Avery Johnson believes that despite the addition of Joe Johnson and the scheduled return of Deron Williams, Gerald Wallace, Brook Lopez and Kris Humphries, the Nets aren't championship-ready just yet.
"We're not there yet, we're not a championship team," Johnson said. "We've got a lot of work to do, but at the same time we have a much better talent pool than we've had in the last two years."
Johnson said he and Billy King were never overly concerned that Williams would sign elsewhere.
"We felt we were going to be able to re-sign Deron," Johnson said. "We felt it was like 80-90 percent, but it was the 10 percent that you were worried about.
"That was the whole key. But I'm glad that's all behind us now and we can move forward and we can have a team that we're hoping is going to be pretty competitive when we get it on the floor."