Kristaps Porzingis is Too Much for the Charlotte Hornets to Handle. NY Beats CHA, 102-94. by Jerry Stephens

The Houston Rockets have fired their head coach, Kevin McHale, after five seasons with the team. They have started the season with a poor start and have a record of (4-7) on the year. They have been disappointing to start the year and felt like it was time to move on from McHale.

Kevin McHale had a record of 193-130 in his five seasons with the Houston Rockets and they are coming off of a season where they made it to the conference finals where they eventually lost to the world champion Golden State Warriors.

The Rockets have named assistant coach, J.B. Bickerstaff, their interim coach for the remainder of the season. He will have a difficult task ahead of him to turn this team around but the talent is definitely there.

The story was first reported by Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo Sports and in the report he named three potential head coaches for the Houston Rockets in the future. He named Tom Thibodeau, Jeff Van Gundy, and Charlotte Hornets head coach, Steve Clifford, who will be a coaching free agent this summer as potential candidates for the Rockets head coaching job.

Woj said that, “Another strong candidate with Houston ties, Charlotte’s Steve Clifford, could be a free agent this summer.”

There has been many rumors surrounding Steve Clifford and if he will return to the Charlotte Hornets next year. Many want him gone this season and if the team fails to make the playoffs, he very well might be out as the Hornets’ head coach for the future.

In three seasons with the Charlotte Hornets, Steve Clifford has a record of 81-94 and has led the team to the playoffs once. This will be a make or break year for Steve Clifford. He is a good coach has turned around the Charlotte Hornets franchise on the court. If they make the playoffs this year, I would expect him to return to Charlotte but watch out if he is a free agent because he might want to leave to coach Houston instead.

The Rockets head coaching vacancy will be a huge job opening this summer and many viable coaching will want the job. Clifford has Houston ties in the past and that is the reason that Woj linked him to the coaching vacancy.

There is nothing imminent right now and it is just a rumor but it is something to watch for in the future because as we all know, anything Woj reports usually comes true so the Charlotte Hornets head coach, Steve Clifford, is a likely candidate for the Houston Rockets head coaching position.