NetsDaily · Feb 12, 2023
Chris Chiozza leads Long Island Nets to 11th straight win, 120-107
Photo by Christian Bonin/NBAE via Getty ImagesWhen J.R. Holden got the job as general manager of the Long Island Nets last year, he called on his two predecessors, Trajan Langdon and Matt Riccardi, for advice. What, he asked, was going to be the key to success in the G League where players come and go. They told him the same thing: find a point guard who’s a leader.
So, Holden started calling Chris Chiozza who won a ring with the Warriors last season and had NBA stints with the Nets (twice), Washington and Houston.
“I probably called him 50 times,” Holden recently told NetsDaily and why not? Chiozza certainly qualifies as both a pure point guard and a leader.