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HOUSTON - Houston Rockets head coach Imme Udoka announced his new assistant coaches for the 2023-2024 NBA season.
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In a press release from the Rockets, among the new assistant coaches are Ben Sullivan, Royal Ivey, Garrett Jackson, Tiago Splitter, Cam Hodges, and Mike Moser.
A majority of the staff have been people Coach Udoka has worked with in the past.
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Sullivan, for example, was the assistant coach for the Boston Celtics for the past two seasons, including on Udoka's staff in 2021-22.
Likewise, Ivey comes from Brooklyn, where he spent the last three seasons as a coach, where Udoka was on Steve Nash's staff from 2020-2021. Around the same year, Splitter was an assistant coach who worked alongside Udoka.
Hodges was a coaching associate for the Los Angeles Clippers for the past three seasons after serving as player development coach for Philadelphia in 2019-20 when Udoka was an assistant.
Jackson, meanwhile, spent the past two seasons as a player enhancement coach for the Celtics. Moser was also a player enhancement coach for Boston last season before serving as an assistant coach for the Oregon Ducks women's team in 2021-22, where he earned All-Pac 12 Honorable Mention.