Rockets CEO Tad Brown vehemently disputed a report Thursday that guard James Harden pushed to have Kevin McHale fired as coach or lobbied to have Dwight Howard traded, calling recent reports "disappointing" and "bothersome."
"I can tell you unequivocally being part of that management, those things never happened," Brown said. "That's frustrating. For whatever reason, it's been consistent throughout this season as we struggle on the court to try to get things where we want them to be that people continue to take shots at our guys, take shots at our team with unnamed sources routinely providing that information.