Pistons guard Richard Hamilton has shed some light on Michael Curry's brief tenure as the team's head coach.

In an interview with the Memphis Commercial Appeal, Hamilton backed Allen Iverson's claims that Curry lied to the team.

"M.C. lied to us a million times," Hamilton said of Curry. "He sat me and A.I. down one time and was like, 'I'm going to lean on both of you the whole year, just don't go to the media. Say you'll do whatever for the team and blah blah blah.' This was a week before he brought me off the bench. He lied. So I feel for what Allen said.

"I think the person that we had didn't know how to take advantage of (our roster). Instead of taking advantage of it, he killed it."

Hamilton also discredited the belief that the team was unwilling to accept Iverson as a teammate because of how they felt about Chauncey Billups.