NBA Trade News & Rumors: Brooklyn Nets' Brook Lopez, Deron Williams & Joe Johnson on the Trading Block?

It may be a three-fold trade for the Brooklyn Nets, with Deron Williams, Brook Lopez and Joe Johnson reportedly set to be pushed to the trading block.

With an 8-11 start back in Dec. 9, the New York Daily News already reported that the Nets lineup was not in sync with "hard-nosed coach" Lionel Hollins, and the team already engaged others in trade proposals, ESPN.com noted a day later.

"...[T]hose 19 games have provided enough of a sample size for the organization to have determined that it can't win at the level it wants to with the current core crop of players," said Pro Basketball Talk.

"League sources told ESPN.com that the Nets ... looking to retool after last season's $190 million roster filled with veterans couldn't advance beyond the second round of the playoffs, have let it be known that they are prepared to move any of those franchise cornerstones in what would likely be separate deals," it said.

According to XN Sports, this trade would happen just months after the Brooklyn Nets let forward Andrei Kirilenko go.

"...[T]he next to go could be the team's Big Three of Brook Lopez, Deron Williams, and Joe Johnson," said the report, adding that it is somehow puzzling since the team, 16-21, is No. 2 in the Atlantic division.

The lineup is high-salary, with the three players involved in the rumors themselves getting multimillions, per ESPN.

Two more years, worth $21 million and $22.3 million, remain in Williams' five-year, $98-million deal, and he has not shown an All-Star performance, ESPN noted.

Lopez, who struck a $60-million, four-year deal in 2012, has one more season after 2014-15, and is bugged by back and foot injuries, ESPN added. Johnson will walk away post-season with $23.2 million, the third-highest player in the NBA, and will get a $1.7-million increase in the next season.

Hollins has called out Lopez for being "lazy," XN Sports said. "The three aren't having terrible seasons, but clearly aren't producing as much as was expected."

Lopez is in a rut, with career-low 26.3 minutes per game and 15.0 ppg average stats, the report said. "Williams is continuing his steady decline, averaging only 13.9 ppg (like Lopez, the lowest of his career since his rookie year) and is shooting below 40 percent from the field."

It added: "Johnson leads the team in scoring with 16.5 ppg and is arguably having the best season of the bunch with numbers right around his season averages in most major categories. Still, he certainly isn't capable of leading a team deep into the playoffs on his own."

"We're on the phones, we're talking to people, but there's nothing imminent," the New York Daily News quoted Nets general manager Billy King.