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The Brooklyn Nets have wasted little time naming an interim coach after dismissing second-year skipper Jacque Vaughn this Monday morning.
Kevin Ollie, the former UConn men’s basketball coach, has been promoted to interim head coach of the Brooklyn franchise.
Ollie, 51, joined the Nets ahead of the 2023-24 NBA season after running Overtime Elite for two years.
“ESPN Sources: The Brooklyn Nets are promoting assistant Kevin Ollie to interim head coach. He’ll run practice on Tuesday and start coaching on Thursday vs. the Toronto Raptors,” Adrian Wojnarowski reports.
The head men’s basketball coach at UConn from 2012 to 2018, Ollie’s Huskies qualified for the NCAA Tournament just twice during his tenure in Storrs.
With that said, though, UConn certainly took full advantage of their limited March Madness trips under Ollie, as the Huskies won an NCAA title in 2013-14 to cap off a 32-8 regular season.
Ollie will now look to turnaround a slumping Nets team that just lost their last game by 50 points.
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