What's the status of the D'Antoni rockets negotiations? Is the rocket finally moving him? On May 31, it was reported that Rockets coach Mike D'Antoni had stopped negotiating with the team on contract renewal. De Shuai still planned to coach the Rockets in the 2019-20 season, which was also the last year of his existing contract. The Rockets wanted D'Antoni to stay.
D'Antoni joined the Rockets in 2016. At that time, he signed a 3 + 1 contract. The Rockets had team options in the fourth year. In recent seasons, D'Antoni led the Rockets to achieve good results. In 2017, he led the Rockets to 55 wins from 41 wins in the previous season and got the third record in the West. Under his transformation, harden played an extraordinary performance, De Shuai also won the coach of the year.
Last season, de Anthony led the team to the league's best 65 wins and reached the Western Conference finals. Last summer, the Rockets also chose to implement his fourth year (2019-20 season) contract option.
In mid May this year, the rockets and D'Antoni had a preliminary discussion on the early renewal of the contract. The 68 year old D'Antoni said at that time that he was very energetic and could continue to coach at a high level for at least three years. At the same time, de Shuai also said that he hoped to become part of the championship.
However, according to Woshen, the conversation between de Anthony and the Rockets has stalled. After the Rockets lost to the warriors in the Western semi-finals this season, the team is also facing many changes. Previously, the Rockets have informed coaches such as buzderek and Roy Rogers whose contracts have expired that the team will not renew their contracts with them, Morey and D'Antoni also made a new list of teaching assistants after their meeting.