Hassan Whiteside Rumors
All NBA Players
Position: C
Born: 06/13/89
Height: 7-0 / 2.13
Weight:265 lbs. / 120.2 kg.
Salary: $24,434,262
Born: 06/13/89
Height: 7-0 / 2.13
Weight:265 lbs. / 120.2 kg.
Salary: $24,434,262
To Miami Heat center Hassan Whiteside, the perfection of his trip to Africa extended beyond his 5-for-5 shooting in Team World’s victory in the NBA Africa Game exhibition in Pretoria, South Africa. “Life changing, life changing,” he said, “from building houses with kids, from seeing kids playing basketball, from taking selfies with all the kids around the world. It’s a dream come true. I never thought that kids in Africa or anybody in Africa would know my name. It takes me back. It’s crazy.”
Seeing so many Heat and especially Whiteside jerseys during his visit made a particular impact. “It was so many. I was surprised by how many Whiteside’s jerseys I’ve seen,” he said on a video posted on the Heat website. “Heat Nation was in Africa, that’s crazy.”
We’ve been told by two NBA general managers that the Heat has made Tyler Johnson, Hassan Whiteside and Dion Waiters available in trade talks this summer.
Center Hassan Whiteside told reporters Wednesday that he met with Miami Heat president Pat Riley and coach Erik Spoelstra last month and he is in a better place with the team now. “We had a great talk,” Whiteside told reporters on a conference call to discuss Saturday’s NBA game in Africa, in which he plans to play. “I just think it’s trust on both sides. I think that’s the biggest thing … It was about a four-hour meeting. It was a lot about life. It was two hours basketball, two hours life. It was a good meeting.”
