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Jimmy Spencer: Sacramento Kings assign Hassan Whiteside to the Reno Bighorns of the NBA Development League Twitter

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Westphal said that had been discussed but no decision had been made to send Whiteside to the D-League. The Bighorns are coached by former Kings and Warriors coach Eric Musselman. Sacramento Bee

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While talking to folks for Sunday's column about rookie Hassan Whiteside, I learned that longtime NBA scout/assistant Brendan Suhr has taken over basketball operations at Central Florida University. (Whiteside's former coaches at Marshall relocated to Central Florida at the end of the 2009 -10 season). What makes this interesting is that Suhr, who spent almost a decade on Mike Fratello's staff in Atlanta before joining Chuck Daly in Detroit, was the lead assistant on the Pistons' 1989-90 Championship teams .... headed by Isiah Thomas. All of which means Suhr will be recruiting against his former superstar, currently the head coach at Florida International. Sacramento Bee

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By falling into the second round of last month’s NBA Draft, many thought Gastonia’s Hassan Whiteside lost all of his leverage in negotiating a rookie contract. Instead, the Sacramento Kings have rewarded Whiteside with a contract comparable to a player who slipped in the 2009 NBA Draft – San Antonio’s DeJuan Blair. According to the Charleston, W.Va., Daily Mail, Whiteside signed a four-year contract worth $3.8 million. The first two years of the deal are guaranteed for $1.76 million. If the Kings guarantee the final two years of his contract, he’d make $986,000 in his third season and $1.054 million in his fourth year. Gaston Gazette

The Sacramento Kings today signed rookie center-forward Hassan Whiteside to a contract, it was announced by Kings’ President of Basketball Operations Geoff Petrie. Terms of the contract were not disclosed. Whiteside was Sacramento’s second round selection (33rd overall) of the 2010 NBA Draft out of Marshall University as an undergraduate. Sactown Royalty

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In the second round, Hobson watched as teams like the Sacramento Kings and New Jersey Nets passed on him after showing significant interest and making it clear that he would be their guy if he somehow dropped out of the first. Instead, both teams went with the best players available in Hassan Whiteside and Tibor Pleiss. If one team was able to move up or others had kept their word, Hobson would have been a first round pick. But instead, he slipped on draft night and will now play with a chip on his shoulder as he looks to show those teams what they missed out on. HoopsWorld

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Sam Amick: A scout told me Whiteside fell because of "a severe case of ADD," but Petrie said his medicals were fine and that ADD wasn't part of them. Twitter

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"He's going to have to figure out how he's going to address it, whether it's medication that's prescribed that helps him be better and that he'll probably take to get better," Buck said by phone. "At Marshall ... he was on medication he didn't like and didn't think was good for him. He stopped taking it. "If he takes it and he's better, people are going to be mad they didn't take him earlier (in the draft). If he uses this as fuel, he could be really good, and teams will be sorry they didn't take him." FanHouse.com

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"I heard throughout the process that teams were concerned about his readiness to play, and a little bit of the lack of experience he had, the level he played at," Buck said. "We're still surprised, but the silver lining is he had two teams he wanted to go to and Sac was one of them." FanHouse.com

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