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Bret Brielmaier named head coach of Long Island Nets

Brooklyn’s G League affiliate, the Long Island Nets, also had to fill the team’s head coach position this offseason.

Kenny Atkinson isn’t the only former member of the Brooklyn Nets organization who went west to work on the Los Angeles Clippers coaching staff under Ty Lue. Former Long Island Nets head coach Shaun Fein was also among those to join the Clippers’ refurbished staff after spending the last four years in Brooklyn’s organization. Fein is now a player development coach in Los Angeles.

Roughly a month after it was announced Fein was joining Atkinson and Lue in Los Angeles, Long Island has named his replacement. Bret Brielmaier is the new head coach of Brooklyn’s G League affiliate. Entering his fifth year with the team — serving as an assistant coach in the previous four — Brielmaier becomes the fourth head coach in Long Island history.

“Bret has been an integral part of the Nets family for the past four seasons, and we are thrilled that he’ll be coaching the Long Island Nets,” Long Island Nets general manager Matt Riccardi said. “His experience and vision are a perfect fit for leading the development of emerging players on Long Island, and we are eager to see the growth he inspires in our next generation of Nets talent.”

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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.