Under fire NBA team makes shock coaching call

2 years ago 95

The Brooklyn Nets made Jacque Vaughn their caput manager Wednesday, promoting Steve Nash's replacement alternatively of hiring suspended Boston manager Ime Udoka.

Vaughn has gone 2-2 arsenic acting manager since the Nets and Nash parted ways connected Nov. 1. His archetypal crippled arsenic the caput manager volition beryllium against the New York Knicks this greeting (AEDT)

“Jacque’s hoops acumen, competitiveness and intimate cognition of our squad and organisation marque him the clear-cut champion idiosyncratic to pb our radical moving forward,” wide manager Sean Marks said successful a statement.

“He has a proven quality to get the champion retired of our players, clasp them accountable and play a cohesive, team-first benignant of basketball.”

After moving connected from Nash, the Nets had discussions with Udoka, who on with Vaughn had been a Nets adjunct earlier taking the Boston job.

He led the Celtics to past season's NBA Finals but was suspended for astatine slightest this play for violating squad rules by having a narration with a pistillate staffer wrong the organisation.

But the Nets decided not to spell that route, possibly unwilling to instrumentality connected much antagonistic attraction portion dealing with the fallout from Kyrie Irving's determination to station a nexus to a movie with anti-semitic worldly connected his Twitter page.

Irving volition service the 4th crippled of what volition beryllium astatine slightest a five-game suspension without wage connected Wednesday that the squad gave him for refusing to accidental helium had nary anti-semitic beliefs.

Vaughn is successful his seventh play arsenic a Nets assistant. He replaced Kenny Atkinson connected an interim ground successful March 2020, conscionable earlier the play was suspended due to the fact that of the coronavirus pandemic, and coached Brooklyn during the play restart successful Walt Disney World.

Vaughn went 7-3 successful 10 games and led the Nets to the archetypal circular of the playoffs, adjacent though they were without the injured Kevin Durant and Irving, arsenic good arsenic different cardinal players who didn't articulation them for the restart.

The Nets past hired Nash, adjacent though helium had nary coaching experience, and kept Vaughn arsenic an assistant. Nash led Brooklyn to the playoffs successful each of his 2 afloat seasons, but the squad made a alteration aft getting disconnected to a 2-5 start.

Marks said that determination was made due to the fact that the Nets weren't playing up to their expectations, but they person shown betterment nether Vaughn.

After losing astatine location to Chicago successful the archetypal game, Brooklyn won roadworthy games successful Washington and Charlotte connected back-to-back nights earlier a 96-94 nonaccomplishment successful Dallas connected Monday.

Vaughn went 58-158 with the Orlando Magic from 2012-15 successful his lone erstwhile coaching stint.

For a regular dose of the champion of the breaking quality and exclusive contented from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here!