Brooklyn Nets Rumors
Candace Buckner: Final: Brooklyn wins 115-104. #Wizards fall to 5-10 on the season
Fred Katz: Kenny Atkinson on the Wizards: “I expect them to be a top team in the East when it’s all said and done. They’ll be in the mix to be in the top end of this division.”
Greg Logan: #JarrettAllen & #AllenCrabbe in starting lineup for @Brooklyn Nets. Kenny Atkinson says @Caris LeVert not on this trip but might travel with team soon because he’s “walking around a little bit,”
Michael Gallagher: Jarrett Allen is available and Rondae Hollis-Jefferson (ankle) is out for tonight’s game at Washington, per Nets.
King wears The Trade like a scarlet letter. It’s the first line of his resume. It’s in the first paragraph of his Wikipedia page. Others involved in The Trade have moved on. Bobby Marks—King’s assistant GM—is a respected insider at ESPN. Frank Zanin, then the Nets director of player procurement, was scooped up as a pro scout with Oklahoma City. King left the Nets after the 2015-16 season. He has had little more than a whiff of NBA interest since. “I sensed that it was going to linger,” King told The Crossover. “It was going to be something that I have to overcome. I think a lot of people within the business that I talk to, they know what was going on. But the outside noise sometimes overshadows the inside noise.”
It’s overstating it to say the deal haunts King. But it’s close. He admits he revisits it in his mind routinely. He thinks about the number of picks he included, and what would have happened if he fought to take one of them off the table. He thinks about the swap rights, and what might have been had he said no. Said King, “I go back and forth all the time.” The timing bothers him the most. Boston and Brooklyn agreed to the deal early on draft night, and King and his team spent the rest of the evening convincing Garnett to commit to playing for them. “I should have said, ‘Give me a day to think about it, let’s talk in the morning,” King told The Crossover. “I should have regrouped everyone, and gone through it again. I should have told Danny, ‘Give me a day.’ I probably would have revamped it. I should have said, ‘Look, Danny, everything looks good. Let’s finish the draft and let’s talk in the morning.’ That’s one thing I would have done differently, for sure.”
