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Notebook: Nets Prepare for Melo-Drama, Avery Sounds Off, Warriors Eye Kerr

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- We're not talking fake nose and mustache incognito here, but Billy King just might keep his head down and walk in the shadows on Saturday night at the Pepsi Center. The first-year New Jersey general manager is on the road with his young and struggling team, and Saturday night's game in Denver will be...

Eric LeGrand Fund Gets $75K Infusion From New Jersey Nets

A fund established for Eric LeGrand, the Rutgers football player who was recently paralyzed, got a major boost on Monday as the New Jersey Nets announced they would donate $75,000. "The Nets have always been at the forefront in community involvement, and we could think of no greater cause to get involved with than the...

Nets Tab Billy King to Replace Thorn

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) -- Mikhail Prokhorov got his King after all. No! Not LeBron. Another King -- Billy. The former Philadelphia 76ers general manager and president was hired Wednesday to replace Rod Thorn as the team's top executive, Prokhorov announced in a release. Contract terms were not immediately...

Will Cheeks Follow King Out the Door?

Billy King was fired on Tuesday; will Maurice Cheeks make it to the end of the week? We'll have to wait and see, because on his first day on the job, new Sixers president Ed Stefanski gave no indication what other changes might be in store aside from telling reporters he's "evaluating top to bottom. From the Philadelphia...

Report: 76ers Will 86 Billy King

Billy King's reign of terror as 76ers team president will end in Philadelphia later today, according to the Inquirer's David Aldridge. He'll be replaced by current Nets GM Ed Stefanski, who is expected to sign a mulityear deal today.I can't remember the last time a team poached a front office executive from a division...

Billy King News From the Web

05/23/12 Nets have plenty of offseason uncertainty besides... Source: NJ.com Besides the top priority of trying to re-sign free-agent-to-be Deron Williams, Nets general manager Billy King will have a lot of work assembling the team's roster for next season.
05/23/12 Billy King talks Otis Smith, Dwight Howard rumors and... Source: The InterNets - New York Daily News Billy King worked closely with Otis Smith over the last five months, forging an on-again-off-again-on-again-off-again trade for Dwight Howard that fizzled in the 11 th hour.
05/21/12 N.C. Senate 21 recount under way Source: Fayetteville Observer - Fayetteville NC The recount in the N.C. Senate 21 race is under way this morning in Cumberland County.
05/20/12 Nets' Lopez returns to practice court Source: New York Post - New York NY At his end-of-season press conference, Nets general manager Billy King said Brook Lopez was scheduled to meet with doctors this week, and would resume workouts if everything went well.
05/19/12 Nets center Brook Lopez, 'making progress' according... Source: NJ.com While the focus of the attention Saturday afternoon at the Nets' workout facility was the two dozen or so college prospects, there was one bit of news that impacted the team.

Background on Billy King

Billy King (born January 23, 1966) is the general manager of the New Jersey Nets, and former general manager and team president of the Philadelphia 76ers.

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