Caris LeVert lay-up sparks giddy reaction from Kenny Atkinson

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A sequence that made a coach smile. Oh, so broadly.

So post-game, I went over to LeVert’s locker and showed him the photos of Atkinson’s reaction, prompting laughter from the Nets’ rising star.

“Yeah, I definitely remember that. He was like, ‘I like that lay-up,’” LeVert recalled, grinning from ear-to-ear.

“It was just a wrong step lay-up, and I don’t really do those type of finishes, I like to go off of two feet,” he added. “I kind of just went off one, wrong leg, and I guess he liked it, I didn’t know y’all caught that.”

Atkinson himself didn’t quite remember the play post-game.

“Just excited that he drove the ball,” Atkinson said. “That we didn’t…