• College: Loyola Marymount.
• NBA playing career: In seven seasons with San Diego Rockets (1968-70), Portland Trail Blazers (1970-73), Chicago Bulls (1973-74), New Orleans Jazz (1974-75) and Kansas City-Omaha Kings (1975), averaged 7.9 points, 3.5 assists and 2.4 rebounds per game.
• NBA head coaching career: 16 seasons with Trail Blazers (1988-94), Golden State Warriors (1995-97) and Sacramento Kings (1998-2006).
• Coaching record: 752-481 (.610).
• Coaching highlights: Took Trail Blazers to 1990 and 1992 NBA Finals; guided teams to 14 playoff appearances and four division titles.
Adelman reaches deal to coach Rockets
Copyright 2007 Houston Chronicle
Rick Adelman, the only candidate the Rockets pursued, agreed to terms Monday on a contract to become the team's next coach, a person with knowledge of the Rockets' decision-making said.
Adelman will fly to Houston today and be introduced on Wednesday.
"The Rockets organization will get an outstanding coach," said Hall of Fame guard Clyde Drexler, who played for Adelman with the Portland Trail Blazers. "I think he's the guy to get them over the top."
After a series of meetings with Rockets owner Leslie Alexander and general manager Daryl Morey on May 11 and May 12, Adelman was the Rockets' choice to succeed Jeff Van Gundy less than a week after the team's first-round playoff loss to the Utah Jazz. Van Gundy was fired after four season as Rockets coach on Friday.
"Rick is a really good coach and a better guy," Van Gundy said. "I think he'll really do well."
Morey, Alexander and Adelman were not available for comment.
Adelman, 60, is 752-481 in 16 seasons as an NBA coach. He has a 70-68 postseason record. He led the Trail Blazers to the NBA Finals in 1990 and 1992 and advanced to the Western Conference Finals in 1991 with the Trail Blazers and 2002 with the Sacramento Kings.
With a 752-481 record, he will have the best winning percentage (.610) of any Rockets coach. He is 70-68 in the post-season.
Drafted by the Rockets in the second round of the 1968 Draft, he went to the Trail Blazers in the 1970 expansion draft before the Rockets moved from San Diego to Houston.
Adelman will join Rudy Tomjanovich as the only former Rockets players to become a Rockets coach. The Rockets will be the third of the four teams for which Adelman played that he also will have coached, having also coached and played for the Blazers and Kings. (He also briefly played for the Chicago Bulls in a seven-year playing career.)
With the Trail Blazers and his first Kings teams, Adelman had faced-paced, high scoring teams. His later teams, while still among the NBA's top scoring teams, were more halfcourt oriented, using many cuts and screens in a variation of the Princeton offense.
His first seven Sacramento teams were among the top three scoring teams in the NBA, leading the league in scoring his first three seasons with the Kings. His 2001-02 team, which advanced to Game 7 of the Western Conference finals, won 61 games, by an average of 7.6 points per game. He was fired after the 2005-06 season when the Kings went 44-38, losing in six games to the San Antonio Spurs in the first round of the playoffs.
His best season as a coach might have been with the 1990-91 Trail Blazers, when Portland went 63-19.
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