How the coach of the yr of Kenny Atkinson rises to be erected

5 years in the past, Kenny Atkinson was fired in Brooklyn. On Monday he stood up As the Coach of the Year at NBAS

And the Lengthy Island native did it as he pointed his greatest cavaliers to the semifinals of the Japanese Convention.

“I simply have a look at this as a part of the story, to the correct, a part of your progress,” Atkinson mentioned earlier this season that he was eliminated in Brooklyn. “You’ve gotten good issues, you might have failures and – it is like a participant – how do you bounce? And it was undoubtedly a retreat.”

Oh, it was fairly excessive bounce, all the way in which to the highest of the league.