http://newyork.cbslocal.com/audio/joe-b ... n-roberts/
On Billy King:
"The question in Brooklyn is with ownership and how soon Prokhorov will sell his share of the team.
Billy signed a three year extension last year so he's in the second year of a three year deal. I think, the way it's been told to me is he will continue there with this ownership group. You usually don't see high management changes when a team is sold. If someone is going to buy the team and come in, they want to come in and look at, they want to make a decision on who the new GM is or a potential new GM. So I think for right now, as long as Prokhorov owns the team, I don't see a change in the offing. I think it would be ... especially when you're in that place where a new owner, someone is going to pay $2 billion to buy the Nets, they're going to want to put in their own management or at least have a say in examining King and how they're going to go there. So, I think barring this team getting sold in the short term here and then the league approving the sale I think he will continue to go forward here on the job."
On Prokhorov:
"He's an absentee owner. This idea that he was going to have a great impact with free agents, players. Now they wound up doing most of their ... they tried in free agency and struck out. Then, they went all in on the Deron Williams and the Gerald Wallace and then brought in Pierce and Garnett, it was all through trades. But he's been an absentee owner. In this league, you've got to be involved, really put your imprint on it. If you look at successful organizations, you can't do it from across the world. I don't care who you put in place to be here and do it. You have to be a part of that. And I think he could have an impact if he was around but he wasnt and so, we all oversold what his impact would be. Spending money and going deep into the luxury tax --we saw it with the Knicks-- just doesn't work and you're seeing the results of that now."
On Trades:
"It's too soon to tell, Evan. I wish I had an answer for ya. Their talks with Denver, they haven't reconnected on Lopez in well over a week, almost two weeks, at least 10 days, they haven't spoken to Denver. That may start up again. Denver is engaged with a bunch of teams on a few different guys that they have.
"Deron Williams? That contract, if you suspected you'd be unable to move it, you know now that you're not moving it with the money left on his deal and the state of his game right now. It's not going to happen.
"Joe Johnson? I don't know. That's a lot of money for somebody to take on. Charlotte did have interest, but you've seen Charlotte now go out and Arron Afflalo is a less expensive alternative as a rental at shooting guard and you'll see teams going after him. Joe Johnson just makes so much money.
"So I think Lopez would be the one possibility. and Oklahoma City, I think they still have interest in Lopez but they have not re-engaged. That could start up again possibly, but Oklahoma City was pretty adamant on 'here's the package we want to do for him.' They didn't want to give up any more. Now, they may feel differently at the trade deadline but maybe they get the Nets involved in a three-way or maybe a four-way, a bigger deal but that stuff hasn't started to develop yet. I'm sure it will here now. Over the weekend, you'll see a lot of executives are here n New York. A lot of them will be over at Basketball without Borders, looking at the young international prospects and that triggers conversations again with people."
Woj also goes on to say the Nets are an attractive market in New York but much like the Knicks and Lakers. The Nets won't attract big-time free agents without becoming a good organization.
Wooohooo. What a bright future we have here. Proky needs to sell. I'm so done with him. He's a complete joke.
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