Nets coach Lionel Hollins is on the hot seat, according to reports from both Russia and the NBA’s website. And even though a Nets official dismissed the reports, Hollins himself admits his seat was hot the minute he put his butt in it.

“The seat’s always hot. It was hot when I sat in it for the first time as a coach. It’s a hot seat,’’ Hollins said Monday. “Whatever goes down in that regard, I have no control over that. I don’t even worry about it, I don’t think about it, I don’t read about it. When it happens, it’ll probably be a surprise when it does — if it happens. But it’s just a job.’’

But for how much longer? Russian news agency TASS reported Hollins will be fired as soon as a replacement can be found, with a team source saying “the coach’s credibility is at an end.”

This comes on the heels of NBA.com ranking Hollins high on a list of coaches on the hot seat, adding: “This just isn’t working and everyone knows it.”

The Nets are 5-15 a quarter of the way through the NBA season, and have been absolutely dreadful on the road, losing 11 of their dozen games away from Brooklyn.

Speaking of Barclays Center, billionaire Russian owner Mikhail Prokhorov made a rare cameo appearance at Sunday’s game, watching his team get lit up by the Warriors and the building taken over by fans cheering for Stephen Curry and chanting “MVP! MVP!” as he took free throws.

Asked if he had any conversation with his boss before or after the game, Hollins said, “I didn’t even see him.”

The Nets have had four coaches since moving to Brooklyn in 2012-13, in Avery Johnson, P.J. Carlesimo, Jason Kidd and Hollins.

“Every job you have, you’re hired to be fired at some point, whether you win 56 games as I was before, or you don’t win,’’ said Hollins, who got fired after a 56-win campaign in Memphis amid talk of personality clashes with upper management.

“It’s just the nature of this business, and reporters and bloggers and fans and everybody has their opinion about what should be done, what’s wrong. I have no control. All I can do is come to work every day and do my job. And when it’s over, if somebody calls me up and says you’re not here anymore, I pack my [stuff] up and I go home.’’

He’d go home well-paid. Hollins is just entering the second season of a four-year deal, with three of them fully guaranteed. That means if Brooklyn wants to replace Hollins, he’ll be owed the rest of this season’s salary as well as next season’s, which is more than $5 million.