How Jordi Fernández, the Brooklyn Nets Coach, Spends an N.B.A. Off Day

How Jordi Fernández, the Brooklyn Nets Coach, Spends an N.B.A. Off Day

Jordi Fernández first set foot in New York in 2009. “New York didn’t feel like the United States,” Mr. Fernández recalled thinking. “It felt more like the capital of the world.” He said he grew up with a “city lifestyle” in Badalona on the northeast coast of Spain, in the Catalonia region. His entire family, including his grandmother, was packed into a 900-square-foot home. So it is not a surprise that Mr. Fernández, 42, feels at home in the Dum…