Mikhail Prokhorov is declining to answer questions about important people's job performances

The Nets are just 3-11 on the season and might be looking at a couple more losses in the face, getting ready to face the Thunder and then the Cavaliers on the road. So, with 3-13 seeming inevitable, you have to wonder about the fate of guys like the coach, Lionel Hollins, and the general manager, Billy King. 

Team owner Mikhail Prokhorov, who rarely talks to the media but who is usually straight forward with his answers when he does, is now being a little more cryptic in their job evaluations. Prokhorov recently did a email Q&A with the Bergen Record, and in it, he actually ended up leaving out some important information.

Here's more, including an important observation, from Devin Kharpertian of The Brooklyn Game:

Neither Hollins nor King have proven to be winning so getting rid of either of them down the line would make sense. Of course, the terrible situation in Brooklyn is more King's fault than Hollins'. Regardless of what you think of the Nets' coach as a tactician or locker room leader, it's hard to argue he was ever given a chance to win in Brooklyn given the rosters he was handed over the past two years. 

This doesn't necessarily mean those guys' jobs are in jeopardy at the moment, though. King has been the Nets' general manager since 2010, even though we figured out years ago he isn't quite the best ship captain in the world. Maybe the best trick ever pulled by a GM is him somehow surviving into this season. The fact that he's still here even after making trades like the Kevin Garnett/Paul Pierce one, the Joe Johnson one and the Gerald Wallace one shows that even in a 3-11 season, it's no guarantee he's leaving any time soon. 

Still, at the moment, it would be hard for Prokhorov to say anything positive about either of those two guys without sounding disingenuous. And it would only lead to controversy and wild speculation if he said something negative about either of them. In the end, considering this format was done in an email exchange and not over the phone or in a face-to-face interview, declining to respond to the questions about Hollins and King was probably the Nets owner's only choice.