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D'Angelo Russell Rumors
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Position: G
Born: 02/23/96
Height: 6-5 / 1.96
Weight:176 lbs. / 79.8 kg.
Salary: $7,019,698
Born: 02/23/96
Height: 6-5 / 1.96
Weight:176 lbs. / 79.8 kg.
Salary: $7,019,698
Anthony Puccio: Caris LeVert said he texted D’Angelo Russell right after the injury and told him, “We have everything we need, even with me going down. We just need everything from everybody.” (On @Brooklyn Nets Periscope)
Asked if he faces the biggest adjustment of anyone, Russell said, “I’ve played [23] minutes without him. It’s going to take a little bit of time to figure out what we’re going to do. But as of right now, I don’t know, so I’m not really going to speak on what we can do. We’ve just got to figure it out.”
The Nets view LeVert and Allen as core pieces long-term. Instead of using them as trade bait, the Nets kicked the tires briefly on talks involving D’Angelo Russell, Rondae Hollis-Jefferson and a salary filler for Butler that never got any traction, league sources told The Athletic.
Caris LeVert scored 26 points, D’Angelo Russell added 15 and the Nets won their third game in the past four, while the Suns have lost eight of nine. Devin Booker led Phoenix with 20 points but made just 6 of 21 shots. Deandre Ayton had 15 points and a season-high 13 rebounds. “We just tried to make every shot tough, every catch tough,” LeVert said. “We did a good job of that.” Brooklyn held the Suns to a season low in points and field goal shooting at 34.6 percent. “We’re growing up in terms of our physicality on the defensive end,” Nets head coach Kenny Atkinson said.
“We never really stopped the bleeding. They made shots, we made shots. They made 3s, we made 2s, so it was tough to put a hand on that,” said Russell didn’t play a second in the fourth quarter. “It’s hard to tell. I’ll look at the game film, see what I can do early in the game to dictate if I’m playing in the end. But we have a lot of guys who are capable of doing a lot of things. So whatever Kenny says goes.”
