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As sabbaticals go, the one Lionel Hollins has been on the last few months has been pretty nice, but the former Memphis Grizzlies coach said in an extended interview with ESPN.com that he is ready to get back to work.

Since not being retained by the Grizzlies' new ownership group, Hollins has been playing golf, attending charity events, doing a little broadcasting for NBA TV and watching his son Austin Hollins a senior guard for Minnesota, play college basketball. This week, he was in Hawaii to watch the Gophers in the Maui Invitational.


Nice as the time off has been, however, Hollins is ready to return to the NBA.

"I believe I've established myself as a head coach and I'd like another opportunity to show that [my success] wasn't a fluke," Hollins said. "I feel like I've proven I can take a young team and develop it, then sustain what I've done by what I did in the last five years in Memphis."

I would love for him to get that opportunity in Brooklyn and lead them to the title since we are flaming out at home. He should have had that job because trying to catch lighting in a bottle with the Jason Kidd hire has been an utter disaster.

I never understood the Nets reasons for hiring Jason Kidd as their coach just fresh into his retirement with no coaching experience whatsoever. At the going rate, the trade of Garnett and Pierce just looks good on paper.

Will be very happy for him to get another gig at another team.

Reckon he'll be a good fit for Brooklyn who, on paper, have a good team. At the very least he'd coach circles around Kidd.