Former Houston Rockets coach Stephen Silas has joined Monty Williams’s staff in Detroit as an assistant, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnaroski.
Silas, who was Ime Udoka’s predecessor in Houston, sparked some speculation that he could be coming to the Celtics when he appeared at a practice in April.
Silas, the son of former Celtics forward Paul Silas, was born in Boston while his dad played for the franchise and attended college in Rhode Island at Brown University.
He was an NBA assistant for two decades before becoming the Rockets’ coach. He was fired after three seasons.