EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — There have been doubts about Avery Johnson at every level in his NBA career. Some felt he wasn’t good enough to be a player. Others said the Spurs would never win a title with him at the point guard, and there were many who felt he didn’t have the characteristics or the experience needed to be an NBA head coach. All Johnson, a former Southern University standout, did was play 16 years in the league, win a ring with San Antonio and post the NBA’s all-time coaching record in 3 1/2 years with the Dallas Mavericks.
Johnson took on a new challenge Tuesday, the job of turning around the league-worst New Jersey Nets, and there was a cockiness about him. He smiled broadly, spoke of optimism and gave off a feeling of confidence that one expects from someone expecting to succeed again. “I am all about the positive,” Johnson said after being introduced as the Nets’ 16th coach. “I am about hard work. I am about dreaming. I have a big dream right now in my mind in terms of where this franchise can go and where we can take it and I see all the possibilities.”
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