Former GM King Feels He Could’ve Turned Nets Around

In his first interview since being dumped as Nets GM in January, Billy King tells two NBA beat writers he thinks he could have turned things around if he had been permitted to stay on, but says he does not “begrudge” ownership for wanting a “different voice” in shaping the team.  Still, he admits to “bitter fieelings”

Jabari Young of the San Antonio Express-News and Vincent Goodwill of the Comcast Sports Net in Chicago devoted most of the interview, conducted last week, to a discussion of how to increase African-Americans in NBA front offices, but at the end of the 40-minute discussion asked King about his departure from the Nets, billed at the time as a “reassignment.”

King then reflected on his job with the Nets. “I know some of the mistakes that were made here and I i thought I could have turned it around but ownership … that’s their prerogative, [but] you still spent time trying to figure out what’s next.”

Source: Jabari Young of the San Antonio Express-News and Vincent Goodwill of the Comcast Sports Net