Omari Sanfoka II: Dwane Casey on Saddiq: “I see him as a Luol Deng-type, that’s who Derrick told me he reminded me of.” Rose said the same comparison to the media last week.
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Luol Deng
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Born: 04/16/85
Height: 6-8 / 2.03
Weight:220 lbs. / 99.8 kg.
Salary: $5,000,000
Born: 04/16/85
Height: 6-8 / 2.03
Weight:220 lbs. / 99.8 kg.
Salary: $5,000,000
Nicolas Batum: (All in their prime) TP 4$, Navarro 1$, Deng 1$, Pau 4$,Hakeem 5$ @HoopsHype pic.twitter.com/gIZicIn0xG
Rod Beard: #Pistons Derrick Rose says Sekou Doumbouya “reminds me of Luol Deng, but more athletic.”
Does the Lakers’ Dream of Giannis Die? Probably. The Lakers chasing cap room in 2021 was always specious. The team petitioned the league to get Luol Deng’s dead $10 million off its books, but to no avail. The Lakers opted not to stretch the waived contracts of Quinn Cook and Jordan Bell, saving an extra $526,687 of potential cap space next summer.
Luol Deng wants to build up basketball in his native South Sudan and sometimes that means coaching the national team himself. The two-time NBA All-Star, who became president of the South Sudan basketball federation after retiring as a player last year, stepped in when the team was a late addition to the Afrobasket qualifying tournament.
Deng, born in what is now South Sudan, said after Thursday’s 76-56 loss to Nigeria that coaching is a temporary gig. “I’m fine with being coach for now, but in the future I don’t think I’ll be the coach,” Deng said after the game against Nigeria. “This is just something that I wanted to do for our country and our players.”
Deng, who played 15 seasons in the NBA, had a familiar face on the opposing bench. Mike Brown coaches the Nigerian team, and used to coach Deng when they were with the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2014. “I didn’t know he was going to coach the team,” Brown said “I used to coach Luol, now I’m coaching against him.” Brown credited Deng’s squad, which is inexperienced, for their grit.
