Kenny Atkinson

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Atkinson in 2018

Kenneth Neil Atkinson (born June 2, 1967 in Huntington (New York) ) is an American basketball coach and former player. He is also a national of Spain .

Life

player

Atkinson played basketball and soccer as a student at Northport High School in East Northport and at St. Anthony's High School in South Huntington ( New York State ). He was a member of the college basketball team at the University of Richmond from 1986 to 1990 . He played 125 games for the team and averaged 12.4 points and 3.7 assists per match. He reached his best points in the game year 1989/90 when he scored 18.9 per use. With a total of 464 basket assists, he was in second place on the University of Richmond's all-time best list when he left.

Atkinson was a professional basketball player first with the Wichita Falls Texans in the US league CBA , then also in his home country with the Long Island Surf team in the USBL league. He went to Spain , where he played for Real Canoe NC in the EBA from 1993 to 1995, followed by the CB Zamora station (1995/96). Zamora worked with the first division club CB Salamanca SAD, in the course of the 1995/96 season Atkinson was loaned to Salamanca, was used in the top Spanish division, the ACB league , but only in one encounter. In 1997/98 he was under contract with the Italian second division team Naples, in 1998/99 he played 25 games in the basketball league for SG Braunschweig and scored an average of 15.2 points and five assists per match. Atkinson continued his playing career in France , was under contract with the first division club Montpellier in 1999/2000 and averaged four points per use in ten league games. After a short detour to the German second division team Paderborn at the beginning of the 2000/01 game year, he returned to France and played there for Golbey-Epinal (2000/01), Hermine de Nantes and Mühlhausen (both 2001/02) and Évreux (2002/03 ). During the 2002/03 season, Atkinson moved from Évreux to Bundesliga club Würzburg , for which he played 18 games (6.4 points / use). In 2003/04 he was under contract with the Demon Astronauts Amsterdam in the Netherlands, then again in Nantes, France.

Trainer

From 2004 to 2006 Atkinson was an assistant coach at Paris Basket Racing . In the summer of 2006 he was a member of the coaching staff of the national team of Georgia , where he was responsible for individual training.

In the 2007/08 game year he was in charge of player development for the Houston Rockets in the NBA , from August 2008 he was assistant coach at the New York Knicks , he remained in office until 2012 and then moved as assistant coach to the Atlanta Hawks , where the Player development was one of his tasks. Atkinson left Atlanta after the end of the 2015/16 season and was introduced as the new head coach of the Brooklyn Nets in April 2016 . With the Nets, he made Chris Fleming , a former teammate at the University of Richmond, his assistant. On March 7, 2020, Brooklyn announced the split from Atkinson. This decision was preceded by 28 wins and 34 defeats over the course of the 2019/20 season. The separation was categorized by parts of the US press as surprising, as Atkinson was among other things responsible for making players like Spencer Dinwiddie , Caris LeVert , Joe Harris and Jarrett Allen high performers and leading the team to the playoffs faster than expected .

Personal

Atkinson is married to a Spanish woman from Seville and has Spanish nationality.

Web links

Commons : Kenny Atkinson  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b Kenny Atkinson Bio. In: NBA. Retrieved February 23, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Efe / Marca Basket: NBA: El español Kenny Atkinson es el nuevo entrenador de los Nets. April 18, 2016, accessed February 23, 2020 (Spanish).
  3. ^ For LI's Atkinson, competition was a family affair. Retrieved February 23, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Spiders 2019-20 Media Guide. (PDF; 14.5 MB) In: s3.amazonaws.com. Accessed February 23, 2020 (English, MBB_Record_Book_2019_20_Final.pdf).
  5. ^ By The Numbers: Nets head coach Kenny Atkinson. Retrieved February 23, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Kenny Atkinson: El entrenador de los tres minutos Nets Jugo de Salamanca - Jugadores - Historia del baloncesto - Planeta Basket - Endesa Basket Lover. Retrieved February 23, 2020 .
  7. ↑ acb.com. Retrieved February 23, 2020 (Spanish).
  8. ↑ a b c Atkinson Kenny | LNB.fr. Retrieved February 23, 2020 (French).
  9. ↑ a b easyCredit - 1365 Kenny ATKINSON. Retrieved February 23, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Coach Profile. In: basketball.usbasket.com. Retrieved February 23, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Kenny Atkinson Basketbal statistics Spelers Dossier - NBB Database, basketball statistics. Retrieved February 23, 2020 .
  12. ^ Coach of the Brooklyn Nets, Kenny Atkinson, déclare son amour à la France. In: Basket Europe. December 26, 2016, accessed February 23, 2020 (French).
  13. ^ Kenny Atkinson Joins Knicks Staff. Retrieved February 23, 2020 (American English).
  14. ↑ Atlanta Hawks: Rick Sund, Bob Weiss, and Kenny Atkinson assigned new roles. In: Soaring Down South. August 29, 2012, Retrieved February 23, 2020 (American English).
  15. ↑ KENNY ATKINSON NAMED NETS HEAD COACH. In: netsdaily.com. April 17, 2016, accessed on February 23, 2020 .
  16. ↑ From Richmond To The NBA: The Journey of Kenny Atkinson. In: RichmondSpiders on youtube.com. Retrieved February 23, 2020 .
  17. ^ Post Sports Desk: Brooklyn Nets fire coach Kenny Atkinson. In: New York Post. March 7, 2020, accessed on March 7, 2020 .
  18. ^ Kenny Atkinson out as Brooklyn Nets coach in surprise split. In: Miami Herald. Retrieved March 11, 2020 .
  19. ↑ Mike Mazzeo: Only A Title Can Justify Nets' Absurd Decision To Fire Kenny Atkinson. Retrieved March 11, 2020 .
  20. ↑ Javier Ortiz Pérez: Kenny Atkinson: El entrenador de los Nets jugó tres minutos en Salamanca - Jugadores - Historia del baloncesto - Planeta Basket - Endesa Basket Lover. In: endesabasketlover.com. May 6, 2016, accessed February 23, 2020 (Spanish).
personal data
SURNAME Atkinson, Kenny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Atkinson, Kenneth Neil (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball coach and player
DATE OF BIRTH June 2nd, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Huntington (New York)