In his first return to Barclays Center as a head coach, Kenny Atkinson’s players want to win one for their coach.
After facing the Nets for the first time as a head coach, Kenny Atkinson admitted he was extra motivated to beat the team that fired him.
Atkinson, canned by Brooklyn back in 2020, has Cleveland off to the best start in the entire NBA, 22-4 entering Monday’s 7:30 p.m. tilt at Barclays Center.Caris LeVert and Jarrett Allen were drafted by Brooklyn and first groomed in the NBA under Atkinson. Current Cavs assistant coaches Jordan Ott, Trevor Hendry and DeMarre Carroll were all also former Nets.Nets’ dreadful defense not showing any signs of improvement“Yeah.
But when superstars Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant — the latter of whom actually spent 2019-20 rehabbing a ruptured Achilles — wanted him gone, he was gone. It came this summer in Cleveland, and he guided them to a Nov. 9 victory over the Nets to improve to 11-0.. “You’re a competitor, right? And even , I was like, ‘Man, I wanted that game,’ because you had such great experience with the team you were with, but you also want to beat them. And it’s the same with the Nets.“Wonderful experience I had, but there’s always something, a little something extra when you’ve been with a team before.
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