Welcome to the Brooklyn Nets! Where mediocrity is the goal, and where having no future and an under .500 record can possibly get you a raise. Sounds like a pretty sweet company to work for. Can you tell I’m a disgruntled Nets fan?
According to Zach Lowe of Grantland, there are “serious rumblings” that Billy King will get an extension to continue to be the General Manager of the team.
ESPN’s Mike Mazzeo is also reporting that King could be on the verge of getting an extension, but that there is also some turmoil currently in the Nets front office.
From Mazzeo:
King, who is entering the final year of his deal in 2015-16, has made some ill-fated big moves during his tenure with the Nets, but ownership has repeatedly praised him,” Mazzeo writes. “It is possible that King may end up making some changes in the front office, however. Assistant GM Bobby Marks, who specializes in cap management, did not have his May 1 option picked up.”
Marks has been with the team for 20 years and was known as a “cap expert” as well has a very respected person in the organization. Lowe reports that some are unhappy with Marks’ option not being picked and are unhappy with the thought of King getting an extension.
Even though King still has one year left on his deal, and hasn’t really done much for the Nets, NetsDaily reports that as long as Mikhal Prokhorov is the owner, King isn’t going anywhere.
“A well-placed league source told NetsDaily recently There hasn’t been even a discussion of (a contract extension.) However, King is known to be in the good graces of both Mikhail Prokhorov and Dmitry Razumov, the Nets chairman of the board with whom he has interacted on virtually every transaction. Adrian Wojnarowski has reported that as long as Prokhorov owns the team, King is likely to stay as GM.”
It makes perfect sense. Why wouldn’t you want to extend the guy who traded and swapped every first round draft pick from 2012 all the way until 2019, for guys who either are all older than Celtics head coach (Brad Stevens), just aren’t good players anymore, and let alone aren’t even on the team! (Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett, Jason Terry.)
