Jacque Vaughn, Tyronn Lue, Jason Kidd, Mark Jackson and Jeff Van Gundy are among the names on the Brooklyn Nets' head coaching job list.

Tom Thibodeau is believed to only be a candidate for the New York Knicks.

The Nets' process to find a permanent replacement for Kenny Atkinson is believed to only accelerate after the 19-20 season is either completed or canceled. 

Mike Brown is another potential candidate.

Tyronn Lue has interest in becoming head coach of the Brooklyn Nets.

Lue is currently an assistant coach with the Los Angeles Clippers after turning down a three-year, $18 million offer to become head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers.

Lue previously coached Kyrie Irving with the Cleveland Cavaliers.

The Nets fired Kenny Atkinson as head coach in March and currently has Jacque Vaughn in the job on an interim basis. 

Tom Thibodeau, Mark Jakson, Phil Handy and Jason Kidd are also potential candidates.

Draymond Green saw parallels between the Chicago Bulls 97-98 season depicted in "The Last Dance" and the Golden State Warriors' 18-19 season.

"It definitely hit close to home," Green said on Uninterrupted's "WRTS: After Party" show with Paul Rivera and Maverick Carter, which was posted Monday. "Ironically, our season was the 20-year anniversary of that season. And we have a very important piece of our season, who was a piece of that season, which was Steve Kerr. I think Phil [Jackson] did what was great, which is acknowledge the elephant in the room. Because all year, if Phil doesn't do that, all year everyone else is dealing with that somewhere. And whether it's coming in questions [from the media], so now once you get these questions from the media, we've already addressed that as a team. We really don't need to talk about that. And our season was a little different from the standpoint of it was contracts, but it was on players. It wasn't necessarily the organization."

Green said the Warriors were waiting to see what Durant would do with his free agency in 2019.

"So, for instance, Kevin took the one-year deal on his own. So that was kind of the elephant in the room," Green said. "And although Steve's approach was like, 'Hey, guys, let's approach this year because we don't know what next year brings,' you've got Kevin's contract, you've got [Klay Thompson]'s contract, and I kind of got thrown in that contract thing, although I had another year after that year, which was this year. And so that was kind of the elephant in the room, and although Steve would kind of hit on it, [saying] 'Let's just enjoy this year for what it is because we don't know what next year holds,' it didn't necessarily carry the same weight because what should have happened was Kevin come out and say, 'Hey, man, this is it, so let's do this,' or, 'This isn't it.'"

The hope of Durant diminished as the season progressed, particularly after an altercation he had with Green in a November loss at the Clippers.

"But you can't just leave the elephant in the room, because what happened was the question came to us every day, like every time we spoke to the media, Klay and myself was asked about our contract," Green said. "It was strictly due to Kevin, because while that was going on, Klay was saying, 'I want to be a Warrior forever. I want to be here. We started this thing. This is where I want to be.' I'm saying, 'Yo, I want to be here for my career. We started this, we built this, I want to finish my career here with the guys I started it with.' And then you kind of had Kevin, [saying] like, 'I don't know what I'm going to do next year, and it don't matter'; but it does matter, because you're not the only person that has to answer that question.

"To be quite frank with you, you're honestly the last person that has to answer the question because you don't really say s---. Like, you don't say much to the media. If anything, you tell them to shut the f--- up. Well, I don't tell them to shut the f--- up. I kind of have a conversation, and so I'm stuck answering that question all the time. And due to that, there was always an elephant in the room amongst us, as opposed to with [the Bulls], they didn't have that elephant. [General manager Jerry Krause] had said it was Phil's last year. Phil had told them this was the last dance. Mike already said, 'Well, if Phil ain't coming back next year, I'm not either.' So everybody knew it was Mike's last year. They didn't have that elephant. Whereas I think we had a huge elephant sitting in the room, and Steve was trying to address it as best as he could, but it was kind of out of his hands."

Joe Lacob offered a new theory about the departure of Kevin Durant from the Golden State Warriors during a recent podcast with Tim Kawakami.

“This is really an odd thing to say, but him leaving when he did may have turned out to be the right thing,” Lacob said. “For him, certainly, I want him to have a good career, enjoy himself. He felt it was obviously not the right thing to stay. He wasn’t quite comfortable. I can’t explain why. I don’t know why. But for whatever reason, he moved on. But he wouldn’t have played this last year. He was injured. We would’ve had a huge payroll as a team. Maybe this is the best thing. We were able to start a rebuild a little bit earlier than we otherwise might have. Maybe it’ll prove to be the right thing in the long run that that occurred. I’m an optimist. I always look at things at what’s the positive in the situation. Yes, he left. That’s negative. But the positive is we got a chance to move forward quicker and to move into the next phase of what we’re doing.”

The Warriors acquired D'Angelo Russell as part of the Kevin Durant move and then converted Russell into Andrew Wiggins and the first round pick in 2021 of the Minnesota Timberwolves.

The New York Knicks and Brooklyn Nets collaborated with the NBA and Huang Ping, China's counsel general, to donate 1 million surgical masks to essential workers across New York City.

Nets owner Joseph Tsai and his wife, Clara Wu Tsai, are also donating 1,000 ventilators.

"This is a big deal and it's going to make a significant difference for us," said New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.

The Alibaba Group, which Tsai co-founded, has already donated 1 million masks and 500,000 testing kits to the city. 

"The whole Alibaba Group has really been helping with all the New York City hospitals, sourcing these certified and high quality PPEs. I know they are having conversations with all these government agencies. We all know that he is behind this," said Nets general manager Sean Marks on Wednesday.

Sean Marks said that the four Brooklyn Nets players who tested positive for COVID-19 have all fully recovered.

Marks added that the team will continue to obey social distancing guidelines.

"As it pertains to the team. I sense -- like all of us, like the rest of New York and really the rest of the globe -- we're trying to deal with this as best we can," said Marks during a conference call.

Marks spoke about the injury progress of Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving, saying he'll have a better understanding of their timeline in 3-4 weeks.

"I couldn't give an answer on when they'll play this season. I don't think it's fair to those athletes nor the performance team to put a timeline on it. I think everyone is dealing with bigger, far more pressing things."

Marks also added that the Nets coaching search is currently put on hold, and they are not currently reaching out to candidates.