A well-known face joins Jacque Vaughn’s teaching workers in Brooklyn.
Former UConn Huskies head coach Kevin Ollie has joined the Nets’ workers as an assistant coach, the crew introduced in an announcement on Tuesday. Will Weaver, Jay Hernandez and Ronnie Burrell spherical out Vaughn’s teaching workers, and Corey Vinson joins Adam Capcorn’s participant growth workers.
Ollie is a 13-year NBA veteran who performed level guard for various groups, most notably a six-season stint with the Philadelphia 76ers with extra pit stops in New Jersey, Cleveland, Seattle/Oklahoma City, Milwaukee, Chicago, Minnesota, Indiana, Orlando, Dallas and Sacramento.
He is finest often known as the purpose guard who led the Huskies to an NCAA championship in 1995. He was additionally head coach of the 2014 UConn males’s basketball crew that gained the NCAA championship, and was named the American Athletic Conference Coach of the Year in 2016.
Ollie was most just lately the top coach on the Atlanta-based Overtime Elite, knowledgeable basketball league for elite prospects aged 16 to twenty. No Overtime Elite gamers have cracked an NBA rotation for the reason that program’s inception in 2021, however two extremely touted prospects — twins Amen and Ausar Thompson — are projected to go Top-10 within the 2023 NBA Draft.
Ollie joins Brooklyn’s teaching workers after heavy curiosity in different head teaching alternatives throughout the league. He was a finalist for the Detroit Pistons’ head teaching job that finally went to former Phoenix Suns head coach Monty Williams. He was additionally reportedly within the combine for a spot on Willie Green’s teaching workers with the New Orleans Pelicans.
The Nets job is his first go-round as an NBA assistant coach.
And for a Nets crew with as many as 12 first-round picks by means of 2030 and three younger prospects — Nic Claxton, Cam Thomas and Day’Ron Sharpe — Ollie’s penchant for participant growth might turn out to be useful.
Four of Ollie’s former Huskies gamers went on to get pleasure from profitable NBA careers: four-time All-Star Kemba Walker, two-time All-Star Andre Drummond, and position gamers Jeremy Lamb and Shabazz Muhammad.
During a 19-game stint with the New Jersey Nets within the 2000-01 NBA season, Ollie averaged a degree, a rebound and an help. Over his 13-year profession, he averaged about 4 factors, two assists and one rebound per recreation, and his finest season got here in 2003, when he averaged eight factors, 4 assists and one steal per recreation after his midseason commerce to the Seattle SuperSonics and made the one three-pointer he tried with them on the season.
Ollie is predicted to be a significant participant for future NBA head teaching vacancies.
The Huskies fired Ollie in 2018 after an NCAA investigation into his program’s ranges of compliance with respect to the foundations concerning impermissible contact with potential student-athletes. In 2022, an arbitrator dominated UConn improperly fired Ollie. Connecticut was ordered the college pay Ollie again pay.
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Source: www.bostonherald.com