Brooklyn Nets Name Steve Nash Head Coach, Jacque Vaughn Lead Assistant
The franchise announced Thursday that Steve Nash has been named the 23rd head coach in franchise history.
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The franchise announced Thursday that Steve Nash has been named the 23rd head coach in franchise history.
Cliff Robinson, born in Buffalo NY, guided UConn out from the bottom and almost helped take the Portland Trail Blazers to the top.
Norman Powell scored 29 points and the Toronto Raptors steamrolled into the Eastern Conference semifinals by routing the Brooklyn Nets 150-122 on Sunday to complete a four-game sweep.
Tyler Johnson led the Nets with 23 points. Caris LeVert scored 15, Chris Chiozza had 14 points off the bench and Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot had 10.
The seventh-seeded Nets now face a tough 2-0 hole.
Fred VanVleet scored 30 points as the defending NBA champion Toronto Raptors beat the Brooklyn Nets 134-110 in the opening game of their first-round playoff series Monday.
Lillard did it all to give Portland a spot in the NBA's first play-in series, scoring 42 points to help the Trail Blazers escape with a 134-133 victory over the Brooklyn Nets on Thursday night.
The Nets improved to 5-2 in the league's restart in Orlando with a win over the hometown Magic.
Caris LeVert had 27 points and 13 assists, and the Brooklyn Nets used the best-shooting quarter in the NBA this season to defeat the Los Angeles Clippers 129-120 on Sunday night.
The surprising Nets came to the bubble without stars Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving but continued to display plenty of fight, improving to 3-2 since coming to Florida.
Caris LeVert was held to 13 points, after scoring a career-high 51 in an overtime victory over the Celtics in March just before the suspension of the season because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Luwawu-Cabarrot finished with a career-high 26 points. Garrett Temple scored 19, Tyler Johnson and Justin Anderson each had 11 and Rodions Kurucs and Chris Chiozza had 10 apiece.
Caris LeVert scored 25 of his 34 points in the second half to help the Brooklyn Nets beat the Washington Wizards 118-110 on Sunday and move closer to a playoff berth.
Brooklyn won its last three before the stoppage, but the decimated team that returned is a shell of the one that beat the Lakers in Los Angeles in its final game.
The Nets are reportedly adding a couple of veterans to fill holes in the roster ahead of the NBA's restart later this month.