Yet again, the Nets made a splash by not hiring a splashy candidate as their head coach.
Since Lawrence Frank was fired in November 2009 after the Nets lost their first 16 games of the season -- en route to an unthinkable 12-win campaign -- the organization has had a total of seven different head coaches, four of which were of the interim variety.
Outside of Jason Kidd, fresh off his final season as a player with the Knicks, each of the Nets' hires since then -- be it Avery Johnson or Lionel Hollins -- had experienced success with other teams in the NBA but saw their tenures come to a close for a variety of reasons.