Several members of last year’s coaching staff won’t be returning to the Nets in 2023. One of those is Steve Nash’s former Phoenix Suns teammate, Amare Stoudemire, who served as a player development assistant for the Nets for the past two seasons. Stoudemire detailed the reason for his decision to not return to Brooklyn in 2023. “I spoke about me not being able to grow in the coaching space because I don’t work on Shabbat. Not working on Friday nights and Saturdays is difficult for anyone to grow in the coaching space because coaching is such a grind. It requires you to be there full-time and so for me, I was unable to grow in that space, so I did not want to continue coaching. On the flip side, the Nets organization wants people who can be there full-time, and I totally understand that, Therefore, it was a mutual understanding between them and I,” Stoudemire said on an Instagram live on May 18.