On the rebound: Nets hope to resume turnaround during three-game homestand
Maybe this will be a month-to-month thing with the Brooklyn Nets.
After taking the NBA by storm in November, then forcing the firing of head coach Avery Johnson with a dismal December to forget, our borough’s first major pro sports franchise since the Dodgers fled for Los Angeles in 1957 appears to be back on track since the turn of the new year.
Johnson went from November’s Eastern Conference Coach of the Month to unemployed by late December as Brooklyn’s 11-4 start dissipated into a 14-14 mess of mediocrity. The Nets’ $100 million point guard Deron Williams cited his inability to function on all cylinders in Johnson’s offense, forward Gerald Wallace noted his teammates’ inability to shake off bad stretches during games and owner Mikhail Prokhorov left a ski vacation to inform the first coach in Brooklyn Nets history that his services were no longer needed.