Mike D’Antoni

Houston Rockets head coach Mike D’Antoni remains hospitalized since Friday, but has improved enough from his intestinal virus to hope to be released today. D’Antoni has missed the Rockets’ last two games due to the illness. The 2017 NBA Coach of the Year hopes to be released from the hospital Tuesday but won’t return for [...]

LeBron James wants Luke Walton replaced, so the Lakers should fire him and get on with it. After poaching Walton from the defending champion Golden State Warriors, the Lakers are free to do whatever they want, including what Lakers President Magic Johnson and star player LeBron James want, which seems to be moving from Luke [...]

The Houston Rockets lost to the Utah Jazz on Wednesday night, but Carmelo Anthony may have won…a spot in the starting lineup. Here’s what head coach Mike D’Antoni had to say after the game, via The Athletic’s Kelly Iko: [tweet https://twitter.com/KellyIkoNBA/status/1055287571415212033] We should probably emphasize the “nothing is set in stone” aspect of this statement. [...]

As far as the pivotal Western Conference Finals victories go, the Houston Rockets’ Game 5 win over the Golden State Warriors on Thursday night ended on a pretty somber note. Sure, the Rockets are up 3-2 in the series, one win away from knocking off the reigning champs and earning a trip to the NBA [...]

Mike D’Antoni has been around the block as an NBA head coach, with stints with the Phoenix Suns, New York Knicks, Los Angeles Lakers and now the Houston Rockets. He has coached some of the greatest players of the past 15 years in the NBA including Kobe Bryant, Steve Nash, Dwight Howard, Carmelo Anthony, Amar’e [...]

The Houston Rockets have been playing good basketball as of late after a mini swoon a few weeks back, but they are still not playing at their highest level without their resident MVP candidate James Harden. Harden has missed the past six games with a grade 2 hamstring sprain, the team has gone 4-2 in [...]

Houston Rockets head coach Mike D’Antoni has high hopes for Clint Capela. Really high hopes. Speaking with ESPN.com’s Tim MacMahon, D’Antoni indicated that the 23-year-old from Switzerland has the chance to be the best center in the league, bar none: “To me, it’s just a matter of time,” Houston coach Mike D’Antoni said. “I’ll be [...]

James Harden is about to get his superstar partner. Or so Mike D’Antoni thinks. As the Houston Rockets’ head coach told USA Today‘s Sam Amick: “Now he’s getting back on the floor, where he’s now shooting foul shots, shooting a little bit. He’s been working his butt off. He’s been boxing all the time, and doing [...]

So much for the Houston Rockets being able to limit James Harden’s minutes. Part of what made Chris Paul’s arrival so appealing is what it meant for the team’s floor balance. Harden looked gassed by the end of Houston’s second-round loss to the San Antonio Spurs last year. Teaming up with Paul meant he wouldn’t [...]

Why, yes, the relationship between Mike D’Antoni and Carmelo Anthony during their brief time together with the New York Knicks really was that bad. So bad, D’Antoni quit. And he clearly, and finally, admitted as much to ESPN The Magazine‘s Tim Keown: In New York in 2012, after Anthony said the team needed to choose between him [...]