Four months into his tenure with the …

Four months into his tenure with the Nets, Temple said he doesn’t understand why any player wouldn’t want to play for Atkinson, because his desire to play with his players shows how he can relate to them and display his investment in the team. “I’ve never seen anything like it before,” Temple said. “Gets into drills, runs the point guard, or the two or three, tries to jump in and do verticality drills, gets dunked on all the time. But a guy that is so invested, he really enjoys doing things like this. I’ve never seen anything in terms of a coach being in a drill like Kenny is.”