Billy King tilted his shoulder against a wall early Friday night as a group of assembled reporters lobbed questions about the Nets’ troublesome start to the season.
King, the team’s general manager, insisted that he was still “upbeat and positive” about the group, which had lost its first five games. Things were not all bad, he said, pointing to a good half the Nets played last week against the San Antonio Spurs (a game they lost, 102-75) and the fact that center Brook Lopez had looked pretty strong.
But perhaps the most positive thing King could say about those five games was that the Nets had one fewer meeting remaining with each of the teams that had beaten them.