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• Nets staring down massive adjustments following Dennis Schroder trade

In what was their first game without Dennis Schroder, the Nets crumbled against the Cavaliers and ex-Nets coach Kenny Atkinson in a 130-101 loss at Barclays Center....2024
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• Central Notes: Atkinson, Okoro, Bucks, Giannis, Duarte
Visiting Brooklyn on Monday for the first time as the Cavaliers‘ head coach, Kenny Atkinson – who coached the Nets from 2016-20 – picked up a resounding win over his old team, with Cleveland blowing out Brooklyn by a score of 130-101. Magnanimous in victory, Atkinson made it clear he harbored no ill will toward […]...2024
• Kenny Atkinson makes triumphant return to Barclays Center as Cavaliers rout tanking Nets

Kenny Atkinson claimed that he didn’t view his return to Brooklyn to face the Nets with the best team in the NBA as vindication....2024
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• Atkinson returns to Brooklyn with NBA-best Cavs
Kenny Atkinson returned to Brooklyn as a head coach with his new team, the Cleveland Cavaliers, Monday. The 57-year-old, who led the Nets for four seasons, is now coaching the team with the NBA's best record, and on this night, his new club won, 130-101....2024
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• Jarrett Allen, Caris LeVert want to get win over Nets for Cavaliers coach Kenny Atkinson

In his first return to Barclays Center as a head coach, Kenny Atkinson's players want to win one for their coach....2024
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• Cavs’ Reimagined, Sometimes Chaotic Offense Under Kenny Atkinson Proving To Be Fix They Needed

Without a doubt, the Cavaliers are really cooking. Sitting at 19-3, they’re winning games with a brand of basketball that’s both precise and chaotic — a modern marvel that feels almost out of step with the league’s conventional trends. Credit? It goes straight to first-year head coach Kenny Atkinson, whose reimagined offense has transformed the […] The post Cavs’ Reimagined, Some...2024

• Ty Jerome is the unsung hero of the undefeated Cleveland Cavaliers

Ken Blaze-Imagn Images The 6’5 super sub is a driving force behind the Cavs historic start to the 2024-2025 season Whenever a team, in any sport, has an extended stretch of consecutively winning games the focus is usually on the star players and the head coach of said team. This has also been the case for the now 15-0 Cleveland Cavaliers, and for good reason. New head coach Kenny Atkinson...2024
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• 7 young NBA players making the leap this season

Photo by Tim Warner/Getty Images Here are 7 young NBA players who showing significant improvement this season. It’s not too early to overreact to what we’re seeing from the start of the NBA’s 82-game grind. Trends historically begin to stabilize around the 20-game mark. While it would be unwise to suggest the Milwaukee Bucks and Philadelphia 76ers will continue to be among the worst teams ...2024
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• 10 NBA takeaways after 10 games of the season, starring Nikola Jokic, Celtics, Knicks, and more

Photo by Cole Burston/Getty Images Here are our 10 biggest takeaways from the new NBA season so far. The 2024-25 NBA season is underway, and it’s already proven to be full of surprises. The Philadelphia 76ers and Milwaukee Bucks were supposed to be fringe championship contenders, but so far both are among the worst teams in the league. The Dallas Mavericks and Minnesota Timberwolves were s...2024
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• 3 NBA teams close to pushing panic button one week into the season

Photo by Luke Hales/Getty Images The NBA season just opened, but these three teams should already be worried. The NBA’s 82-game regular season is so long and tedious that few teams are ever really out of it until after the All-Star break. Take the 2021-2022 Boston Celtics as the chief example: Boston was just 25-25 through its first 50 games, then finished the year 26-6 before running all ...2024
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• 6 NBA overreactions after 1 game of the 2024-2025 season

Photo by Carmen Mandato/Getty Images Here are our biggest NBA overreactions after every team has played at least one game this season. Overreacting after the first game of a new season is a right of passage for sports fans. Patience is a virtue, but it’s hard to come by after a long summer without the NBA. Most of the time, fans’ earliest overreactions only serve to confirm their own agend...2024
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• Every NBA team ranked by its 2025 championship chances to start season

Photo by Jacob Kupferman/Getty Images Let’s rank every team in the NBA by their 2025 championship chances to start the season. The start of a new NBA season is the ultimate time for optimism. Every team is undefeated, and each organization’s season-long goals are still within reach. The NBA is fully entrenched in its parity era. The league has had a different champion each of the last six ...2024
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• Cavs May Again Look To Ty Jerome For Backcourt Assistance

Cavaliers guard Ty Jerome missed all but a game and a half with a mysterious ankle injury last season, but he could become the veteran backup the team is missing under new coach Kenny Atkinson. At least, that seemed to be the take from Chris Fedor of Cleveland.com. “If the Cavs are going to be […] The post Cavs May Again Look To Ty Jerome For Backcourt Assistance appeared first on Hoops Wire...2024
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• Timberwolves’ D’Angelo Russell throws shade at former Nets coach Kenny Atkinson
D’Angelo Russell’s career took a turn for the better once the Los Angeles Lakers parted ways with him, sending him to the Brooklyn Nets in efforts to unload salary and carve up a vacancy at point guard. Despite suffering an injury that kept him out for a stretch of the 2017-18 season, the now-Minnesota Timberwolves […] The post Timberwolves’ D’Angelo Russell throws sh...2020
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• Kyrie Irving wants Tyronn Lue to become Nets coach?
The Brooklyn Nets surprisingly fired coach Kenny Atkinson on Saturday. Now it’s becoming clearer why, with reports indicating that All-Star point guard Kyrie Irving already has an eye on whom he’d like to become the Nets next coach. According to Yahoo Sports’ Vincent Goodwill, Irving prefers that the Nets hire Los Angeles Clippers assistant Tyronn Lue to become the head coach next season. Irving, ...2020
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• Nets Part Ways With Head Coach Kenny Atkinson
The Brooklyn Nets have elected to part ways with head coach Kenny Atkinson. The decision, according to a statement from the team, was mutual. Assistant coach Jacque Vaughn will replace Atkinson on an interim basis. Atkinson served as the head coach of the Nets for three full seasons prior to the injury-ravaged campaign and showed […] The post Nets Part Ways With Head Coach Kenny Atkinson app...2020
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2024
"Bickerstaff went 170-159 in the regular season and 6-11 in the playoffs with the Cavaliers, who hired Kenny Atkinson."

2023
"The franchise was down to three candidates – Warriors assistant coach Kenny Atkinson, former Raptors coach Nick Nurse and Adrian Griffin – who has been the assistant at […] The post The Major Role Giannis Played in Hiring Bucks’ New Coach Adrian Griffin appeared first on Basketball Forever."

2022
"Lakers coaching search: Darvin Ham, Terry Stotts, Kenny Atkinson enter final round of interviews, per reports"

2021
"Warriors hire former Nets coach Kenny Atkinson as Steve Kerr's lead assistant, per report"

2020
"The Nets and coach Kenny Atkinson have "mutually agreed" to part ways, the team announced Saturday."

2019
"Nets coach Kenny Atkinson felt "ill" in delivering the news that guard David Nwaba suffered an Achilles injury in Brooklyn's 118-105 loss to the Spurs in San Antonio on Thursday."

2018
"Nets’ Kenny Atkinson goes crazy, has to be restrained after getting tech (VIDEO)"

2017
"“We all make a mistake if we just think Kyle’s a shooter,” Kenny Atkinson, an assistant with the Hawks for four seasons before becoming the head coach of the Nets last spring, said Friday."

2016
"The Nets are hiring Kenny Atkinson—a top assistant for the Atlanta Hawks—as their next head coach, according to Adrian Wojnarowski."

2015
"The flipside of Walton's rocket ride up the ranks of candidates is that he hasn't paid his dues like Cleveland's Tyronn Lue, Miami's David Fizdale, Atlanta's Kenny Atkinson and San Antonio's Ime Udoka and Becky Hammon, among many others."

• Central Notes: Mitchell, Atkinson, Pacers, Connaughton
In an interesting story for The Athletic, Sam Amick details the late June meeting between Donovan Mitchell and new head coach Kenny Atkinson that helped convince the star guard to sign a three-year, maximum-salary extension with the Cavaliers over the summer. Rather than using technology to get his point across at the lunch meeting, Atkinson […]...2024
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• Hoops Wire Live: Cavs Wearing Look Of True Contenders And Here’s Why
What’s behind the Cavaliers’ franchise-record start? Well, not surprisingly, I break it all down on the latest Hoops Wire Live from 330 to Go. Watch here on YouTube or directly below. In this episode, I offer high praise to not just coach Kenny Atkinson and players such as Donovan Mitchell, Evan Mobley, Jarrett Allen and […] The post Hoops Wire Live: Cavs Wearing Look Of True Con...2024
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• 5 NBA teams beating expectations so far

Photo by Harry How/Getty Images These teams are cooking coming out of the gates. It’s important to be skeptical of small sample sizes early in a new NBA season. The league’s eternal 82-game grind leaves plenty of time to make up ground in the standings, or waste a hot start. At the same time, trends start stabilizing around the 20-game mark of the season, or about a quarter of the way thro...2024
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• Evan Mobley is reaching his potential, and now so are the Cleveland Cavaliers

Photo by Jason Miller/Getty Images The 6’11 big has been empowered under new head coach Kenny Atkinson, and now both he and the Cavs are thriving The Cleveland Cavaliers lost to the eventual NBA Champion Boston Celtics in the 2024 Eastern Conference semifinals, 4-1, in what was largely a series where the Cavaliers never had a realistic shot of actually winning. They lost Jarrett Allen for...2024
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• 7 young NBA players making the leap this season
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• 3 NBA teams close to pushing panic button one week into the season
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• Amico: Cavs Bringing Back Emoni Bates On Two-Way Deal Makes Good Sense

It was mostly a no-brainer. The Cavaliers decided to bring back Emoni Bates on a two-way contract, as first reported by Hoops Wire. Anyone who follows the Cavs knew they didn’t want to give up on Bates. But they also expect to be a contender under first-year coach Kenny Atkinson. They have plenty of talented […] The post Amico: Cavs Bringing Back Emoni Bates On Two-Way Deal Makes Good ...2024
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• Darius Garland Communicated With Cavaliers He Wanted More Central Role In Offense

This past offseason, Darius Garland "made it clear internally that he wasn't content camping out in the corner," sources tell The Athletic. Garland had become more of an auxiliary part of the Cleveland Cavaliers' offense last season with Donovan Mitchell taking a bigger role in Year 2. At the end of the Cavaliers' season, a report emerged that Garland could request a trade if Mitchell signed an ex...2024
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• The Celtics aren’t spectacular. That’s just the way they like it.

Photo by Winslow Townson/Getty Images The Celtics fittingly snapped the Cavaliers' undefeated start to the NBA season with a three-point barrage — but don’t call it a statement win. TD GARDEN — Joe Mazzulla wasn’t going to overplay the significance of the Celtics’ 120-117 win over the previously undefeated Cleveland Cavaliers. “To me, I care more about, can we do it again in 72 hours?” s...2024
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• Ty Jerome is the unsung hero of the undefeated Cleveland Cavaliers
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• Evan Mobley is reaching his potential, and now so are the Cleveland Cavaliers
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• NBA’s longest undefeated starts ever, now including Cleveland Cavaliers’ 10-0 mark

Photo by Jason Miller/Getty Images The Cavs are forcing their way into NBA history with their undefeated start to the season. LeBron James is long gone, but the Cleveland Cavaliers are once again looking like an NBA championship contender. The Cavs moved to 10-0 on the young season after blasting the Golden State Warriors on Friday night in a showdown of former rivals who have reinvented t...2024
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• Cavaliers ready to improve after losing unbeaten run to Celtics: ‘It was a good test’
Even before Tuesday’s night matchup against the reigning champions, the Cavaliers were hoping to put themselves to the test while defending their impressive unbeaten run since the start of the 2024-25 campaign. This was perfectly summed up by their coach Kenny Atkinson, who was expecting to use this game as a thermometer. “We want feedback,” […] The post Cavaliers ready to...2024
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• Hoops Wire Live: Cavs In Full Swing And Indeed Coming Out Swinging
It’s Cavaliers basketball and the moment you’ve all been waiting for — a home game. It starts with ex-coach J.B. Bickerstaff and his Pistons. But what about the Cavs themselves, and new coach Kenny Atkinson? Well, so far, so great after one game. I’ve covered that extensively already. As for the long season ahead and […] The post Hoops Wire Live: Cavs In Full Swing An...2024
• Dunc'd On: 2024-25 Season Outlooks: Milwaukee Bucks with Eric Nehm + Cleveland Cavaliers with Chris Fedor

Bucks beatman Eric Nehm of the Athletic is our guest to break down Milwaukee's quest to return to the league's elite. What we can take away from last year, as injured as it was? How much do the 4 core players (Giannis, Dame, Lopez, and Middleton) have left to carry a limited roster? Why Gary Trent, Jr. is such an important piece Is Damian Lillard on the downside or can he bounce back with a bette...2024
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• East Notes: Cavs, Kenny Atkinson, Magic, Nets

Cavaliers The Cavaliers seem to believe the coaching change to Kenny Atkinson will be the biggest role in their improvement, but that may be an iffy proposition, per David Alrdidge of The Athletic. “From the moment the Cavs acquired Donovan Mitchell from Utah in 2022, NBA Twitter and its varying knockoffs have been picking out […] The post East Notes: Cavs, Kenny Atkinson, Magic, Nets ...2024
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• Daily Dime: The latest on the Finals, LeBron James, the coaching carousel and more
Photo by Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE via Getty Images Free throw shooting has never been better on the NBA’s biggest stage, and that’s not the only thing to know from our latest notes from around the league. Editor’s Note: This column originally appeared on Marc Stein’s Substack and is syndicated with permission by SB Nation. To subscribe to Marc’s Substack, sign up here: 1. Free for all LON...2023
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• Report: Kenny Atkinson reneged with Hornets due to family reasons

Warriors assistant Kenny Atkinson backed out of an agreement to become Hornets head coach....2022
• RUMOR: The real reason Kenny Atkinson ditched Hornets coaching gig, revealed
After a bizarre turn of events, it was confirmed on Saturday that Kenny Atkinson had decided to bail on his deal with the Charlotte Hornets to be the team’s new head coach. Instead, the 55-year-old opted to remain with the Golden State Warriors as Steve Kerr’s top assistant coach. As it turns out, Atkinson’s family […] The post RUMOR: The real reason Kenny Atkinson ditched ...2022
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• Warriors hire former Nets coach Kenny Atkinson as Steve Kerr's lead assistant, per report
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• Atkinson out in Brooklyn as sides agree to part
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• Lakers coaching search: Darvin Ham, Terry Stotts, Kenny Atkinson enter final round of interviews, per reports
The Lakers are coming close to naming a new head coach...2022
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• Kyrie Irving 'soured' on Kenny Atkinson, wants Ty Lue as next Nets coach, per report
Atkinson also wasn't particularly eager about coaching Kyrie and Kevin Durant moving forward...2020
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• Hornets to hire Warriors assistant Kenny Atkinson as next coach, per report
Atkinson coached the Nets from 2016-2020...2022
• Kenny Atkinson out as Brooklyn Nets coach after four seasons
Hours after a victory against the Spurs, the Nets replace coach Kenny Atkinson with Jacques Vaughn...2020
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• Warriors, Steve Kerr gets massive boost with potential Kenny Atkinson hiring
Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr will have more back-up in his coaching staff next season as the team is closing in on acquiring former Brooklyn Nets head coach Kenny Atkinson to be the team’s lead assistant. It was Shams Charania of The Athletic who broke the news via Twitter Wednesday. The Golden State […] The post Warriors, Steve Kerr gets massive boost with potential Ken...2021
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• Nets fire Kenny Atkinson: Top coaching candidates to replace him in Brooklyn
A lot of coaches will be chomping at the bit to work with two superstars in a big market...2020

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• How a Simple Lunch Between Donovan Mitchell and Kenny Atkinson Sparked the Cavaliers’ Championship Chase
The Cleveland Cavaliers may have stumbled onto something truly special, and it all started with a plate of food and a conversation — no iPads, no PowerPoints, just Donovan Mitchell and Kenny Atkinson hashing out the future with a saltshaker as their pick-and-roll screener, as detailed by Sam Amick of The Athletic. This wasn’t just […] The post How a Simple Lunch Between Donovan Mitchel...2024
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• Cavaliers ready to improve after losing unbeaten run to Celtics: ‘It was a good test’
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• Ty Jerome is the unsung hero of the undefeated Cleveland Cavaliers
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• Kenny Atkinson out as Brooklyn Nets coach in shocking move

It is rumored some of the Nets players wanted him gone. You can guess who has that kind of power....2020
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