Okafor continues to sit, despite pleas from fans

As the fourth quarter drew on and the Nets’ rout of the Wizards drew out Friday night, a chant of “We Want Okafor! We Want Okafor!” got louder and louder.

But the Nets’ newest big man never got off the bench.

It was about the only disappointment the 15,589 at Barclays Center had to complain about in the Nets’ 119-84 rout of Washington on Friday night.

“Yeah, I heard it, and I respect the fans and I understand they want to see him,” Nets coach Kenny Atkinson said of the chants. “I think we’ve stated from the beginning there’s a plan for him. We’re going to stick with the plan. It was tempting, but again I think we want to put him in the best posi- tion to succeed. So we’re going to stick with the plan. I think that’s a little more down the line.”

Okafor was acquired from the 76ers on Dec. 7, while the Nets were on their two-game trip to Mexico City. Inactivity while he was with Philadelphia — he played just 25 minutes this season — hurt the center’s conditioning.

General manager Sean Marks said on WFAN that Okafor is still a couple of weeks away from reaching optimal fitness.

“I’d hate to put an exact date on it. Depending on how he feels, we’re going day-to-day,” Marks said. “I’d assume he’s still probably a week-and-a-half or two weeks away from where he feels comfortable out there and be able to play at the pace in which Kenny [Atkinson] and his staff want to play at.”

Allen Crabbe had seven points and hit 1-of-5 from 3-point range. He’s now 13-of-50 from deep (26.0 percent) in his last six games.

The Nets were a season-high plus-25 on the glass Friday, their biggest positive rebounding margin since the 2012-13 season, when they outrebounded Philadelphia 67-34 on April 9.

Rondae Hollis-Jefferson had 21 points, 11 rebounds and six assists in 24 minutes, the first player since Grant Hill (in 1995-96 with the Pistons) to notch 20 points, 10 rebounds and six assists in 24 or fewer minutes.