Vaughn, 45, has the most daunting of challenges in front of him. He’s trying to win the job as Nets coach, shed the interim tag pinned on him when he was promoted to replace Kenny Atkinson, who was dismissed. Vaughn has some internal support and The Athletic has reported that the Nets plan to give him every chance to win the job. But his roster has been devastated, gutted, stripped to the studs by season-ending injuries and surgeries, by COVID-19, and by the strangeness of the times.