Jay

Triano

Triano had been the assistant coach for the Charlotte Hornets, who just hired Kenny Atkinson as their new head coach minutes ago, since 2018, and he’ll now join Mike Brown’s new staff in Sacramento. The Kings need all the help they can get as they try to avoid extending the longest ever playoff drought, so hopefully Triano has some answers.

Triano was initially included in Phoenix’s batch of candidates, but the fact he’s been ruled out of the process so early suggests that he never really had a chance at getting the full-time gig. After being asked to slog through another rough season and serve as the mouthpiece for a front office that likes to hide and an organization in dire need of direction, the Suns could’ve done a lot better to reward Triano than with this fate.

Triano served as Phoenix’s interim head coach to close out the year after Earl Watson was fired, but he’ll now go back to being an assistant head coach with the Hornets after the Suns decided to go in a different direction with their head coaching gig.

Triano served as the Suns’ interim coach last season, but Phoenix decided to go in a different direction earlier this month when they hired Igor Kokoskov.