Deron Williams and Brook Lopez didn’t get on the court for the first 11½ minutes of Monday’s game. They weren’t even the first off the bench, becoming the seventh and eighth men.
By the end of a 107-99 victory over the Kings, the point guard and center played 17 and 13 minutes, respectively.
Lionel Hollins, clearly losing patience with the questions about Brooklyn’s former cornerstones, indicated that his controversial rotation is here to stay.
“Yes, they were starters, they’ve been out and if you note, while they were out we started playing better and winning, so why would I go back and change the lineup now?”, the coach said.