Mikhail Prokhorov doesn’t seem very impressed with the Nets

Prokhorov is determined to be more involved with the Nets now and he said at his press conference on Monday that he expects the Nets to be championship contenders next season. Yes.

The Boston Celtics’ Brad Stevens and Memphis Grizzlies’ Dave Joerger both offered support for Lionel Hollins after the Brooklyn Nets fired their head coach Sunday.

The search for a new General Manager is now underway for Brooklyn.

The San Antonio Spurs have one of the best effective field goal percentages this season, ranking second in the league with an EFF% of 53.4%.

NEW YORK (AP) – The Spurs are the NBA’s pillar of consistency and stability, an organization these Nets could only hope to resemble – on the court and in the front office.

Forward LaMarcus Aldridge collected 25 points and 11 rebounds, and the San Antonio Spurs matched the best start in team history with a 106-79 rout of the Brooklyn Nets.

When Prokhorov met with reporters today, he said it was important that the team develop an identity, and that he’d be speaking with general-manager candidates about their strategy to build a victor. I haven’t been here the last five days, but I talked to those guys the other day after they beat us at home, and then we went back up there. In fact, they just lost their starting point guard, Jarrett Jack, for the season with a torn ACL.

“I don’t know, he’s playing great”, Aldridge said. “It was just very easy”.

Prokhorov took the blame for the Nets’ poor play and called for a “small reset”. However, the Spurs owned the third quarter outscoring Brooklyn, 32-18 and opened up the game to a blowout. Even tonight, I am looking forward to the game, get away from all interviews, all the little things you have to do organizational-wise as far as making decisions. “They’re one of those teams that’s a solid veteran team that you have to be on top of your game”. San Antonio shot 54.0 percent in those games compared to 44.1 against the Knicks, but they didn’t feel there was a letdown.

Fans cheered loudest for 7-foot-3 Serbian Boban Marjanovic, who finished 13 points and was on the floor in the final seconds when a “Go Spurs Go!” chant broke out. Donald Sloan made his first start as a Net and Sergey Karasev of Russian Federation made a rare appearance, scoring two points in his first possession.

League sources were skeptical that Vatutin would take on the day to day GM duties, but that naming him President of Basketball and having him hire a proven NBA staff under him seemed more likely, if it happened at all. In almost one and a half seasons with the Nets, Hollins compiled a 48-71 record. While Popovich declined to comment on the high turnover rate on Brooklyn’s sideline – “I don’t run anybody else’s business” – he did note that the recently axed Hollins is “a heck of a coach”. He has only good thing to say about Hollins.