New Houston Rockets head coach Ime Udoka is supposedly set to hire Brooklyn’s Royal Ivey in the near future, along with 3 assistants from his previous personnel in Boston.
The link inbetween Udoka and one of those Celtics assistants, Ben Sullivan, was veryfirst reported in early May by Ari Alexander of KPRC, Houston’s NBC affiliate.
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Now, Alexander is reporting that an even larger name — James Borrego, previous head coach of the Charlotte Hornets — might be in play as Udoka efforts to fill his bench.
Borrego spokewith with Houston for the head training job in April priorto the Rockets chose on Udoka. Since then, Borrego has notsurprisingly passed on capacity assistant tasks to pursue other lead tasks. But with those being filled as the weeks development, he might shift his focus to a lower function.
Alexander composes:
Borrego is another name to watch, possibly as a lead assistant, a league source informed KPRC 2. Borrego has interest from Houston, Brooklyn, New Orleans and Dallas, per a league source.
Borrego has 4 seasons of experience as a head coach, leading the Hornets from 2018-2022. He likewise led the Magic for 30 videogames as an interim coach in 2