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The Brooklyn Nets person named Jacque Vaughn arsenic their caput coach, it was announced Wednesday.
Vaughn has been serving arsenic interim caput manager since replacing Steve Nash connected Nov. 1.
"Jacque's hoops acumen, competitiveness and intimate cognition of our squad and enactment marque him the clear-cut champion idiosyncratic to pb our radical moving forward," Nets wide manager Sean Marks said successful a statement. "He has a proven quality to get the champion retired of our players, clasp them accountable and play a cohesive, team-first benignant of basketball."
The Nets are 2-2 since Vaughn stepped into the interim role. His archetypal crippled arsenic the caput manager volition beryllium Wednesday nighttime astatine location against the New York Knicks.
After moving connected from Nash, the Nets had been successful discussions with Ime Udoka, who was suspended arsenic caput manager by the Boston Celtics for the 2022-23 play for an improper narration with a subordinate earlier grooming camp.
Udoka, who on with Vaughn had been a Nets adjunct earlier taking the Boston job, led the Celtics to past season's NBA Finals.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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