The Nets’ coaching team endured a brain drain past offseason that proved highly-priced. It could materialize once again this offseason, due to the fact assistant Steve Clifford is in the photograph for the Kings’ head-coaching work.
Clifford isn’t a total-time assistant mentor for the Nets, he’s a expert. Even now, he has supplied an expert veteran sounding board for head mentor Steve Nash, who just wrapped an up-and-down drama-filled second time on the occupation. Clifford interviewed Sunday in California a resource told The Article, and is continue to considered to be in the combine for the task in Sacramento.
“We’ll see if everyone has a work option to be a head [coach],” Nash said following the Nets’ initially-round playoff sweep at the hands of Boston. “But I genuinely liked doing the job with my team. They’ve been unbelievable at staying together this year.”
Recent Warriors assistant Mike Brown and previous Golden State coach and latest ESPN analyst Mark Jackson are amid the finalists for the Kings work, in accordance to ESPN.
The 60-12 months-old Clifford was the head coach for Charlotte from 2013-18, and for Orlando from 2018-21, prior to signing on as a Nets consultant. He was also a Knicks assistant from 2001-03.
Mike D’Antoni had been on the Kings’ interview list and is at present in the blend for the Hornets’ opening in accordance to ESPN. D’Antoni was component of the Nets’ mind drain previous summer months. D’Antoni, who coached Nash with both the Suns and Lakers, also was a head coach with the Knicks and Rockets right before joining Nash’s initial personnel as a de facto offensive coordinator for a yr.
Ime Udoka served a related function on the other finish of the court for the Nets’ 2020-21 workforce, which came a Kevin Durant toe (and Kyrie Irving and James Harden injuries) absent from beating the eventual champion Bucks in the Japanese Conference semifinals.
But D’Antoni stepped away following the time and Udoka landed the Boston head coaching position. Harden missed D’Antoni’s pick-and-roll abilities, and Udoka guided the Celtics earlier the Nets and his previous manager.
The hideous first-spherical exit introduced Nash and his personnel beneath scrutiny, even though Durant stated he fully expects the coach to be back again. Nash thinks so much too.
“Yeah I beloved carrying out this and really like these men, like my staff, adore all the departments,” Nash explained. “Really have a terrific performing atmosphere, really savored it and want to carry on carrying out it.”
D’Antoni is also predicted to satisfy with the Hornets, along with former Nets head mentor Kenny Atkinson (now a Warriors assistant), ex-Nets assistant Sean Sweeney (now a Mavericks assistant and just one of the game’s growing youthful minds) and the Bucks’ Darvin Ham.
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