Jacque Vaughn, who joined the Brooklyn Nets in 2016 as an assistant coach and had two stints as an interim head coach before finally securing the top job a year ago, has been fired.
The dismissal, announced early Monday morning, came five days after the Nets lost to the Boston Celtics by 50 points, the second biggest margin in franchise history.
After Adrian Wojnarowski, Shams Charania and Chris Hayes all reported the dismissal, the Nets put out a statement from Sean Marks, who had hired Vaughn as one of his first acts as GM and had been Vaughn’s biggest advocate.