Billy King wants another chance to help an NBA team in a front-office capacity. He also hopes the infamous trade he engineered while general manager of the Brooklyn Nets in 2013 doesn’t overshadow everything else he did in basketball.
I’m sure Gen. George Armstrong Custer would have liked for his military career to have been known for something besides that little incident at Little Bighorn, too, but Custer — and King — prove that if you make a bad enough decision, that becomes your legacy.
King told Chris Mannix of SI’s The Crossover about the legacy wish.