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Avery Johnson fired

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The Brooklyn Nets have fired coach Avery Johnson, league source tells Yahoo! Sports.
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#49 ·
Sloan and Deron were having regular shouting matches. They got into in the locker room at the half and a couple of nights later Sloan resigned. Not well enough informed to say exactly why, but the suspicion is that either the front office chose Deron over Sloan or Sloan decided he had had enough of it.

Of course Sloan has been in a lot of shouting matches, some with better players than Deron. Either way it is pretty clear that Deron has a lot of responsibility for the manner in which Sloan resigned. If he had been behaving in a more ideal fashion Sloan would not have resigned in the middle of the season.
 
#50 ·
Damn I had to really dig in Patches' 'Is Jerry Sloan Fireproof' to find this.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=aw-sloanretiring021011

After repeated clashes with star point guard Deron Williams and a belief he had become undermined with ownership, Jerry Sloan resigned as the Utah Jazz coach after 23 seasons, league sources told Yahoo! Sports.

The increasingly contentious relationship between Sloan and Williams boiled over when they clashed at halftime of a loss to the Chicago Bulls on Wednesday night. The showdown between Sloan and Williams became so heated on Wednesday, at least two Jazz players feared that the coach and star could come to blows – even though the confrontation ended before reaching that point.
Sloan, 68, had agreed to a one-year contract extension in the past week but his growing frustration became public after a long meeting with Jazz general manager Kevin O’Connor following the team’s loss to the Bulls in Salt Lake City.
Sloan, the NBA’s longest-tenured coach, and his longtime assistant, Phil Johnson, resigned together on Thursday.
Sloan’s relationship with Williams had grown progressively worse over the course of the season, league sources said, and the coach had tired of dealing with the team’s best player. The frustration escalated on Wednesday night when Sloan and Williams clashed in the locker room at halftime.
“He decided right there in halftime that he was done,” a league source told Yahoo! Sports. “He felt like ownership was listening more to Williams than they were to him anymore. He was done.”
One source said Sloan had become tired of Williams “blaming everything on everyone else.” Still, Williams, who can become a free agent in the summer of 2012, has remained the Jazz’s best and most consistent player after the departure of several key teammates. Williams has always had a reputation for wanting to win badly and being a strong leader.
 
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#54 ·
I'm not surprised. The Nets organization deluded itself into that this team was a contender and sold that and the move to Brooklyn to people in the borough.

The Nets have been playing .500 ball while dealing with injuries to most all of their starters and incorporating new key players. Anyone who came into this season thinking "NBA Finals or Bust" for the Nets was fooling themselves. Brooklyn has some high-priced talent and a couple of borderline all-stars, but no one who's proven capable of being a solid No. 2 on a good team.
 
#65 ·
Bryon Scott coached a franchise that wasn't relevant since Dr. J's ABA days to back-to-back NBA Finals ... and his reward was getting fired. The Nets hired Lawrence Frank, who promptly ran the Nets franchise into the ground.
 
#66 ·
David Blatt as the Nets coach could be awsome.
 
#71 ·
Nets will get exactly what they deserve... mediocrity. Which is what that roster screams. Only New Yorkers thought/think this team is anywhere close to contention. Deron ain't that dude and the rest of the roster is not that good.
 
#93 ·
Well, the story was he stopped running practices and let the assistants handle that.

One of the good stories was that the staff would give Scott game tapes to look at, but they'd make sure that the tapes didn't start at the beginning, so they could check if Byron had actually played the tapes. Tapes came back unmoved from starting point (which was not the beginning of the tape) unwatched.

Byron liked to golf, Frank ran the defense, Eddie Jordan ran the offense and Jason Kidd ran the team.
 
#92 ·
What always made Scott stand out to me was his demeanor and his work ethic.
After a 45-point shellacking at the hands of the Memphis Grizzlies in December 2003, Kidd reportedly ripped the coaching staff to shreds, claiming the hardcore practices and shoot-arounds were more befitting of a team coming off a horrendous losing season in 1999, not back-to-back appearances in the NBA’s “big dance.”
http://thebrooklyngame.com/byron-scott-top-44-nets-of-all-time/
 
#96 · (Edited)
Im going to go with what knicks4life posted (do you have him blocked or something? because it's just a few posts up but you kept going despite your BS chips pretty much being called in right there) - his post has a source (some guy named Rod Thorn, you're a Nets fan so maybe you can tell me who that is since I dont follow them and know nothing about the situation)
 
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