Nets approached CSKA's GM, coach about jobs in Prokhorov era

Andrei Vatutin, president CSKA Basketball - Andrey Godyaykin / Boshoi Sports - Wiki CommonDavid Pick, the European hoops writer, reports that both the head coach and president of CSKA Moscow were approached about jobs by the Nets in the Prokhorov era, both in assistant jobs. CSKA was owned by Mikhail Prokhorov for a decade, winning two Euroleague championships.

Dmitry Itoudis, the coach, told Pick, writing for Bleacher Report, that the Nets had interest in him at one point, presumably as an assistant, "but it didn't work out." Pick added that Itoudis has even filed scouting and draft reports for the Nets. Itoudis, whose helped out other NBA teams in the summer league, led CSKA to a Russian…