The Brooklyn Nets have fired head coach Jacque Vaughn and will name an interim head coach in the near future, the team announced Monday.
The move comes with the Nets 21-33 and 11th in the Eastern Conference.
Vaughn replaced Canada’s Steve Nash as the team’s head coach early in the 2022-23 season. Brooklyn gave Vaughn a multi-year extension in February 2023 after the team went 32-19 when he took over from Nash.
Vaughn helped guide the Nets through the team trading Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant — the last two superstars of the Nets’ big-three experiment. James Harden, the other member of the trio, was traded to the Philadelphia 76ers in February of 2022.
Even without Durant and Irving, Brooklyn finished sixth in the Eastern Conference last season before being swept by the Philadelphia 76ers in the first round of the NBA playoffs.
The Nets started the 2023-24 season 12-10, but are 9-24 since Dec. 11 and lost by 50 to the Boston Celtics in their last game before the NBA All-Star break.
Vaughn, 49, was also a head coach with the Orlando Magic from 2012-15. He has a 129-226 all-time record as an NBA head coach.
