Billy King

Hopefully Joe Johnson enjoys playing out another year of his twilight with the listless Brooklyn Nets. Because he isn’t going anywhere. Not by the Nets’ hands at least. Some have speculated that Brooklyn would look to deal Joe Johnson’s expiring contract after firing head coach Lionel Hollins and reassigning general manager Billy King. But, as [...]

The Brooklyn Nets aren’t about to cry over a little 0-7 start to the 2015-16 season. General manager Billy King will, however, listen to various trade proposals. The Nets are enduring some seriously turbulent times to start the year. They’re significantly less talented on paper than they were last season, and the absence of Deron [...]

Paul Pierce made the Brooklyn Nets look confusing. It was barely a year ago that the Nets were selling fans on a mortgaged future because it meant the arrivals of Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Jason Kidd. Two of those guys are now gone, the most noteworthy of whom is Pierce. He left for the [...]

Nice try Billy King and Mikhail Prokhorov, but the Brooklyn Nets aren’t fooling anyone. According to Mike Mazzeo of ESPNNewYork.com, the Nets have reportedly not contacted Phil Jackson with regard to the coaching vacancy they created when they fired Avery Johnson: Despite high-profile names like Phil Jackson and Jeff Van Gundy being tossed around, Brooklyn [...]

Avery Johnson is out for the Brooklyn Nets, that much we know. But is general manager Billy King destined to be the next to go? Per Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports, the Nets elected fire Johnson after the team got off to a 14-14 start. The Brooklyn Nets have fired coach Avery Johnson, league source [...]

February 29, 2012 – Griffin Gotta Deron Williams and the New Jersey Nets were in Dallas last night, which meant another round of Will You Be Playing Here Next Season? talk for Williams, a native of the Dallas area. [...]

September 28, 2010 – THD Rumor Patrol How uncomfortable must it be for Devin Harris and Derrick Favors to be starting practices with the NJ Nets knowing that the team is hoping to trade you for a shot at Carmelo Anthony…. Billy King has reached the point we all were waiting for him to with [...]

September 26, 2010 – THD Rumor Patrol Wow, it looks like the new russian owner of the New Jersey Nets, Mikhail Prokhorov, is trying to make a big splash in his debut season as owner. If the Nets land Carmelo Anthony at the end of all this speculation you may see New Jersey have the [...]

August 12, 2008 – Dr. Dime Well it’s about damn time, huh? I was very happy tonight to hear about the Philadelphia 76ers paying their main man his due. Well at least he was the main man until this summer when the Sixers hit the jackpot by landing Elton Brand, one of the top power [...]

Dr. Anklesnap Lebron’s 2008 Cleveland Cavaliers and Allen Iverson’s 2001 Philadelphia 76er’s have more in common than just captain Eric Snow. I’ll get to that in a minute though, for now I must say Cav’s GM Danny Ferry took a [...]