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Brooklyn Nets The Brooklyn Nets are an American professional basketball team based in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The Nets compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference. The ...

are an American professional

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team based in the

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. They are a member of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference in the

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(NBA). The team plays its home games at the Barclays Center. The franchise was founded as the New Jersey Americans in 1967, and was one of the eleven original American Basketball Association (ABA) teams. In its second ABA season, Arthur Brown, the team owner, moved the team to Long Island and renamed it the New York Nets. The team won ABA championships in 1974 and 1976. When the ABA merged with the NBA in 1976, the Nets were one of four ABA teams admitted into the NBA. The team was moved to the

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; after the 1976–77 NBA season, the team was renamed the New Jersey Nets. Since they joined the NBA, the Nets have won 4 divisional championships, 2 conference championships and appeared in the

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16 times. The Nets moved to Brooklyn in 2012, and now play as the Brooklyn Nets. There have been 24

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es for the Nets franchise. The franchise's first head coach was

Max Zaslofsky Max "Slats" Zaslofsky (December 7, 1925 – October 15, 1985) was an American professional basketball player and coach. He was first-team All- NBA in the league's first four seasons. In the 1947–48 BAA season, at 21 years of age, he led the BAA ...

, who led the team for two seasons.

Kevin Loughery Kevin Michael Loughery (born March 28, 1940) is an American former professional basketball player and coach. Career biography Loughery spent 11 seasons in the National Basketball Association (1962–1973), almost nine of them with the Baltimor ...

is the only Nets coach to have led the team to a championship; the Nets won ABA championships in 1974 and 1976 during his tenure. Loughery is the franchise's all-time leader in regular season games coached (615) and wins (297);

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is the franchise's all-time leader in regular season

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(.648).

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is the franchise's all-time leader in playoff games coached (40) and wins (25), as well as playoff-game winning percentage (.625). Chuck Daly and

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were selected as two of the

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. Daly, Brown and

Lou Carnesecca Luigi P. Carnesecca (born January 5, 1925) is an American retired college basketball coach at St. John's University. Carnesecca also coached at the professional level, leading the New York Nets of the American Basketball Association for three sea ...

are the only Nets coaches to have been inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame as coaches. Zaslofsky,

York Larese York Bruno Larese (July 18, 1938 – February 6, 2016) was an American basketball player and coach. Amateur career Larese was born in New York City and attended St. Ann's Academy (now Archbishop Molloy High School) in Queens. A 6'4" (1.93 m) gua ...

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, John Calipari, Tom Barrise, and Kiki Vandeweghe spent their entire coaching careers with the Nets/Americans.

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Coaches

''Note: Statistics are correct as of the firing of Steve Nash on November 1, 2022.'' File:Larry Brown 2005.jpg, Larry Brown was the head coach for the Nets from to . File:Chuck Daly.jpg, alt=Headshot of a man smiling. He is wearing a checked coat with a blue shirt underneath., Chuck Daly coached the Nets for two seasons from to . File:John Calipari (15536413759).jpg, John Calipari was the head coach for Nets from to . File:Byron Scott (cropped).jpg,

was the head coach from to and led the Nets to two NBA Finals in 2002 and 2003. File:Lawrence Frank in 2012.jpg,

Lawrence Frank Lawrence Adam Frank (born August 23, 1970) is an American basketball coach who is currently working as the President of Basketball Operations for the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He formerly served as head c ...

was the coach for the Nets from to . File:Avery Johnson.jpg,

Avery Johnson Avery DeWitt Johnson (born March 25, 1965) is an American basketball television commentator and former player and coach who most recently served as head coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide men's basketball team. He is currently an NBA and college ...

was the head coach for the Nets from to .

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Head coaches A head coach, senior coach or manager is a professional at training and developing athletes. They typically hold a more public profile and are paid more than other coaches. In some sports, the head coach is instead called the "manager", as in asso ...