Two years after making it to the NBA Finals and one year after he was overwhelmingly selected as the team’s coach of the year, the Phoenix Suns fired Monty Williams on Saturday.

Williams won 63% of his games throughout his four successful regular seasons in Phoenix. However, the Suns’ three years of playoff anguish was probably too much to bear, especially considering that in two of those years, Phoenix had trailed by 30 points at the half in home elimination games.

In the almost three months after new owner Mat Ishbia concluded the deal that granted him ownership of the team, the Suns have made two significant moves. Ishbia approved a sensational trade in February that sent Kevin Durant to Phoenix, providing the Suns with a core that included Chris Paul, Devin Booker, Deandre Ayton, the former No. 1 selection, and Durant, which the franchise felt would be sufficient to win a championship.

At least not this year, it just didn’t work. Ayton missed the season finale, Booker and Durant appeared exhausted at the end, and Paul sustained an injury during the playoffs to add to his unlucky postseason run in terms of health.

Following the season, Williams attributed

Williams remarked, “I take that personally—not having our team prepared to play in the biggest game of the year.” “I take great pride in that, and it simply didn’t happen. I have to carefully consider everything I do in light of that.

Just four years separated Williams as the coach with the fifth-longest tenure with his current team as of Saturday. In San Antonio, Gregg Popovich has held the position since 1996; in Miami, Erik Spoelstra, since 2008; in Golden State, Steve Kerr, since 2014; and in Denver, Michael Malone, since 2015.

Phoenix joins the Raptors, Bucks, and Detroit Pistons as the four teams having an opening at the moment.

Only Kerr and Spoelstra, two of the previous nine coaches to lead a team to the NBA Finals, remain with the team they led to the championship series.

The other players—Ime Udoka of Boston, Frank Vogel of the Los Angeles Lakers, David Blatt and Tyronn Lue of Cleveland, Budenholzer, Nurse, and now Williams—have all been let go by the team.