{"id":434429,"date":"2023-04-26T18:31:44","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T22:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=434429"},"modified":"2023-04-26T21:13:12","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T01:13:12","slug":"rockets-owner-happy-with-udoka-in-rockets","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/rockets-owner-happy-with-udoka-in-rockets\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockets owner happy with Udoka in Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tilman Fertitta, the owner of the Houston Rockets, is more than pleased with the franchise&#8217;s new head coach &#8211; Ime Udoka and is very optimistic about the future of his NBA team.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cThe next phase is winning and being consistent. The young guys are growing.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pZAzOR12Rw\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/pZAzOR12Rw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Houston Rockets (@HoustonRockets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HoustonRockets\/status\/1651290546852225025?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 26, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>He thinks that Houston will start &#8220;phase 2&#8221; and be able to compete for the playoffs next season after missing the last 3 postseasons.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The league told me that they felt very comfortable with Udoka joining as the coach of the Rockets,&#8221; the owner said today at a news conference at the Toyota Center. &#8220;So that made me feel great after long talks with him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ime reached the NBA finals in his only season as head coach in the league with Boston Celtics and had a 51-31 regular season record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tilman Fertitta, the owner of the Houston Rockets, is more than pleased with the franchise&#8217;s new head coach &#8211; Ime Udoka and is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":433725,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17044,17543,17837],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[18346,18941,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Houston's owner feels secure with Udoka as head coach.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/434429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/434429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434429"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=434429"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=434429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}