Cam Johnson was one of two Nets players who were on hand for Jordi Fernandez’s In between answering media questions, smiling through photo shoots and glad-handing last week, Jordi Fernandez got to talk to two of his players at HSS Training Center: Dariq Whitehead and Cam Johnson. Both were getting up shots at one of the practice courts high above New York Harbor just before the introductory press conference began and each spent a few minutes with the new boss. While Fernandez said he had already spoken to most of the Brooklyn Nets players, the conversation between he and Johnson looked like t ..read more

Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images The Phoenix Suns folded up their mediocre season Sunday night. Now, the questions about their future are everywhere, most prominently in Brooklyn, N.Y. Back last summer, two of the NBA’s most respected pundits penned analyses of the NBA’s draft picture going forward. The articles, which both popped in August, didn’t get a lot of attention back then, but now, after the Phoenix Suns monumental collapse, they have new relevance ... a lot of it. Sam Quinn of CBS Sports looked at which teams had the best cache of traded first round picks, all 56 of them. The ..read more

Every weekend, we’ll be updating the Nets’ off-season with bits and pieces of information, gossip, etc. to help fans get ready for ... whatever. The festivities are over. The Brooklyn Nets introduction of Jordi Fernandez as their new head coach, including a press conference, live and taped interviews with YES Network, an availability for the Spanish media who were there to celebrate Spain’s first NBA coach. Sean Marks talked to media as well, offering up the latest on the team Fernandez will coach. Now, of course, comes the hard work. Adrian Wojnarowski reported that Brooklyn has already reac ..read more

Dariq Whitehead was the Nets forgotten man last season, playing only 12 minutes. Now, it appears he is on the right track and will start his come back in Summer League. When Jordi Fernandez arrived for his introductory press conference Wednesday morning, Dariq Whitehead was there to greet him. The still 19-year-old has been cleared for court work and along with Cam Johnson he was putting up shots as TV crews were setting up and reporters gathered a few feet away. Whitehead, a Newark, N.J. native, has had a tough time since he came out of Florida’s Montverde Academy in 2022 as a top, if not th ..read more

In the interview with the YES Network analyst, Fernandez talks about everything from his vinyl record collection to Noah Clowney’s summer. In his exclusive interview with Sarah Kustok published Friday, the Brooklyn Nets new head coach, Jordi Fernandez, talks about a wide range of topics from Brooklyn to his desire to cook for his players, his vast vinyl record collection, how he’s one academic article from a PhD in sports psychology, Team Canada and the Nets youth movement, including how he’d like to see Nic Claxton get more involved offensively and how he sees Noah Clowney’s summer. Bottom ..read more

Photo by Phelan M. Ebenhack/NBAE via Getty Images The 19-year NBA veteran has been hired to be part of Jordi Fernandez’s growing staff Juwan Howard who played 19 seasons in the NBA then served as an assistant coach with the Heat for six years before becoming head coach of the University of Michigan Wolverines will join Jordi Ferndandez’s staff as an assistant, Adrian Wojnarowki reports. ESPN Sources: Juwan Howard has agreed to join the Brooklyn Nets as an assistant coach. Howard spent six NBA seasons as a Heat assistant before returning to Michigan for five years as head coach. Howard arrive ..read more

Photo by Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via Getty Images The Nets lost 50 games this season, but had seventh youngest roster. Do they need to get younger still? Wednesday’s introduction of Jordi Fernandez as the Nets 24th head coach and Sean Marks fourth (not counting interims) was pretty standard fare. The rookie head coach did say he believed he and the team could “get results right away,” another indication the Brooklyn Nets do not plan to veer away from their plan to compete in not contend for another season. Then, in a scrum with media after Fernandez was introduced, Marks made some news, sayin ..read more

Mike Scotto The Brooklyn Nets introduced Jordi Fernández as their new head coach on Wednesday morning. Then the fun began. The Brooklyn Nets introduced Jordi Fernández as the franchise’s new head coach on Wednesday morning, and it was a predictably pleasant affair. There were tons of Catalan and Spanish media to commemorate the introduction of just the eighth foreign-born head coach in NBA history, Fernández’s family was there, a couple of players showed up. You know, the usual. But it was Sean Marks’ comments to assembled reporters that were most illuminating. Following the main event, Marks ..read more

Evan Barnes | X/Twitter Sarah Kustok and Sean Marks introduced Brooklyn’s newest head coach The Brooklyn Nets introduced their new head coach, Jordi Fernández, on Wednesday morning in front of a packed HSS Training Center. Cam Johnson and Dariq Whitehead stayed behind after their workouts to watch the spectacle, which featured bushels of family, friends, and Spanish and Catalan media. After all, Fernández becomes just the eighth foreign-born head coach in NBA history (though the third for the Nets, a new record.) “I don’t want to say that it’s a lot of pressure on my shoulders, because I want ..read more

Photo by Harry How/Getty Images Collin Helwig has mulled the Nets season for a week, his contemplation interrupted only by Jordi Fernandez’s hiring. So before we hear Jordi speak tomorrow, here are his thoughts. Just over a week removed from their 2023-24 season finale, nobody has paid a shred of attention to the settling dust around the Brooklyn Nets. While the Jordi Fernández hiring indeed brought some interest, some hope to the perished team, the NBA spotlight, rightfully so, belongs to the 16 teams still breathing right now. It’s been a quiet death — and that’s probably for the better. I’v ..read more