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Nets GM’s hope: Deron Williams is addition by subtraction

Billy King probably didn’t mean to do it, but with one answer, the Nets general manager essentially summed up the intended consequences of the divorce that will hang over his team’s season.

“I like the guys’ attitudes towards each other,” King said Tuesday afternoon when asked what he liked about the Nets after watching most of the players go through informal workouts together at the practice facility the past few weeks. “I think they have a genuine liking and care for each other. If you’re willing to do that, then you’re willing to sacrifice on both ends of the floor for each other.