Can you fail when you are trying to fail? If you’re trying to fail, and you succeed, haven't you succeeded?
It’s a paradox. It’s the type of question that everyone involved with a tanking NBA team has to ask themselves. When everything is going according to plan. there’s a sense of uneasiness. What happens next?
That’s the question that Rafael Stone needs to answer this summer definitively. Pivotal decisions lie ahead for the Houston Rockets General Manager. If he makes the wrong ones, it could cost him his job.
The coaching decision
Stephen Silas was the first casualty of the tanking process.