EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- If the New Jersey Nets are planning to clean house after the season, owner Lewis Katz hasn't told coach Don Casey yet.
"Lewis has said he'll sit down with me at the end of the year," Casey said Sunday after a newspaper reported that he would be fired shortly after the Nets end the regular season Wednesday. "He said that to me at least three times. I have nothing else to go by but that."The Star Ledger of Newark reported in its Sunday editions that team owners have decided to fire Casey, general manager John Nash and president Michael Rowe.
The newspaper based its report on discussions with two unidentified owners of YankeeNets, the sports-entertainment group that oversees the joint merger of the Yankees and Nets, and a third person familiar with the team's decision-making.
"No decisions have been made regarding any personnel associated with the New Jersey Nets," Katz said in a statement released through a spokesman. "All matters relating to the team will be taken up following the end of the season."
Casey signed a two-year $2.4 million contract last June. Only the first year and $1.1 million of the deal is guaranteed.