{"id":64402,"date":"2024-02-19T11:02:44","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T16:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/?p=64402"},"modified":"2024-02-19T11:02:44","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T16:02:44","slug":"nba-news-brooklyn-nets-fire-jacque-vaughn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2024\/02\/19\/nba-news-brooklyn-nets-fire-jacque-vaughn\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA News: Brooklyn Nets Fire Jacque Vaughn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Brooklyn Nets have fired head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/v\/vaughja01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-02-19_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jacque Vaughn<\/a>, per the team. No interim head coach has been named yet.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Brooklyn Nets have relieved Jacque Vaughn of his head coaching duties. An interim head coach will be named in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brooklyn Nets (@BrooklynNets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrooklynNets\/status\/1759597931986866489?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 19, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In his final game as the Nets&#8217; head coach, the team lost by a whopping <a href=\"https:\/\/www.netsdaily.com\/2024\/2\/14\/24073497\/nets-vs-celtics-136-86-jacque-vaughn\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">50 points<\/a> to the Boston Celtics heading into All-Star Weekend.<\/p>\n<p>At the All-Star Break, the Nets are <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2023\/08\/15\/2023-24-nba-power-rankings-offseason-edition-no-20-brooklyn-nets\/\" target=\"_self\">21-33<\/a> and own the No. 11 seed in the Eastern Conference. A disappointing season so far for the Nets made Vaughn&#8217;s dismissal seem inevitable.\u00a0Vaughn had been with the Nets organization as a coach since 2016. However, he has been the permanent head coach since replacing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/n\/nashst01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-02-19_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Steve Nash<\/a> in November 2022. Vaughn <a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/5285519\/2024\/02\/19\/nets-fire-jacque-vaughn-coach\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">coached the Nets<\/a> for 129 games with a 64-65 record.<\/p>\n<p>Following Vaughn&#8217;s firing, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/m\/marksse01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-02-19_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sean Marks<\/a>, the Nets&#8217; GM, released a statement citing this as &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/news\/jacque-vaughn-out-as-nets-coach\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an incredibly difficult decision<\/a>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThis was an incredibly difficult decision, but one we feel is in the best interest of the team going forward,\u201d Nets GM Sean Marks said in a statement. \u201cJacque has represented this organization with exemplary character and class for the past eight years. The consistent positivity and passion he poured into our team daily will remain with the players and staff he interacted with throughout his tenure.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Vaughn has extensive coaching experience, so it would not be the biggest surprise if he joined another team&#8217;s coaching staff in the near future.<\/p>\n<h3>NBA News: Brooklyn Nets Fire Jacque Vaughn<\/h3>\n<h3>Why the Nets Fired Jacque Vaughn<\/h3>\n<p>Beyond the team having a disappointing record this far into the season, NBA reporter Ian Begley said the team &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IanBegley\/status\/1759598245544648827\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lost confidence in Vaughn<\/a>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nets say they have fired head coach Jacque Vaughn. Several players had lost confidence in Vaughn amid Nets\u2019 struggles, per SNY sources. Some within Nets had concerns that Vaughn could hinder their chances at landing a top player, SNY sources say.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After the team&#8217;s loss to the Celtics last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/b\/bridgmi01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-02-19_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mikal Bridges<\/a> made his <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/02\/16\/sports\/jacque-vaughn-and-nets-stars-need-to-be-on-same-page\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">frustrations known<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cYeah, you\u2019ve got to learn and fix the issue; that\u2019s pretty much what it is. You can\u2019t just let this one go and think \u2018Oh, let it drop.\u2019 No,\u2019\u2019 Bridges said. \u201cYeah, maybe if you lost towards the end, but you got beat by 50. It\u2019s not just, \u2018Let it go.\u2019 A lot of s\u2014 is not right, and you\u2019ve got to fix it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Though he may not have meant Vaughn specifically, it is clear Bridges was unhappy with the team&#8217;s performance against Boston. A change needed to be made, and it starts with firing Vaughn.<\/p>\n<h3>Last Word on the Brooklyn Nets<\/h3>\n<p>The Nets do not return to action until this Thursday against the Toronto Raptors. Brooklyn will have some time to reset during the break and make a decision for their interim head coach. If the season ended today, the Nets would not have a spot in the playoffs. However, the Nets have a talented team and could realistically make a playoff push coming out of the All-Star Break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brooklyn Nets have fired head coach Jacque Vaughn, per the team. No interim head coach has been named yet. The Brooklyn Nets have relieved Jacque Vaughn of his head coaching duties. An interim head coach will be named in the near future. \u2014 Brooklyn Nets (@BrooklynNets) February 19, 2024 In his final game as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4631,"featured_media":64410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1608,2,62,3],"tags":[302,3808,1484,202,235,1186],"class_list":["post-64402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nets","category-basketball","category-featured","category-nba","category-news","tag-boston-celtics","tag-jacque-vaughn","tag-mikal-bridges","tag-nba-news","tag-sean-marks","tag-steve-nash"],"modified_by":"Elie Deglaoui","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}