The Brooklyn Nets have been struggling for a good chunk of this season despite sporting a young and hungry roster that features some intriguing talent.
They’re in 11th place in the Eastern Conference with a 21-33 record, and they have lost 23 of their last 31 games ever since they peaked at 13-10 in mid-December.
The team fired head coach Jacque Vaughn on Monday, and has replaced him with assistant Kevin Ollie on an interim basis.
GM Sean Marks is once again conducting a coaching search, and despite rumors that he may be on the hot seat, he doesn’t seem to be feeling the pressure, per ClutchPoints.
“Joe [Tsai] and I will make this decision and he has given me no reason to believe that I won’t be able to make that decision,” Marks said about the current head coaching search.
"Joe [Tsai] and I will make this decision and he has given me no reason to believe that I won't be able to make that decision."
Nets GM Sean Marks on if he feels he’s on the hot seat as he begins his 4th coaching search 🧐
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— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPoints) February 20, 2024
Marks has been the Nets’ general manager since the 2015-16 season, and this is the fourth time he will be looking for a new permanent head coach.
For the 2020-21 season, when the Kevin Durant-Kyrie Irving experiment began in earnest, Brooklyn hired Hall of Fame point guard Steve Nash, who had never been a head coach before, to serve in that role.
Nash was unseated early last season after failing to get them to the Eastern Conference Finals and was replaced by Vaughn.
The Nets have a couple of studs in Mikal Bridges and Cam Thomas, as well as the talented but enigmatic Ben Simmons, who has played a grand total of 54 games for them since being traded there in February 2022.
Unfortunately, they lack draft capital after exhausting a good amount of it in order to acquire James Harden a few years ago.
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