Ryan Wolstat: Both ex-Raptors get the special road veteran’s seating in the Nets locker room. Ed Davis and DeMarre Carroll also both seemed intrigued at the though of playing Toronto in the first round of the playoffs.
Ed Davis Rumors
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Position: F
Born: 06/05/89
Height: 6-10 / 2.08
Weight:214 lbs. / 97.5 kg.
Salary: $4,449,000
Born: 06/05/89
Height: 6-10 / 2.08
Weight:214 lbs. / 97.5 kg.
Salary: $4,449,000
Brian Lewis: Ed Davis, on a one-year deal, wants to be back w/ the #Nets next season: “Honestly, I think about free agency; but I try to live in the moment…Obviously I want to be back. I said that so hopefully it works out in the summer.”
“Everybody loves Ed,” Lillard said. “I just think just having him around, it was different. I think we expected him to be around forever. We were like, there ain’t no way, there’s no way Ed’s going to ever be nowhere else. I still think about it.”
Turner and Blazers forward Al-Farouq Aminu talk with Davis daily on a group text. Lillard is in touch with the big man once or twice a week and hasn’t given up on bringing him back to Portland. Ask around, from Chapel Hill to Brooklyn, from coaches to PR people, and Lillard’s assertion is proven correct: Everybody does love Ed. “I’m in love,” Nets coach Kenny Atkinson confirmed.
Lillard and Davis became close, however, for non-basketball reasons. There was “no B.S. to him,” Lillard said, describing him as humble, regular and real. “If it was up to me, me and Ed would be teammates for my entire career,” Lillard said.
