After 16 seasons with the Utah Jazz, Gordie Chiesa is going back home to be Lawerence's Frank's top assistant with the New Jersey Nets.

"I have so many memories (of Utah) in my treasure chest and in my head," Chiesa said Thursday, just a few hours after he tendered his resignation to the Jazz and accepted a job that is a step up with the Nets.

"It's a career advancement. It will help me eventually," said Chiesa, 55, a native of Union City, N.J., who harbors great hopes of becoming an NBA head coach himself someday and thinks the additional duties of a top assistant should be of service in that respect. He has 32 years invested in basketball coaching.