Over the course of nearly six years, Billy King parted ways with seven first round draft picks, and, in hindsight, of course, it looks awful. You can argue that his “win-now” mentality doomed the Brooklyn Nets for subsequent years because he traded their future for a handful of guys who couldn’t challenge in the Eastern Conference.
An aging Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce, Deron Williams, and Gerald Wallace were some of the pieces that got exchanged for many first rounders. Three of them alone were for KG and Pierce, with Jason Terry and D.