Allan Houston has long been rumored to be moving higher up in the New York Knicks front office, but I don't think anyone ever suggested he'd become the general manager of an NBA Development League team first.
Darvin Ham, along with fellow former Nugget Ryan Bowen, helped George Karl and his staff last week during pre-draft workouts as a sort of tryout to replace former assistant coach Stacey Augmon. Augmon, a former player himself, went back to coach for his alma mater at UNLV.
Kevin McHale will soon be named the next head coach of the Houston Rockets and is expected to include Dave Joerger as a candidate to be his top assistant.
Chris Finch is not a candidate for the vacant Houston Rockets head coaching position, but the current head coach of the NBA D-League's Rio Grande Valley Vipers is apparently headed to the Rockets bench regardless next season.
Bruce Pearl could be headed to the D-League as the next head coach of the Maine Red Claws. This gels with my report earlier this week that the Red Claws were down to two finalists, one of which is believed to a current assistant with another NBA Development League team, but is still rather shocking.
The Boston Celtics made the first NBA Development League coaching call-up of the offseason on Friday, hiring former Maine Red Claws as the team's new Director of Player Personnel.
Former NBA player Randy Livingston will return to the Idaho Stampede as head coach next season as the two sides have to an agreement on a one-year contract extension for the 2011-12 season, the team announced Thursday.
The Houston Rockets won't consider Chris Finch, the head coach of their NBA D-League team, to replace Rick Adelman.
The Erie BayHawks announced over the weekend that they have reached an agreement with head coach Jay Larranaga on adding an additional guaranteed year on the original two-year agreement. The reason the team had to extend his contract is that Larranaga turned down a job offer to join his father, Miami Hurricanes new head coach Jim Larranaga.
The Springfield Armor have only won 20 of their 100 games since entering the NBA Development League as an expansion team in 2009, but the New Jersey Nets plan to change things quite a bit when they officially take over as owners of the team's basketball operations next month under the "hybrid affiliation" model.
