Nets lose 10th straight home game one day after firings

The Spurs may have only 10 wins on the road this year, but that happens to match the Nets win total. He answered numerous questions by mentioning the franchise’s new Brooklyn training facility, which is scheduled to open in February, and their D-League club (the Long Island Nets), which will start competing next season. That’s something he never got to do in Portland, but it’s expected in San Antonio.

Prokhorov expressed a desire to hire two separate people as coach and GM – he described a “friendly contradiction” between the two roles – but didn’t speak about any rumored names, such as Kentucky coach John Calipari.

The Nets reassigned their general manager and fired coach Lionel Hollins on Sunday in the midst of their worst season since moving from New Jersey. “A team makes an early run at us and we can’t respond, so we spend the rest of the game digging ourselves out of a hole”. Nothing is easy in the National Basketball Association, but we knew in facing the Knicks that they were playing great, feeling good about themselves.

However, the Spurs are 5-2 against the spread in their last seven against the Nets. Are the Spurs giving up too many points?

“It’s consistency”, Aldridge told reporters after the game, via ESPN.com .

“As far as the situation now though, we have Tony Brown coaching, I’m very excited to be working with him, he’s very specific as to what he wants from us today as we walked through shootaround, he expects us to play with energy, we can’t be out there anymore just going through the motions, trying to get through a game”. Jimmy Butler had 19 points and seven assists, and Pau Gasol added 15 points and 10 rebounds. In fact, they just lost their starting point guard, Jarrett Jack, for the season with a torn ACL.

The implied motivator behind the move, according to owner Mikhail Prokhorov’s released statement, was the Nets wanted to begin a full and complete search for new leadership as quickly as possible.

One thing is clear, the Spurs need to win this game. “And of course, there is a market which makes a great pressure, a lot of attention, a very active press – thank you to all of you”. With the win, San Antonio improves to 32-6 on the season and a league-best 22-0 at home. The most pressing drama of the second half was probably the scoreboard game where fans attempted to guess reserve Nets forward Sergei Karasev’s favorite food.

Nets: Sloan made his first start since January 4, 2015, for IN against the Lakers…. He also served as an assistant with the Los Angeles Clippers under Mike Dunleavy in 2009-10, the Miwaukee Bucks in 2007-08 for Larry Krystkowiak, the Boston Celtics from 2004-07 for Doc Rivers, the Toronto Raptors in 2003-04 for Kevin O’Neill, the Detroit Pistons from 2001-03 for Carlisle, and the Portland Trail Blazers from 1997 to 2001 for Dunleavy.

The Spurs made their fourth trip to Brooklyn and the Nets had a different coach each time: P.J. Carlesimo, Jason Kidd, Hollins and now Brown. “Brown becomes the Nets” fifth coach in the last five seasons.