It was a month ago Wednesday that Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov fired Lionel Hollins and demoted Billy King in a housecleaning that reshaped the future of his club. When Prokhorov met the media the next day, he pointed to Rondae Hollis-Jefferson, Chris McCullough and Markel Brown as building blocks for that future.
The Russian billionaire repeated the same trio as linchpins, not once but twice that day. Now, with the All-Star break looming, McCullough and Brown are giving Nets fans who suffered through a tough first half of the season something to look forward to in the second.