The tough luck that has clouded the Nets franchise from East Rutherford, N.J., to Brooklyn will not lift easily. How else do you rationalize just when the Nets appeared to be changing the fortunes of their franchise, injuries have decimated the club to a point assistant coaches could be asked to suit up for practice?
“Prigioni still thinks he’s an NBA player,” Nets head coach Kenny Atkinson said of assistant Pablo Prigioni, whose professional career spanned 20-plus years from the Spanish League to the NBA. “He might be right.”
Atkinson, speaking before Monday night’s game against the Bucks, chuckled a bit.