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May 18, 2009
Nets looking to move Yi Jianlian
NY Daily News
By Mitch Lawrence
Here's more evidence that the Nets could not afford to fire coach Lawrence Frank and pay out the last year on his contract — this item about massive cutbacks on the NJ Nets coaching staff ran at the end of an article about Yi Jianlian trade rumors:
Meanwhile, in an effort to further save money, one plan has the Nets cutting their assistant coaches' salaries from $1 million combined to only $500,000.
NoLandGrab: Trading Yi would end Nets CEO Brett Yormark's visionary campaign to tap into the metropolitan area's ethnic Chinese fan base.
Ironically, the online version of this story has a link to "Buy Nets Tickets Today."
Posted by lumi at May 18, 2009 6:14 AM