J.B. Bickerstaff

Don’t expect the Memphis Grizzlies to join the hunt for one of the many top head coaching prospects currently available. They’re apparently in favor of retaining J.B. Bickerstaff, who took over the team after David Fizdale was fired. Speaking on a recent episode of the Dunc’d On podcast, Marc Stein of The New York Times intimated that [...]

J.B. Bickerstaff took over for Kevin McHale in November after McHale was fired in the first week of the season. Bickerstaff was able to guide the team to a playoff birth despite a tumultuous season. But a first round exit at the hands of the Warriors has the team on summer vacation, and management looking [...]

Interim Kevin McHale’s replacement J.B. Bickerstaff isn’t about to sugarcoat the Houston Rockets’ season. They are a disappointment, a failure, an upside-down mess, and he knows it. He admitted as much Wednesday night, following Houston’s latest letdown against the Portland Trail Blazers, per KPRC-TV’s Adam Wexler (h/t Bleacher Report): "We're broken. It's that simple," #Rockets [...]

Ty Lawson is mostly fine with playing among the Houston Rockets’ second-stringers. A lot is going to change in the aftermath of the Rockets’ decision to fire head coach Kevin McHale. One of those tweaks, it seems, includes moving Ty Lawson to the bench. He started in each of Houston’s first 11 games this season, [...]