Nets' GM says no fire sale but 'if things make sense you make trades'

Brooklyn Nets general manager Billy King doesn't seem ready to hit the self-destruct button on the team's roster. He does seem to know where it's located, though.

Earlier this week, reports surfaced that the Nets were looking to move on from their expensive core of Deron Williams, Joe Johnson and Brook Lopez, the league's highest paid trio. King cleared up on Friday that the team isn't actively looking to blow things up, but certain realities of his position have him considering all options.

As King explained, courtesy of the New York Post:

My job is to listen to people and to make calls and to make calls back.

Does that mean we’re having a fire sale? Absolutely not. I’m doing my job, as well as asking the players and the coaches to do their job. But my job is to work the phones, see what’s available.

If things make sense you make trades. If they don’t, you don’t do it. But we’re not shopping or having a fire sale.

That doesn't exactly sound like a ringing endorsement of a roster that had hoped to be much better than their current 9-12 mark, considering they comprise the league's largest payroll.

The reality is that trading any of those players would be a somewhat difficult proposition, though not an impossible one. Johnson's deal is simply too expensive for most trade scenarios to be feasible, Williams' deal extends beyond 2016, when most teams want to remain flexible, and Lopez has underperformed some and struggled to stay on the floor.

All contracts are tradeable, and all three of these players remain talented. King would just have his work cut out for him in finding trades that work. He's listening, if you have any ideas, fellow GMs.