The CEO of the Houston Rockets denied a report that James Harden asked for Kevin McHale to be fired as head coach and that he also did not ask Daryl Morey to trade away Dwight Howard.
"I can tell you unequivocally, being part of that [front-office] team, those things have never happened," Tad Brown said prior to the Rockets' game against the Portland Trail Blazers. "That's frustrating, and, for whatever reason, it's been a constant throughout this season. As we struggle and as we continue to struggle a little bit on the court, trying to get things to where we want them to be, that people have continued to take shots at our guys, take shots at our team, with unnamed sources being the ones who routinely provide that information."
Brown also denied an NBA.com report stating Howard and Harden asked for each other to be traded two seasons ago after Morey told ESPN the same last week.