New Houston coach Kevin McHale is looking for a No. 1 assistant and the Rockets are ready to offer $1.2 million over three years. But at least one candidate was scared off when he correctly deduced that a member of McHale's staff, Chris Finch, is GM Daryl Morey's golden boy. They're already talking about Finch, promoted recently from coaching in the D-League, as McHale's eventual successor. McHale's biggest task at the outset: Bringing law and order to a disharmonious locker room. New York Daily News