There were also multiple text messages. But they were not ordinary text messages. When Lillard texted Whiteside, the messages were measured not in lines but in multiple screens. “I’m talking about … like, Dame wrote books,” Whiteside said. There was stuff about basketball. More stuff about communicating. And an outline of how things work in Portland. But above all, it was one big open-armed welcome. “And I was like, man, I’m here. This is all right,” Whiteside said. “This is what I’ve been waiting for.”
Hassan Whiteside Rumors
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Position: C
Born: 06/13/89
Height: 7-0 / 2.13
Weight:265 lbs. / 120.2 kg.
Salary: $27,093,018
Born: 06/13/89
Height: 7-0 / 2.13
Weight:265 lbs. / 120.2 kg.
Salary: $27,093,018
Eric Pincus: The Clippers send $110,00 (the min requirement) to the Heat in the Jimmy Butler/Whiteside/etc. deal – LAC got Harkless and a Miami protected 1st (lottery protected through 2025, unprotected 2026) and the rights to Mathias Lessort (2017-50th) via Philly – that’s a “wow” trade
Hassan Whiteside has only been a member of the Portland Trail Blazers for a few days, but the stand out center is already giving back to his new community. In a series of videos shared on Instagram, Whiteside can be seen giving out doughnuts to people on the streets and shouting “Go Portland, Go Blazers! We got shooters!”
Andy Slater: Hassan Whiteside extremely happy with trade news. “We got shooters… We got shooters. We got shooters. Let’s go!” (via @youngwhiteside Instagram)
A social-media video he posted featured him yelling about shooters, a reference to Portland’s perimeter game that features guards Damian Lillard and C.J. McCollum. A source close to Whiteside said he is looking forward to the opportunity of a new beginning. “It happened,” the source said. “I mean, it was just one of those things. It’s a business. He had to accept what was thrown at him. He liked Miami and what Miami did for him.”
The Miami Heat completed a four-team trade that allows them to sign All-Star guard Jimmy Butler to a four-year, $142 million contract, league sources told ESPN on Monday. The Heat are sending center Hassan Whiteside to the Portland Trail Blazers, guard Josh Richardson to the Philadelphia 76ers and a protected 2023 first-round pick to the Los Angeles Clippers to secure the salary cap flexibility to complete the sign-and-trade deal with the 76ers, league sources tell ESPN.
