as well.

“Just having that drive to be better. That’s what it came down to.”

In his career, Short has compiled 22 sacks, 179 tackles, six forced fumbles and five fumble recoveries. The year he was selected to the Pro Bowl (2015) was the year the Panthers finished the regular season 15-1 and reached the Super Bowl, where they lost to the Denver Broncos.

River had formerly stated Short was “too important of a player” for the Panthers not to re-sign.

The 6-foot-3, 315-pound defensive tackle seems to hold the team in equally high regard, partly for giving him a chance when they drafted him in 2013 when other teams passed on him.

“They believed in me from day one,” said Short.

The Panthers attempted to sign Short to a long-term contract last year after he made the Pro Bowl, although the defenseman was seeking a deal worth around $17 million per season. No agreement was reached because Carolina was offering pacts in the $13 million to $15 million range.

CHARLOTTE, NC – JANUARY 17: Kawann Short #99 of the Carolina Panthers reacts after defeating the Seattle Seahawks 31-24 at the NFC Divisional Playoff Game at Bank of America Stadium on January 17, 2016 in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Photo by Grant Halverson/Getty Images)