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David Duke Jr. and Chris Chiozza named to All-G League teams for Long Island Nets

David Duke Jr. and Chris Chiozza were named to All-G League teams earlier in April for how they played during the season.

David Duke Jr. of the Brooklyn Nets and Chris Chiozza of Brooklyn’s G League affiliate, the Long Island Nets, were named to the All-G League teams, according to an official release by the G League earlier in April. Duke Jr. was named to the First Team while Chiozza was named to the Third Team.

Duke Jr. averaged 23 points, 6.1 rebounds, 3.8 assists, and 1.9 steals per game while shooting 47.9% from the field and 32.1% from three-point land in 22 games for Long Island this season. Duke Jr. did what he did while leading Long Island to a 15-7 in the games that he played in. LIN had an overall 23-9 record, which was the best record in the East and was tied for the second-best record in the G League.

Chiozza, who played for Brooklyn from 2019 to 2021 (two seasons), averaged 12.2 points, 4.7 rebounds, 8.3 assists, and 1.9 steals per game while shooting 45.4% from the field and 44% from behind the three-point line. Long Island had a 22-8 record when Chiozza played and he was tied for fifth in the league in assists per game with Shaquille Harrison of the South Bay Lakers, the Los Angeles Lakers’ G League affiliate.

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Long Island Nets name Ronnie Burrell as head coach; JR Holden as GM

An ESPN basketball insider reports that the Long Island Nets have named several key front office staff members including the manager and coach.

The Brooklyn Nets’ G League affiliate, the Long Island Nets, have named several team leaders including their new General Manager, head coach, and assistant coach.

Basketball writer Marc J. Spears of ESPN reports that the team has named their incoming staff members. “The Long Island Nets, the NBA G League affiliate of the Brooklyn Nets, say they have named JR Holden as general manager and Ronnie Burrell as head coach. The team has also named Matt MacDonald as assistant general manager,” Spears reported.

In a press release, Brooklyn’s General Manager Sean Marks praised his newly promoted employees.

“JR, Ronnie and Matt bring extensive experience to Long Island, and we’re thrilled to have them lead the Long Island Nets,” said Brooklyn Nets General Manager Sean Marks. “They have all grown tremendously as individuals during their time in the Nets organization and have shown what it takes to identify and develop promising players throughout their careers. We look forward to seeing how they’ll shape the next generation of prospects that play on Long Island.”

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Nets transfer Reggie Perry to Long Island

Reggie Perry finally has a chance to get some consistent playing time as he heads down to the G League.

The G League season is set to start on Feb. 10, and the Brooklyn Nets’ G League affiliate, the Long Island Nets, will be among the 18 teams participating the season — which will be hosted in the Disney bubble. Among the players joining Long Island ahead of the start of their season is Nets rookie two-way forward Reggie Perry after Brooklyn assigned him to their G League squad on Thursday.

Perry has appeared in 14 games for the Nets, receiving far more minutes after Jarrett Allen was sent to Cleveland as part of the James Harden trade. Tuesday’s win over the Los Angeles Clippers was the first one Perry has not played in since Allen joined the Cavaliers.

In 14 games this season, the 2020 second-round draft pick is averaging 3.6 points and 3.6 rebounds per game while logging 10.5 minutes a night. He has eclipsed the double-digit mark twice, scoring 11 against the New York Knicks on Jan. 13 and 10 against the Oklahoma City Thunder, en route to his first double double (10 rebounds) at the NBA level.

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Long Island Nets head coach Shaun Fein joins Kenny Atkinson on Clippers staff

Kenny Atkinson is living the Los Angeles life now, and he has taken a few people from Brooklyn to California with him.

Kenny Atkinson wasn’t able to land a new head coaching job after he and the Brooklyn Nets parted ways back in March — right before the COVID-19 pandemic led to the NBA’s hiatus and the shutdown of other sports.

But, the former Nets head coach did manage to find a new home with a contender in the Western Conference after Ty Lue took over for Doc Rivers as head coach of the Los Angeles Clippers.

Now an assistant coach under Lue, it appears Atkinson has brought a little bit of Brooklyn with him to Los Angeles.

The Clippers announced Shaun Fein and Beau Levesque have both joined their organizations.

Fein was with the Nets organization for the last four seasons, most recently serving as head coach of Brooklyn’s G League affiliate, the Long Island Nets. He will be a player development coach for the Clippers.

Levesque will hold the title of player development and video coach after spending the last two seasons in Brooklyn, most recently working as an assistant video coordinator/player development assistant.

Long Island Nets guard served as poll worker in 2020 presidential election

Long Island Nets guard Devin Cannady had a very different 2020 Election Day experience than the average American.

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While most Americans were performing their civic duties on Tuesday by voting in the 2020 presidential election, Long Island Nets guard Devin Cannady was taking on a greater role in the process.

Back home in Indiana, Cannady was working the polls as an election site safety coordinator through The Poll Hero Project. The guard reflected on his experience on Twitter Wednesday:

Besides the awesome feeling I had afterwards… my biggest takeaway from poll working was the TRANSPARENCY that happens once the polls are closed. Democrats & Republicans counting votes together as a form of checks and balances to make sure each vote is 1.) VALID + 2.) COUNTED.

It’s not rocket science, but the poll workers put their political parties aside and make sure the environment promotes an apolitical process to ensure a LEGITIMATE COUNT.

One of Cannady’s college teammates co-founded The Poll Hero Project, per Chris Milholen of Nets Daily, which is what inspired the guard to get involved.

Former Nets assistant turned NBL head coach raves about RJ Hampton

RJ Hampton is among those who are projected to be selected shortly outside of the lottery in the 2020 NBA Draft.

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After Will Weaver spent a deal of time with the Brooklyn Nets organization — during which he served as both an assistant coach at the NBA level and a head coach in the G League for the Long Island Nets — he made the move to Australia’s National Basketball League for the 2019-20 season to take on the role of head coach for the Sydney Kings.

While overseas, Weaver was able to coach against two players who are expected to be selected in the first round of the 2020 NBA Draft: LaMelo Ball and RJ Hampton. Oddly enough, the pair could both soon call New York home, should Ball slip to the Knicks at No. 8 and Hampton the Nets at No. 19.

During his appearance on The Wingspan Podcast, Weaver made clear these two ex-NBL players have what it takes to make an impact in the NBA.

“I think that those of us that have [had] the opportunity to sit, get to know and work with, and try to maximize the odds of that happening for a number of talented youngsters appreciate just what a hard climb that is. Butm in LaMelo’s case, specifically — and throw RJ in the same category — the tools are remarkable.

Weaver also added both Hampton and Ball’s “shooting can improve a lot,” which is a must given they’re both guards.

“I think there is a reason to be excited about both of those guys, but the arc of development is long and the context that these guys go into matters so much. Everything I’ve heard is very positive about their likelihood of taking advantage of those opportunities.”

Weaver also added about Hampton:

“RJ, I’d say, his athletic traits are even stronger. So, where he goes and what his ceiling is like as a defender I think is quite high.”

Justin Anderson named All-NBA G League

The three All-NBA G League teams were announced on Friday. The Long Island Nets had one player make a team.

The All-NBA G League teams were announced on Friday. The Brooklyn Nets’ G League affiliate, the Long Island Nets, had one player earn All-NBA G League honors: Justin Anderson. The wing received third team recognition.

After logging 15 games for Raptors 905, Anderson joined Brooklyn on a 10-day deal and he was not re-signed upon his contract’s expiration. Anderson was then traded by Raptors 905 to Long Island in exchange for Henry Ellenson.

In 31 G League games this season (16 with Long Island), Anderson averaged 20.6 points, 6.6 rebounds and 1.1 steals per game while playing 33.6 minutes a night.

Also joining Anderson on the 2019-20 All-NBA G League Third Team is Dusty Hannahs of the Memphis Hustle (Memphis Grizzlies’ G League affiliate),  Jemerrio Jones of the Wisconsin Herd (Milwaukee Bucks), Vic Law of the Lakeland Magic (Orlando Magic) and Marial Shayok of the Delaware Blue Coats (Philadelphia 76ers).

RELATED: Long Island Nets’ Justin Anderson among players involved in peaceful protest

Long Island Nets’ Justin Anderson among players involved in peaceful protest

Boston’s Jaylen Brown and Indiana’s Malcolm Brogdon are among the NBA players who’ve taken part in the recent peaceful protests in the U.S.

As protests broke out across the country in response to the wrongful death of George Floyd and others, some NBA players have gotten involved.

Celtics wing Jaylen Brown drove 15 hours from Boston down to Georgia, calling for the protest he would take part in to be peaceful:

Being a celebrity, being an NBA player, don’t exclude me from no conversations at all. First and foremost, I’m a black man and I’m a member of this community. … We’re raising awareness for some of the injustices that we’ve been seeing. It’s not OK.

Indiana guard Malcolm Brogdon followed Brown’s lead in the cause, as has Long Island Nets forward Justin Anderson, according to Tim Bontemps of ESPN.

Among others who are doing their part is Spurs guard Lonnie Walker IV, who helped clean up buildings in San Antonio that had been tagged with graffiti.

RELATED: Nets release statement on loss of George Floyd: ‘Enough is Enough’

Jaylen Hands: Kyrie Irving ‘is a great teammate’

Jaylen Hands, who the Brooklyn Nets took late in the second round of the 2019 NBA Draft, has learned a lot from just watching Kyrie Irving.

Before Kyrie Irving joined Brooklyn, he seemed to have issues with some of the “young guys” he’d played with. Though since Irving has left Boston, his younger ex-teammates — Jayson Tatum, Terry Rozier (who also left Boston) and Jaylen Brown — have absolved the Nets guard of the Celtics’ dysfunction in 2018-19.

Of course, the Nets had their strange moments throughout the 2019-20 season. Irving was one of the individuals who drew attention to himself when he made comments about Brooklyn’s roster. But Irving Nets teammates stood by him.

Even Jaylen Hands, who was with the Long Island Nets, Brooklyn’s G League affiliate, after he was selected in the second round of the 2019 NBA Draft by the franchise, had nothing but good things to say about Irving when the 21-year-old guard was asked about the veteran on the Locked On UCLA Bruins podcast:

It was dope to just see him work. For me, I got to see him work every day. I got to see how serious he takes pick-up games. I go to see how serious he takes shooting by himself; how serious he takes the weight room. He is a great teammate, very uplifting. So, from him he was always [preaching] ‘keep getting better, adapt, keep working, pay attention, listen.’ And he is a great person.

Hands played in 40 of Long Island’s 41 games this season, starting 18 times. He averaged 11.3 points per game on 41.9% shooting (35.1% from deep) while playing 22.4 minutes a night.

Nic Claxton recalled by Nets from G League

After spending some time with the Long Island Nets, Nic Claxton is back with the Brooklyn Nets for Friday’s game.

Following the NBA All-Star break, Nic Claxton was among the players the Brooklyn Nets assigned to their G League affiliate, the Long Island Nets. He played in three games for Long Island, but will not be with the team on Friday.

Prior to their game against the Atlanta Hawks, Brooklyn announced Claxton had been recalled.

The Nets rookie led Long Island in scoring in two of the three games he played in throughout his recent stretch in the G League. He finished in double figures each game, averaging 16.7 points per game. Claxton’s highest total (21 points) came against the Lakeland Magic, the Orlando Magic’s G League affiliate. The forward also grabbed 12 rebounds against Lakeland.

Claxton could still rejoin Long Island for their next game, should he not play much on Friday or against the Miami Heat on Saturday. Long Island is off until Sunday, when the Nets play host to Raptors 905, the Toronto Raptors’ G League affiliate.