When Sean Marks called Brook Lopez last Tuesday to tell him that management had decided to shut things down, Lopez said he talked about his reasoning.
"I think two people had gotten injured playing in meaningless games finishing up the season," Lopez said before the Nets lost to the Pelicans Sunday. "So he just wanted to take sort of a precautionary angle going forward. He said he wanted to sit down, get lunch or dinner, something like that, and talk about what I see going forward, what his plans are, I guess, prepping already.