Jerry Colangelo, president of USA Basketball, called out a member of his Olympic champions Friday when he said Deron Williams wasn't in the best shape for the London Olympics last year and that he told the Nets star so.
Jeremy Bettle was assigned in camp to assess Mirza Teletovic's training regimen. The Nets strength and conditioning coach thought Teletovic's "rogue"regimen was all wrong. Bettle now says Teletovic trains harder than anyone he's ever worked with.
Kris Humphries tweeted he worked out last night because "We're doing big things in Brooklyn" and he wanted to get in better shape. Nets strength and conditioning coach, Dr. Jeremy Bettle, retweeted it, calling Hump among 3-5 best-conditioned in NBA.
Deron Williams, the Nets peripatetic point guard, was back in New Jersey at the PNY Center and training for the Olympics.
Over the course of the last two years, the Killer B's have been quietly bringing in and promoting young talent at the PNY Center in East Rutherford. They're the next generation of the Nets front office, a bunch of 20 (and a couple of 30) somethings.
Dr. Jeremy Bettle, the Assistant Athletics Director for Sports Performance since 2009 at the University of California at Santa Barbara, has accepted the position of Strength and Conditioning Coach for the Nets, he and the team announced Thursday.
