Long Island Nets coach Shaun Fein to join Kenny Atkinson on Clippers staff

Shaun Fein, the Long Island Nets head coach, has been named to the Los Angeles Clippers coaching staff, according to a Clippers press release issued Monday. Fein’s specific position was not labeled but the position is a player development role. He’ll be reunited with Brooklyn Nets head coach Kenny Atkinson who was officially named a Clippers assistant in the same press release. Both will work for new Clippers head coach Tyronn Lue.

In addition to Fein, Beau Levesque, a Nets player development assistant the last two years, was named to the Clips staff.

Before taking over as the head coach of the Nets G League affiliate, Fein spent three seasons with Brooklyn. Fein joined the Nets organization as did Atkinson in 2016 as a video seasonal assistant and was promoted to assistant video coordinator for the 2017-18 season.

During the 2018-19 season, Fein was the Nets team’s player development coordinator, primarily working with the Nets’ two-way players, Theo Pinson and Alan Williams, in both Brooklyn and Long Island. The former Long Island head coach also worked with G League assignment players such as Dzanan Musa and Rodions Kurucs as well during that span.

He was elevated to the head coaching job with Long Island a year ago. In that role, he worked with three two-way players who proved themselves in the Orlando “bubble”: Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot, Jeremiah Martin and Chris Chiozza. TLC is under contract with the Nets this season while Martin is in the second year of a two-way deal and Chiozza is a restricted free agent.

Before coming to the Nets, Fein served as a player development coach (2014-15) and an assistant coach (2015-16) for the Boston Celtics G League affiliate, the Maine Red Claws.

He reunites with Atkinson who he played with in France. He also played later in his career with Luwawu-Cabarrot. In addition, Fein had worked with Atkinson (and Nets assistant Jordan Ott) on the staff of the Dominican Republic national team before joining Brooklyn.

Fein played a total of 13 professional seasons in France’s Pro A and Pro B leagues, most recently with Antibes from 2012-14, where he was teammates with Luwawu-Cabarrot.

He concluded the 2019-20 shortened G League season with a head coaching record of 19-23.

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