Jay Triano has been kicked upstairs by the Toronto Raptors.
The team announced Wednesday it is declining to pick up an option year on Triano's contract as the team's head coach and he will become “a consultant to the basketball team as a special assistant to the president and general manager.”
Triano, the 52-year-old native of Niagara Falls, Ont., was due to make just over $2 million as the head coach next season, which would have been his third full year after replacing Sam Mitchell as the seventh head coach in the 16-year history of the franchise.