How Many Head Coaches Will Sean Marks Get To Hire Before His Time Runs Out?

He's now on his fourth head coach.

Last week, the Brooklyn Nets fired their second head coach in as many seasons, Jacque Vaughn, who had been brought in to replace Steve Nash following his firing.

Team president Sean Marks, who enjoyed a multi-decade run from 1998-2011 as a player (although never for the then-New Jersey Nets), is now on his fourth head coach in eight years, with just one playoff series victory to his name in that span.

On the latest edition of his Bleav In Nets podcast, Clutch Points' Erik Slater recently chatted with Eric Lewis of The New York Post about Marks' record of hiring and firing oodles of head coaches.

"A lot of the talk after a move like this is going to be about Sean Marks hiring his fourth head coach now," Slater said. "Should he be allowed to make that hire? You know, kind of a lot of re-litigating the past and what went on with a lot of those hirings and firings. What does this move say about his job security and just the direction that the team is going and where their priorities lie with the end of this season?"

"I guess it depends on how much you want to read tea leaves. I mean, the statement came not from Jose, the owner, but from Sean Marks," Lewis offered. "So you could look and try to read into that. But for coaches, it's a lot of coaches. That's a lot of coaches without success. We're not talking about, say, I don't know, the athletic director, University of Houston, just hiring coaches because they are getting plucked by some Power five team because they're having good seasons and you're replacing them. That's not what this is. This would be four coaches with one playoff series win that probably would be something that would be, I don't want to say surprising, but certainly noteworthy and rare."

Vaughn did a totally competent job with a Brooklyn team in disarray last year, but the club had fallen to a 21-32 record and the East's 11th seed this year with a decent roster (well, borderline-decent), and clearly Marks and majority owner Joe Tsai were ready to move on.