David Nwaba Rumors
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Position: G
Born: 01/14/93
Height: 6-5 / 1.96
Weight:210 lbs. / 95.3 kg.
Salary: $2,581,965
Born: 01/14/93
Height: 6-5 / 1.96
Weight:210 lbs. / 95.3 kg.
Salary: $2,581,965
Salman Ali: Houston likely waived someone to take on Nwaba.
Rockets add David Nwaba
Shams Charania: Free agent David Nwaba has agreed to a two-year deal with the Houston Rockets, sources tell @The Athletic @Stadium.
Bobby Marks: Brooklyn has officially waived David Nwaba. He will clear waivers on Jan. 5 at 5PM EST. Important to note that Nwaba can be claimed and aggregated with additional salary before the Feb. 6 deadline. The claiming restriction applies for 30-days.
The Brooklyn Nets have requested waivers on guard/forward David Nwaba. Nwaba appeared in 20 games for Brooklyn this season, recording averages of 5.2 points and 2.3 rebounds in 13.4 minutes per contest. He signed with the Nets on July 17, 2019.
Nets Daily: Nets can’t officially sign @Justin Anderson to a 10-day until Sunday. @David Nwaba will have cleared waivers by then. Next question is whether @Timothe Luwawu will get standard NBA contract soon. Two points re 10-day. It can be renewed once for another 10 days and player can be cut anytime.
However, two-way contracts in the NBA come with restrictions. Once a player spends 45 days —not games— with the parent club, the team must either give the player a standard deal or send him back to the G League for good. There’s no public accounting of days (which includes games, travel and practices) so we don’t know how many days he has left before the Nets have to decided, but he’s now in the rotation. (Teams have been known to keep two-way players out of practices to keep the numbers down.) So what’s the solution? The Nets could waive Nwaba to open up a spot so they sign Luwawu-Cabarrot. That would also open up TLC’s two-way deal which the Nets could fill and protect one of their more prized Long Island Nets players from being called up by another team. They’d have to do all that by January 15, the last day teams can sign two-ways.
Ian Begley: The Brooklyn Nets were among the teams that expressed strong interest in signing Rayjon Tucker, per SNY sources. Brooklyn, presumably, would have added Tucker via a Disabled Player Exception created in the wake of David Nwaba’s season-ending surgery to repair a ruptured Achilles.
David Nwaba out for the season
Brooklyn Nets guard/forward David Nwaba underwent successful surgery today to repair a ruptured right Achilles tendon. The procedure was performed by Dr. Martin O’Malley at the Hospital for Special Surgery. The injury, which occurred during last night’s game at San Antonio, will result in Nwaba missing the remainder of the season.
Alex Schiffer: Per @ShamsCharania, the Nets have applied for a disabled player exception from the NBA for season-ending loss of David Nwaba.
David Nwaba suffers season-ending injury
Shams Charania: Nets G/F David Nwaba has suffered a torn right Achilles tendon, league sources tell @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium. Nwaba has been emerging in Nets rotation before sudden injury tonight.
Chris Haynes: Brooklyn Nets swigman David Nwaba will undergo surgery tomorrow after suffering a torn right Achilles this evening, league sources tell Yahoo Sports.
Brian Lewis: David Nwaba is in tonight for the #Nets at the #Spurs.
Brian Lewis: David Nwaba (ankle) is probable for the #Nets tomorrow at the #Spurs. He’s been stellar defensively, and surprising offensively. #nba
“Obviously, we’re missing three of our best players,” said center DeAndre Jordan, who referenced the absence of Irving (right shoulder impingement) with shooting guard Caris LeVert (right thumb sprain/surgery) and wing Kevin Durant (right Achilles tear/rehab). “Any team would say that sucks, but it gives other guys opportunities, like (wing) David Nwaba, (shooting guard Dzanan) Musa, (forward) Rodi(ons Kurucs), (wing Garrett) Temp(le), myself, (small forward) Theo (Pinson), (shooting guard Iman) Shump(ert). So whenever we do get our full roster back, we will be even better because those guys have experience and are able to jell. It just makes us a better team once when we get everybody back.”
Bobby Marks: Brooklyn now with a projected $135M in salary in 2020-21 after the Taurean Prince extension. That figure could increase to north of $145M when you factor in possibly 2 first-round picks and the team/non-guaranteed contracts of Theo Pinson, Garrett Temple and David Nwaba.
David Nwaba is spending time on the Central Coast this week just before he embarks on his fourth NBA season. The former Cal Poly star is getting ready to play for the Brooklyn Nets, his fourth team since breaking into the NBA in 2017. “Hopefully, that becomes home,” said Nwaba, who signed a free agent deal with with the Nets last month. “I just have to go out there and compete and show them that I belong and can win games. Every night I have to go out there and play hard and play my game.”
On Saturday, he held his first ever David Nwaba Elite Camp, which was held at St. Joseph High School in conjunction with One Dream Hoops. “I just wanted to give back to the community,” said Nwaba. “I went to school at Cal Poly, so being able to come back to the Central Coast and give back that felt like it was a great idea.”
The Brooklyn Nets have signed guard David Nwaba. Per team policy, terms of the deal were not released. Nwaba (6’4, 219) has appeared in 141 career games (37 starts) across three NBA seasons with Cleveland (2018-19), Chicago (2017-18) and the Los Angeles Lakers (2016-17), registering averages of 7.2 points, 3.9 rebounds and 1.2 assists in 21.5 minutes per game. The 26-year-old saw action in 51 games (14 starts) with the Cavaliers this past season, averaging 6.5 points, 3.2 rebounds and 1.1 assists in 19.3 minutes per contest. Nwaba also appeared in 40 games for the Lakers’ NBA G League affiliate during the 2016-17 campaign, posting averages of 14.1 points, 6.9 rebounds, 1.1 assists, 1.4 steals and 1.2 blocks in 28.7 minutes per game en route to NBA G League All-Defensive Team and All-Rookie Team honors.
Bobby Marks: The David Nwaba contract in Brooklyn is for: $1.7M and $1.8M (veteran minimum for both years). The second year has a July 7 trigger date. The guaranteed date gives Brooklyn flexibility compared to putting a 6/29 option date. The roster in BKN is now at 15 guaranteed contracts.
Nets adding David Nwaba
Shams Charania: Free agent guard David Nwaba has agreed to a two-year deal with the Brooklyn Nets, league sources tell @The Athletic @Stadium.
A 15th player under the Cavs’ control is David Nwaba, who could be a restricted free agent. Nwaba was limited to 51 games last season and averaged 6.5 points. A league source said the Cavs were likely to “do David a favor,” which probably means they intend to allow him to become an unrestricted free agent. The most likely scenario for Cleveland to fill those two roster spots is with players on minimum contracts. For a team like the Cavs, which is unlikely to make the playoffs, going into the luxury tax is unnecessary and unwise, which is why using one of their four trade exceptions (including the $3.5 million exception created in the Rodney Hood trade in February) or any significant portion of the $8.5 million midlevel exception seems unlikely.
Assuming they don’t trade Love, the Cavs’ core for the foreseeable future is him, Sexton, Cedi Osman (averaged 13 points in his first year as a starter; his improvement this year was another bright spot), Nance, possibly Ante Zizic (club option for 2020-21) and whomever they draft in June. Thompson and Clarkson, of course, are vets who will play huge roles, so long as they’re here. Another to keep your eye on is David Nwaba, who will be a restricted free agent this summer. He wants to be in Cleveland, and it would make sense for the Cavs to give him a multiyear contract if the price is right, which it could be. Nwaba played only 51 games because of injury.
Prior to playing in his final game of the regular season — and perhaps the last with the Cleveland Cavaliers — David Nwaba said he would like to Cleveland return next year. “I haven’t heard anything yet,” Nwaba told cleveland.com. “Hopefully everything works out where I’m back here. I don’t know what their plans are, but I want to come back.”
Cayleigh Griffin: Kevin Love and David Nwaba will be on a minute restriction tonight, per Coach Drew. #BeTheFight
Chris Fedor: #Cavs David Nwaba is not yet 100 percent, he told me. But he feels his ankle is at a point where he can play through without doing anymore damage. His goal is to go injury-free the rest of the season.
Chris Fedor: #Cavs David Nwaba returns from 18-game absence tonight.
Ira Winderman: Cavaliers upgrade Larry Nance Jr. (knee) to probable for Friday vs. Heat. But Love, Nwaba, Smith, Thompson listed as out by Cleveland. Only Dragic (knee, out) on Heat injury report.
Cayleigh Griffin: David Nwaba with a left ankle sprain. Same ankle he sprained against Toronto. Coach Drew says we’ll wait and see how he is. #BeTheFight
Chris Fedor: #Cavs will turn to Alec Burks to anchor the second unit tonight, as David Nwaba goes back into the starting lineup. They played their best three-game stretch with him as starter in late November.
Marla Ridenour: Larry Nance Jr. starting for #Cavs in place of David Nwaba (sore right knee)
David Nwaba, who has been at the center of the Cleveland Cavaliers’ two-game winning streak, will miss Monday night’s game against the Minnesota Timberwolves because of soreness in his right knee. Nwaba, a starter the last three games, will miss his fourth game of the season and first with an injury.
Rick Noland: JR will start at SF, with Cedi going to PF with Dekker out. Drew said some minutes will be available off bench for Nwaba. Doesn’t sound like Zizic is in the plans
Rick Noland: Love, Korver, Hill, Tristan out for Cavs to rest. Nwaba out with groin strain
One day after earning head coach Tyronn Lue’s praise, David Nwaba will be held out of the Cleveland Cavaliers’ second preseason game against the Boston Celtics. Nwaba, who Lue declared part of his rotation despite a glut of guards, is nursing a groin injury. He tweaked it “a little bit” in practice recently. The 25-year-old free agent addition will join George Hill, Kyle Korver, Kevin Love and Tristan Thompson on the sidelines Saturday night.
Chris Fedor: #Cavs Ty Lue says he sees David Nwaba as part of his rotation. I asked him how that’s possible when he has so many other guards. He said, “I will show you.” I said, “Can you tell me instead?” He said, “You’re smart so you will figure it out.” So there’s that…
Former Los Angeles teammate Larry Nance Jr. put in a good word for Nwaba. But it wasn’t necessary. The Cavs’ front office showed interest in Nwaba early in free agency and recruited him hard after the Bulls reversed course. After meeting with Nwaba in Las Vegas at the end of July, the Cavs got an agreement from him, edging out the Indiana Pacers, who also showed interest. “Indiana wanted me for two years, but Cleveland seemed like a better fit,” Nwaba said. “Young guys as well as veterans on this team so I thought it was a perfect fit and knew I was going to get my opportunity here.”
David Nwaba admits this was a stressful summer. After initially believing he had finally found his home in Chicago, he thinks things worked out even better, landing in a place that’s a “perfect fit” for him. “Thought I was going to stay there for years to come,” Nwaba said when asked about his feelings toward the Bulls. “But it’s a business. It all worked out, ended up still living the dream of playing in the NBA. Think this is a good opportunity here and just moved past it.”
Former Los Angeles teammate Larry Nance Jr. put in a good word for Nwaba. But it wasn’t necessary. The Cavs’ front office showed interest in Nwaba early in free agency and recruited him hard after the Bulls reversed course. After meeting with Nwaba in Las Vegas at the end of July, the Cavs got an agreement from him, edging out the Indiana Pacers, who also showed interest. “Indiana wanted me for two years, but Cleveland seemed like a better fit,” Nwaba said. “Young guys as well as veterans on this team so I thought it was a perfect fit and knew I was going to get my opportunity here.”
Cleveland was hoping to lock him in to a long-term deal — three or four years would’ve been nice from their perspective. Only Nwaba — after averaging 7.9 points, 4.7 rebounds and 1.5 assists in 23.5 minutes with the Bulls — wasn’t looking for that kind of commitment. “I thought I should prove myself before taking any offer long term,” Nwaba said. “I chose the one year and bet on myself.”
“Every so often a club will catch lightning in a bottle with a Jonathon Simmons of the world or a David Nwaba, but a lot of good local, high school, college talent that these guys deserve and want a shot,” Lindsey said. “Even the guys that didn’t play at higher levels, that they now have had their opportunity to play in a pro camp and be evaluated here by professionals here with the Stars.”
