Free agent guard Amir Hinton is signing in Finland with Kouvot Kouvola, agent Jerry Dianis of Team Entertainment Sports confirmed to Hoops Rumors.
Hinton has also been selected to play for the Syrian National Team, Dianis said. The 24-year-old signed an Exhibit 10 deal with the Knicks as an undrafted free agent in 2019, attending training camp with the team later that fall. He spent all of the 2019/20 season with the club’s G League affiliate.
Throughout his 36 games in the G League, Hinton averaged 7.6 points, 1.9 rebounds and 15.7 minutes per contest. The 6-foot-6 swingman played collegiately at Lock Haven and Shaw University.
Here are some other odds and ends from around the basketball world:
- The NBA is requiring that all team, arena and league personnel who interact with players and referees be vaccinated for the 2021/22 season, according to Shams Charania of The Athletic (Twitter link). As Charania notes in a separate tweet, this includes staff in coaching, performance/medical, equipment, player development, security, public relations, social media, scorer’s table and attendants. More specifically, this applies for staff that come within 15 feet of a player or referee, according to ESPN’s Brian Windhorst and Tim Bontemps. The league has set an October 1 deadline for personnel to be vaccinated, the duo adds.
- Sixteen-year NBA veteran Rasheed Wallace has joined the University of Memphis as an assistant coach for the men’s basketball team, the school announced in a press release. Wallace joins a coaching staff that includes Larry Brown and Cody Toppert as assistants, along with Penny Hardaway as head coach.
- Former Grizzlies guard Josh Selby has signed in Lithuania with Pieno Zvaigzdes, the team announced today (via Instagram). Selby holds 38 games of NBA experience and was the No. 49 pick in the 2011 draft. He has spent most of his professional career overseas.
Sheeeeeed
Not sure why the NBA doesn’t takes it one step further and require players to be vaccinated too.
If the point of ensuring everyone around NBA players avoids giving covid to the players, why not just make the players…not get covid themselves in the first place…
All of the fans for Raiders home games will be required to show proof of vaccination this season. Why can’t NBA teams do this too, as they should?
Vax ain’t stopping no one from getting the virus, so what is the point to force anyone to have them?
The Tigers have a pretty fair coaching staff just now.
Sheed, the referee liason coach.
Recruiting strategy: he will affirm that yes, they’re all out to get us. With recruits having restricted HS and so educated by rap lyrics, Sheed will be showing that toothy grimace for a purpose.
Not sure if my intent is serious or humorous. He does have great pics under ‘images’.
Wow, Josh Selby, now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time.
I still remember when he was a huge recruit for Kansas, and supposed to be one of the best young prospects in the country..