Suns fire head coach Earl Watson just 3 games into NBA season
The Phoenix Suns fired coach Earl Watson just three games into the NBA season.
The Suns announced the firing Sunday night after hours of meetings at the team’s headquarters.
Assistant coach Jay Triano, a former head coach of the Raptors, was named interim head coach. Triano was an assistant at Portland before coming to Phoenix last year.
Watson was promoted from assistant to interim head coach of the Suns after Jeff Hornacek was fired Feb. 1, 2016. The interim tag was removed April 19 of that year. With an extremely young team, the Suns struggled under Watson. He compiled a 33-85 record. Watson’s only full season was 2016-17, when the team went 24-58.