20180416 Utah Jazz assistant coach Igor Kokoskov passes balls to gamers as they shoot because the Utah Jazz gamers apply as they put together to play the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder in recreation two of the NBA playoffs in Oklahoma Metropolis on Monday, April 16, 2018. Scott G Winterton, Scott G Winterton, Deseret Information
Igor Kokoskov, who was a prime assistant coach on Quin Snyder’s employees with the Utah Jazz from 2015 to 2018, is reportedly anticipated to go away his job as an assistant with the Dallas Mavericks to turn into an assistant with the Brooklyn Nets.
Substack’s Marc Stein reported the information on Saturday, noting that Nets head coach Steve Nash, who has been in that job since September of 2020, “had pursued Kokoskov when he first received the job after their time collectively in Phoenix (from 2008-2012 as Nash starred and Kokoskov was an assistant).”
The Nets are anticipated to rent Mavericks assistant coach Igor Kokoskov to function an assistant to Steve Nash on the Brooklyn bench, league sources say.
— Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) June 4, 2022
Nash had pursued Kokoskov when he first received the job after their time collectively in Phoenix.
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The transfer for the 50-year-old Kokoskov comes after the Mavericks made a shock run to the Western Convention Finals.
Maybe mockingly, they beat the Jazz and Phoenix Suns to get there earlier than falling to the Golden State Warriors.
Kokoskov shall be leaving celebrity Luka Doncic, whom he coached as head man of the Slovenian nationwide crew because it gained the EuroBasket gold medal in 2017.
A yr later when Kokoskov left the Jazz to turn into head coach of the Suns, they infamously bypassed deciding on Doncic with the primary general choose regardless of Kokoskov’s familiarity with him and took Deandre Ayton as an alternative.
Kokoskov shall be becoming a member of a Nets crew that completed seventh within the Jap Convention in the course of the common season after which received swept within the first spherical of the playoffs by the Boston Celtics, who lead the Warriors 1-0 within the NBA Finals with Recreation 2 set for Sunday.
This can mark the ninth NBA crew Kokoskov could have been an assistant with. Snyder employed him as an assistant on the College of Missouri in 1999, and Kokoskov grew to become an assistant with the LA Clippers in 2000, marking the primary time a non-American had ever been employed as a full-time NBA assistant.
He left LA for the Detroit Pistons in 2003 and gained a championship with them in 2004. Subsequent was his assistant stint with the Suns from 2008-2012.
Subsequent had been jobs with the Cleveland Cavaliers (2013-2015) and Orlando Magic (2015) earlier than he was reunited with Snyder in Utah.
Because the Jazz rose from a younger upstart squad to a contender within the Western Convention, Kokoskov began getting talked about as a possible head teaching candidate, and he was employed to rejoin the Suns in that function in 2018.
The 2018-19 season was type of a catastrophe in Phoenix, nonetheless, and Kokoskov was fired. That made manner for the Suns to rent Monty Williams, who gained the 2022 NBA Coach of the Yr award after a second consecutive nice season.
Kokoskov joined the Sacramento Kings teaching employees after getting fired by Phoenix, and was there for a season earlier than being named head coach of Turkish energy Fenerbahce.
After a season in that function, Kokoskov was employed by the Mavericks final summer time, which reunited him with Doncic.