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Brooklyn Nets Fire Avery Johnson after miserable December

Found December 27, 2012 on Players View: Yardbarker Blogger Network
PLAYERS: Deron Williams,  Mikhail Prokhorov
TEAMS: Brooklyn Nets

It was all good just a month ago. The Brooklyn Nets who came into this season with high hopes and something of a nice start have fired Avery Johnson.

The foundation of the team has publicly started to crack over the past two weeks as All-Star Deron Williams expressed doubts about Johnson’s system.

Once that happened the Nets went from being a hot team on a cold streak to being a cold team getting colder as the inner workings of the group began to be exposed. 

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