It was 10 days ago that TASS, the big Russian news agency, quoted a Nets source that Lionel Hollins will be dismissed as coach of the Nets as soon as management can find a replacement.
TASS reporter Andrei Kartashov, a well known and respected Russian journalist, credited a single "team source familiar with the situation" for the story.
"The coach's credibility is at an end, " Kartashov quotes the "team source" as saying. "The club is already looking for a replacement."
Both ownership and management strongly denied the report, calling it "inaccurate" and "wrong.