Picture: Mike D’Antoni steps down as Nets assistant; anticipated to pursue HC operate

Picture: Mike D’Antoni steps down as Nets assistant; anticipated to pursue HC operate originally regarded on NBC Sports Northwest

Mike D’Antoni is reportedly stepping down as an assistant on Steve Nash’s instructing workers with the Brooklyn Nets. He is anticipated to pursue one other head instructing different. 

The timing of his departure is attention-grabbing since there are for the time being no head instructing vacancies and he left an assistant operate on a top group.

In his lone season with the Nets, the group became as soon as the No. 2 seed within the Eastern Conference and misplaced to the Bucks within the 2d-round of the playoffs.

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The ragged Coach of the Year spent one season in Brooklyn and became as soon as recently a finalist for the Blazers head instructing operate. D’Antoni would poke on to lose out on the operate to Chauncey Billups.

D’Antoni’s previous head instructing abilities involves stints with the Nuggets, Suns, Lakers, Knicks, and Rockets.

He had stepped down as the Rockets head coach in Sept. 2020, after their 2d-round loss to the Lakers. 

In four seasons with the Rockets, the group made the Western Conference Finals twice. He went 217-102 all around the customary-season and 28-23 all around the playoffs.

D’Antoni became as soon as additionally linked to the Pacers job after leaving Houston and all over again as soon as the group parted with Nate Bjorkgren. Outdated Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle would poke on to bring collectively that job.