The Brooklyn Nets pressured to not hire Ime Udoka, per report

It hasn’t been the best season start for the Brooklyn Nets. From Ben Simmons looking like he has one foot into retirement to Kevin Durant having one foot out the door, the firing of Steve Nash a few weeks into the season, and the worldwide controversy surrounding Irving and a certain documentary I won’t mention here.

Another potentially controversial story emerged in the middle of this circus regarding the potential hiring of their next head coach. As reported by several reporters in the last few weeks, the Nets were seriously considering bringing in Ime Udoka as their next head coach.

Let’s quickly recap the story so far. The Nets are already struggling at 4-6 and have an explosive situation already on the court and off. They are struggling to win games because they are not 100 percent focused on the actual games because of everything going on, so what do the Nets think is a good idea? First, let us bring in the most polarizing head coach possible, right or wrong, to coach our fragile edge team. Sounds like a great plan, right?

Well, not everyone thinks so, according to Marc Stein’s sources.

With this report coming out, it starts to make sense why something that seemed inevitable, the hiring of Udoka, has now lost steam and hasn’t been mentioned nearly as much in the last few days. It was also reported the Boston Celtics would not seek compensation for Udoka, which makes you think there could be more to the story. Consider why the Celtics would not want compensation for a head coach still under contract who just took them to the NBA Finals.

Maybe the hiring still happens, and the Nets are waiting for their latest controversy to blow over, but it seems that not everyone is on board with bringing Udoka to an already explosive situation. The way the Nets have been going lately, I have a feeling hiring Udoka will be the least of their issues.