"Joe Johnson appeared to take Carlesimo’s firing the hardest, and it was easy to think he had grown a bit too comfortable under the interim coach. Carlesimo often said Johnson was tough to read, and the shooting guard remained inscrutable to the end. After a horrid Game 7, he seemed superficially unfazed by the failure and headed immediately to the 40/40 Club at the Barclays Center to relax and watch the Floyd Mayweather Jr. fight."
