Hawks waive Nene
Bobby Marks: Atlanta makes it official and has waived Nene. They will incur a $2.6M cap hit this season. His $2.7M salary for 2020/21 would have been guaranteed if he was not waived by Feb. 15.
NBA Rumor: Nene Free Agency
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Jonathan Feigen: Rockets announce the signing of veteran center Nene.
Salman Ali: Daryl Morey makings the Nene signing official on Instagram. pic.twitter.com/ycnGP89fhC
Mark Berman: Nene (@Nenê) confirms he is re-signing with the #Rockets. First reported by @Kelly Iko
Kelly Iko: Breaking: Free-agent big man Nene plans to resign with the Houston Rockets.
Nenê: Blessed to be a Rocket!! Now official!! 🚀🚀Thank you Mr Alexander, @Daryl Morey and the entire Rockets organization!! pic.twitter.com/eTM4Vo3Brx
Daryl Morey: Welcome back @NeneHilario42 !
Mark Berman: ICYMI @Nenê on returning to #Rockets:”I love this city.I love the organization.I was scared to lose it.Everything worked out great” pic.twitter.com/jFiIyzmWce
Nenê: H-Town Let’s do this!!!! 🚀🚀🚀🚀 🏆🏆🏆
Adrian Wojnarowski: Nene has agreed to new deal with Houston, league sources tell ESPN.
Adrian Wojnarowski: Nene agrees to a 3-year, $11M deal, per source. twitter.com/wojespn/status…
David Aldridge: Nene is moving on to talks to other teams after deal with Rockets collapsed this am. Proposed 4/$15M deal would have run into Under 38 rule.
Shams Charania: Sources: Nene, Rockets unable to finalize an agreement on his contract. He has reentered free agency.
Alex Kennedy: Wow, Nene thought this was done. He confirmed the report to me last night and seemed excited. Wonder what happened. twitter.com/shamscharania/…
Marc J. Spears: The Rockets are optimistic they will work a deal out with Nene, a source said. twitter.com/marcjspearsesp…
Marc J. Spears: At the moment, free agent center Nene is not interested in re-signing to a three-year, $10 million deal with the Rockets. Market back open. twitter.com/marcjspearsesp…
Bobby Marks: The structure of the Nene contract with Houston is three-years, $10.9m. Marc J. Spears: Free agent Nene is very disappointed about his $4 million drop in expected contract & is “back at square one in free agency,” a source said.
The structure of the Nene contract with Houston is three-years, $10.9m. Houston is not permitted to give Nene a four-year contract because of the Over 38 rule.
Nenê: First I wanna Thank The Lord for theblessing and for taking care of me … I want to thank my family , friends ,the red nation Rockets by love , respect and trust my work !!!! I will always represent them as best as I can … Thank you very much and. Let’s continuing the work then we begin last year 😉😉😉🙏🏾🇧🇷🏀… let’s go Rockets to the 🏆in Jesus name 👍🏾🙏🏾
Jonathan Feigen: Rockets reach an agreement with Nene on a four year, $15 million contract, source said.
Tim MacMahon: Worth noting that Nene, a free agent who has made it clear he enjoyed his season in Houston, is mentioned as part of Rockets’ core. twitter.com/nbatv/status/8…
Nene to Houston
Adrian Wojnarowski: Free agent center Nene has agreed to a deal with Houston, sources tell @The Vertical.
Adrian Wojnarowski: Sources: Nene deal: 1-year, $2.9M
Nene is an unrestricted free agent, but the oft-injured 7-foot Brazilian from the Wizards isn’t retiring, a person with knowledge of the situation told CSNmidatlantic.com, and has a solid relationship with coach Scott Brooks. Nene, 33, posted evidence of his training as he gets ready in his native Brazil for the 2016 Rio Olympics via social media: “Either you getting better or you getting worst, period. Working hard every day & getting ready for the 2016 Olympics!!”
January 28, 2021 | 9:27 am EST Update
“I talked to him about” the reports, Kerr said after the game. “It’s unfortunate. A team (New Orleans) called us and asked us, didn’t even make us an offer, just asked about Kelly. Next thing we know, it’s online. This is sort of modern NBA, modern life.
“I tell the players all the time and I told Kelly today, this is where you really earn your money. The basketball part is the easy part. Packing up your family and leaving, getting injured, getting booed, or reading your name in trade rumors, those thing are not easy. So I was really proud of Kelly. He handled it really well. “We texted this afternoon, and I told him just now how proud I was of him, because it’s not easy to play through that stuff, and he came in and had one of his best games.”
Richaun Holmes: 'I absolutely love playing in Sacramento'
That isn’t the case with Richaun Holmes. Former general manager Vlade Divac found a diamond in the rough during the summer of 2019 and the Kings’ starting center would love nothing more than to stick around when his two-year contract expires this summer. “Absolutely,” Holmes said on a recent taping of Kings Central on NBC Sports California. “I absolutely love playing in Sacramento. Love the fans in Sacramento. Love stepping out in that arena with Sacramento across my jersey. So I would love to play here and hopefully everything works out, but Sacramento is a great place to play. They’ve embraced me with open arms and it’s somewhere I can definitely see myself playing.”
Justin Kubatko: Bradley Beal made NBA history last night, some good, some bad: ⬆️ 39th player to reach 25 40-point games. ⬆️ 5th player to open a season with 13 straight 25-point games. ⬇️ 1st player to lose 10 straight 40-point games. ⬇️ Worst W% among players with 10 40-point games (.240). pic.twitter.com/qBaZI0GJai
Shaquille O’Neal thinks the usual Super Bowl pre-game coverage is super lame — so he’s created his own event with a ton of his famous friends … and he’s calling it, “The Shaq Bowl.” Superstars like Tim Tebow, Ezekiel Elliott, Diplo, The Miz, Anthony Anderson, Nelly, Offset and more are all booked to compete in various crazy events at a custom-built Shaq Bowl stadium in Tampa on Feb. 7.
