Report: Nets' GM made exploratory calls
The Brooklyn Nets are currently facing one of the toughest situations in recent NBA memory, and general manager Billy King may not be able to sit idly by for much longer.
King has reportedly made exploratory trade calls, according to Newsday's Rod Boone.
That the winless Nets might be looking to shake things up should come as no surprise. How, exactly, the Nets will improve their outlook is the real head-scratcher.
The 0-7 Nets find themselves without much young talent to develop or deal, and without control of their own first-round draft pick until 2019, thanks to the blockbuster 2013 trade that brought Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett to Brooklyn.
As for the team's more established players, both Brook Lopez and Thaddeus Young are locked up for the next three years, while Joe Johnson, who's in the final year of a contract that will pay him nearly $25 million this year, has averaged 10.3 points on 33 percent shooting so far this season.
For his part, King sounds as though he's painfully aware of the corner he's painted himself into.
"We didn't get here overnight and we are not going to get out of it overnight," King told Boone. "There is not something where it's 'OK, this is the magic wand and we are going to do this and it's going to change overnight.'
"We knew that going in. We knew that when we made those decisions and it didn't work. And so now we've got to gradually, systematically dig yourself out of it.''
The Nets will look to begin righting the ship Wednesday in Houston.