Rockets coach Mike D’Antoni did not have to tell Eric Gordon he had decided to make Gordon the Rockets’ sixth man again. The conversation was ongoing, “a couple times here, a couple times there,” D’Antoni said, before a near joint decision to make the change.
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“I make (the decision) with him,” D’Antoni said. “He’s more important than the decision is. I make sure he’s comfortable with it and make sure that it’s OK and I get the best out of Eric. That’s more important than anything I can come up with.