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The Nets signed head coach Jordi Fern\u00e1ndez and his entire coaching staff to multiyear contract extensions on Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cVery grateful [for the job], myself and my family,\u201d Fern\u00e1ndez said last week. \u201cAnd it\u2019s very special. There\u2019s only 30 jobs in the world, and having one, it\u2019s more than special.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMy goal is not just to keep it, but help the organization with the plan that we have and build success and sustain it. Good things are going to happen in the long run.\u201d<\/p>\n

The announcement by the Nets gives them added stability moving forward as they try to move from tanking to building.<\/p>\n

\"Jordi<\/p>\n

Jordi Fernandez speaks with the media during post season interviews at HSS Training Center, Monday, April 13, 2026, in Brooklyn, NY. Corey Sipkin for the NY POST<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a process that even Fern\u00e1ndez has been tougher than he expected.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t know how you\u2019re going to deal with your emotions until you have to go through it. I remember getting the job and some people were like, \u2018Oh, it\u2019s going to be hard. It\u2019s not going to be easy\u2019. I always have a positive mindset. I\u2019m like \u2018Oh, no, we\u2019ll be OK\u2019. [But] it\u2019s really hard because you want to go out there and win.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBut yeah, those losses and keeping perspective of things isn\u2019t always an easy thing to do. We know we\u2019ve gotten better already in two years. \u2026 Now, we\u2019re ready to take whatever the next step is, and we\u2019re in a better place than we were a year or two years ago. To me, that\u2019s what gives me confidence; I can go coach that next game and I feel supported. And I also feel like when I\u2019m going to make a mistake, I\u2019m going to be challenged, too. So when all those things happen it\u2019s all possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nets general manager Sean Marks and owner Joe Tsai hired Fern\u00e1ndez away from the Kings coaching staff in 2024 and challenged him to oversee a massive rebuild.<\/p>\n

Over two seasons, Fern\u00e1ndez has gone 46-118 for a team clearly tanking, whose fans complained he was winning too much. The Spaniard largely drew praise from league observers over that span.<\/p>\n

\"Jordi<\/p>\n

Jordi Fernandez, center, gestures during the second half of an NBA basketball game against Indiana Pacers, Thursday, April 9, 2026, in New York. AP<\/p>\n

\u201cYou see how they\u2019ve approached every practice, every shootaround, every film session with authenticity and he\u2019s been true to himself the whole year,\u201d Marks said. \u201cWith Jordi, it\u2019s his honest approach. That goes a long way with staff and players. You know exactly where you stand, what\u2019s expected of you. He tightropes a fine line of holding guys accountable and loving them at the same time, and not many people can do that and do it really well. That\u2019s something that stood out to me about Jordi and the coaching staff.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThey\u2019ve embraced a competitive culture. Guys know exactly where they stand. But it\u2019s a fun environment. If you talk about players and you end up in a season like this, it\u2019s had its trying moments, without a doubt. \u2026 So those are the things behind the scenes that don\u2019t necessarily show up on stat sheets. But it definitely bodes well for the long-term approach and the long-term plan.\u201d<\/p>\n

That long-term plan will now move from tanking and pure development \u2014 with a record five first-round rookies \u2014 to at least attempting to win next season.<\/p>\n

That will test a different set of coaching chops and in-game management. For example, the call to start Michael Porter Jr. at power forward instead of small forward at the beginning of the season was ill-advised, something Fern\u00e1ndez admits.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve gotten better by making mistakes and realizing I\u2019ve made those mistakes and owning those mistakes from the beginning,\u201d said Fern\u00e1ndez, 43. \u201cI played Michael at the four. I [moved him to] the three and put Noah [Clowney] at the four. Then our defense took off and his play was impressive. So that was my mistake, and I could give you a thousand other mistakes.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI will keep making mistakes; I\u2019ve just got to make honest mistakes and own them, and all of us keep getting better. So this is what the season is about. Having all those different lineups is not an excuse; it\u2019s part of the journey. Soon enough, we\u2019ll all start having consistency and that\u2019s how you start seeing the change.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Nets signed head coach Jordi Fern\u00e1ndez and his entire coaching staff to multiyear contract extensions on Monday.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3767],"tags":[7,670,247,3803,11859,126,248,562,6,671],"class_list":{"0":"post-715692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn-nets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-brooklyn-nets","11":"tag-brooklynnets","12":"tag-coaching-staff","13":"tag-indiana-pacers","14":"tag-jordi-fernandez","15":"tag-michael-porter-jr","16":"tag-nba","17":"tag-nets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116447270534349036","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}