The Nets post-season awards have been few and far between. Bojan Bogdanovic made the All-Rookie Team and Tim Walsh has been named Trainer of the Year. Now comes word that the NBA Trainers Association have named Walsh's two assistants, Lloyd Beckett and Ale Oliviera, the NBA's assistant trainers of the year.
The award is for the body of work, but the events of February 1 played a large role in their recognition. That afternoon,Walsh, along with Beckett, Oliveira and team massage therapist John Rink, resuscitated assistant coach Jim Sann, 46, after he suffered a heart attack and collapsed at the Nets practice facility in East Rutherford, NJ.