Brooklyn Nets Rumors
Get a free trial Nets Daily: The Brooklyn Nets have requested waivers on guard Tyson Etienne. As noted yesterday, this is a way to restock Long Island Nets roster
The Nets have signed free agent guard Tyson Etienne, per team. Etienne, a 6’2” guard from Wichita State, went undrafted in 2022. He averaged 10.5 points and 3.6 assists on 44/36/78 shooting splits in 37 games for Hawks’ G-League affiliate last season.
Mikal Bridges will become eligible for a contract extension worth $72.5 million over two seasons with the New York Knicks on October 1st. Bridges can alternatively sign a three-year, $112.9 million deal next offseason. The Knicks acquired Bridges in June from the Brooklyn Nets in exchange for five first round picks and a pick swap. Bridges has until the start of the season to sign the two-year, $72.5 million extension.
Nets Daily: Aaron Harris, long time Nets PR rep, promoted to Vice President for Public Relations. linkedin.com/posts/bse-glob…
Million Dollar Question: Could New York ever be a Nets town? “After they win a championship,” Marbury tells Scoop B Radio. “They have to win a championship before the Knicks. This is all simple math. There’s no play and be like, Oh we win about 60 games but we lost and we didn’t win the championship and then all of the sudden you’re better than the Knicks? Nah. It doesn’t work like that.”
Nets Daily: Barclays Center celebrity row Sunday: NBA’s Steph Curry, Klay Thompson, Devin Booker, Thompson twins, Derrick Lively II; Hall of Famer Dawn Staley, UConn’s Azzi Fudd & Paige Bueckers, gymnast Jordan Chiles, boxer Claressa Shields, TV host Tamron Hall and owners Joe & Clara Tsai!
Former Nets draftee Ilkan Karaman dies at age 34 in car accident
Fenerbahce Beko: We have learned with deep sadness of the passing away of our national athlete İlkan Karaman, who played for us between 2012 and 2014. May God have mercy on İlkan Karaman; we offer our deepest condolences and patience to his family, loved ones and the basketball community.
Ilkan Karaman has died at the age of 34: a former player who also played in the EuroLeague with the jersey of Fenerbahce, a club where he played from 2012 to 2014. During his career, he was also selected by the Brooklyn Nets in the NBA with the No. 57 pick in the 2012 draft, but never played an official game overseas. Karaman, according to Basketfaul, was waiting on a sidewalk for a friend who was busy getting gas when a vehicle, driven by a man who was probably drunk, lost control and ran over the former player.
Playing at the power forward position , Karaman was a regular in Turkey’s youth teams and even played for the senior team in the qualifying matches for Eurobasket 2013 , averaging 10.5 points and 5.8 rebounds in 10 games played. Ilkan Karaman was even drafted 57th overall by the Brooklyn Nets in 2012 , although he would never play a single game in the NBA.
