LAS VEGAS — Day’Ron Sharpe might technically have had his free agent rights renounced by the Nets, however that’s simply paperwork.
The massive man is coming again to Brooklyn, and he’s enthusiastic about it.
“It feels good to be back in Brooklyn,” Sharpe stated through the Nets’ 102-96 summer season league loss to Washington on Sunday evening. “I feel good to play for Jordi [Fernández], to play for the Brooklyn Nets organization. I got drafted here, it’s always home, so it’s good to be back for the team, for the Brooklyn Nets.”
Sharpe and the Nets had agreed to a two-year, $12 million deal, as beforehand reported late final month.
The Nets had declined to present Sharpe a qualifying provide, briefly making him a restricted free agent.
However the heart was by no means a flight danger, saying he wished to stick with the crew that made him a first-round decide in 2019.
“I just feel that was the best option for me, and that’s where Brooklyn was at,” Sharpe stated. “I just decided what I decided.”
The Nets renouncing his free agent rights was extra about sequencing.
Sharpe and Ziaire Williams — who agreed to an equivalent deal — might be signed into cap area, or one could possibly be signed into the room exception.
However the Nets would wish to exhaust their cap area first in the event that they wish to maximize taking up wage dumps, the best way they did to garner two first-round picks this offseason.
Utilizing the exception and re-signing restricted free agent Cam Thomas would come later.
