In an interview with CBS Sports Radio on the eve of the Draft, the first of three that the Nets are likely to give up a good pick to Boston, the architect of the Nets first four years in Brooklyn defended his tenure as a "win now" effort driven by Mikhail Prokhorov. In fact, Billy King seemed to be subtly shifting responsibility to ownership for the mistakes that led to the Nets into their current predicament.
"We took a calculated gamble and it didn’t work. So when you work for owners in any sport, it’s their team and you try to go with their guidance and what they want to do, and then you try to educate them and you try to advise them.