Reportedly, the Rockets won't be picking up the 4th year option on Coach Stephen Silas' contract.
The Rockets finished up the final game of the season on Sunday, beating the Wizards in Washington. It left them with a 22-60 record, their third straight finish at or near the bottom of the league. It's a team that is long on expectations and talent, but short on wins and Coach Stephen Silas is the first shoe to drop in the Rockets plans to remake the team.
In this case, the coach won't be fired. Reportedly, the team plans to simply not pick up the fourth-year option on his deal and they will move on. Silas' tenure was complicated. He was hired to coach a cadre of veterans with designs on continued deep playoff runs and potentially a championship, but that was derailed before it even got started when the team shipped off its best players, including James Harden, in Silas' first season as a coach. From there, it was three painful years of losses that was preceded by eight years of the postseason.
The team will head into the offseason with a top 10 draft pick , quite a bit of money available to spend in free agency, which weirdly could include Harden. For now, we look at the tenure of Silas and what this means for the Rockets.This would have been a tough gig for any coach, but for a first-time coach who expected to be leading a group of veterans? Ouch. Silas handled it all incredibly well and seemed to take it in stride despite the incredibly bad hand of cards he was dealt.
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