This is from WOJ....Just hit the site
After parting with coach Steve Nash, the Nets are bringing back Udoka to try and salvage a reeling franchise amid turmoil and a 2-5 start to the season.
Boston is not requiring draft compensation from Brooklyn to hire Udoka, but there are discussions that are taking place before a deal can be finalized, sources said.
The Nets, who have lost five of seven games to start the season, will keep assistant Jacque Vaughn as the acting head coach until Udoka can start the job.
Boston suspended Udoka for the 2022-23 season for an improper relationship with a subordinate before training camp, but sources say the Celtics never planned to stand in the way of Udoka accepting another coaching job.
Udoka was an assistant for one season under Nash in 2020-21 before becoming the Celtics' coach and leading them to the NBA Finals last season. Udoka has a long history with Nets general manager Sean Marks, dating back to them working together with the San Antonio Spurs.
The Nets have been vetting the circumstances around Udoka's suspension and believe he can tighten up the league's 29th-ranked defensive team and command leadership in a difficult locker room, sources said. Udoka spent a season with Ben Simmons -- a player the Nets are desperately trying to get on track -- on the Philadelphia 76ers' coaching staff in 2019-20.
The independent law firm probe into Udoka found that he used crude language in his dialogue with a female subordinate before the start of an improper workplace relationship with the woman, an element that significantly factored into the severity of his suspension, sources told ESPN in September.
Those investigative findings -- which described verbiage on Udoka's part that was deemed especially concerning coming from a workplace superior -- contributed to what was an unlikely pathway to his reinstatement as Celtics coach in 2023, sources said.
The power dynamic associated with a superior's improper relationship with a staff member was the primary finding and policy violation cited in the law firm's report, which was commissioned by the Celtics and completed early last week, sources said
Sources: Nets moving toward hiring Ime Udoka as head coach
The Brooklyn Nets are finalizing a deal to hire suspended Boston Celtics coach Ime Udoka and a formal agreement is expected to be reached as soon as Wednesday, sources told ESPN.After parting with coach Steve Nash, the Nets are bringing back Udoka to try and salvage a reeling franchise amid turmoil and a 2-5 start to the season.
Boston is not requiring draft compensation from Brooklyn to hire Udoka, but there are discussions that are taking place before a deal can be finalized, sources said.
The Nets, who have lost five of seven games to start the season, will keep assistant Jacque Vaughn as the acting head coach until Udoka can start the job.
Boston suspended Udoka for the 2022-23 season for an improper relationship with a subordinate before training camp, but sources say the Celtics never planned to stand in the way of Udoka accepting another coaching job.
Udoka was an assistant for one season under Nash in 2020-21 before becoming the Celtics' coach and leading them to the NBA Finals last season. Udoka has a long history with Nets general manager Sean Marks, dating back to them working together with the San Antonio Spurs.
The Nets have been vetting the circumstances around Udoka's suspension and believe he can tighten up the league's 29th-ranked defensive team and command leadership in a difficult locker room, sources said. Udoka spent a season with Ben Simmons -- a player the Nets are desperately trying to get on track -- on the Philadelphia 76ers' coaching staff in 2019-20.
The independent law firm probe into Udoka found that he used crude language in his dialogue with a female subordinate before the start of an improper workplace relationship with the woman, an element that significantly factored into the severity of his suspension, sources told ESPN in September.
Those investigative findings -- which described verbiage on Udoka's part that was deemed especially concerning coming from a workplace superior -- contributed to what was an unlikely pathway to his reinstatement as Celtics coach in 2023, sources said.
The power dynamic associated with a superior's improper relationship with a staff member was the primary finding and policy violation cited in the law firm's report, which was commissioned by the Celtics and completed early last week, sources said
By the way the Nets playing the Bulls tonight at home only -2.
Back to back.
I have a funny feeling they get smoked.
Just a feeling
Good luck
Back to back.
I have a funny feeling they get smoked.
Just a feeling
Good luck
I still don't forgive my boy, Judas Shuttleworth
nooooooooo
Please Udoka, wait one year and rejoin a still young C's team
Don't let Kyrie & KD ruin your reputation
Thank you, I made the Bulls my first NBA bet of the season
I think I love watching Kyrie SUCK as much as Zit loves watching LaBron lose
Kyrie SUCKS
Please Udoka, take another 10 months off
i heard the former coach of the celtics Ime udoka
Nets' Kevin Durant 'shocked' by Steve Nash's exit as head coach 
I'm holding out hope until it becomes official. Does he really want to leave the C's for a dysfunctional organization that still has Cryrie Irving?
Talk about a different career projection, don't think there's anything worse in sports right now
They denying they want to hire him:
Nets GM denies team is set on hiring suspended Celtics coach Udoka
Nets GM denies team is set on hiring suspended Celtics coach Udoka
The Brooklyn Nets intend to name Ime Udoka as their new head coach, sources told The Athletic's Shams Charania.Brooklyn reportedly began discussions with Udoka shortly after mutually parting ways with Steve Nash earlier Tuesday. The Boston Celtics, who suspended Udoka for the entire 2022-23...
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