DECEMBER 23: The Mavericks have officially signed Knight to a 10-day deal, the team announced today (via Twitter). Dallas has now added six players via hardship exceptions, as our tracker shows.
DECEMBER 22: Another NBA veteran is making a comeback, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, who reports (via Twitter) that the Mavericks plan to sign guard Brandon Knight to a 10-day contract via a hardship exception.
Knight, who hasn’t played in the NBA since the 2019/20 season, has 446 regular season appearances on his career résumé, having spent time with the Pistons, Bucks, Suns, Rockets, and Cavaliers from 2011-20. The 30-year-old has averaged 14.1 PPG over the course of his career, though he has been well below that mark since the ’15/16 season.
Knight signed a G League contract earlier this year in the hopes of earning a shot with an NBA team. He has put up 21.3 PPG, 5.5 APG, and 4.6 RPG in 11 games (38.0 MPG) for the Sioux Falls Skyforce, Miami’s NBAGL affiliate, making 3.2 three-pointers per game at a 35.7% rate.
As we noted earlier when word broke that the Mavs had reached a 10-day deal with Carlik Jones, the club’s number of reported hardship signings has now exceeded the number of players they have in the health and safety protocols, which suggests a couple more Dallas players could end up entering the protocols today.
Is there an infomercial out there for this yet recruiting former NBA players? Hopefully they are running it at every retirement home nationwide.
Can’t wait to see Allen Iverson, Allan Houston, Grandmama and Big Z playing in the L again by February 1st! Seriously, 100+ guys in H&S protocols and a rash of injuries is brutal. Might be time to shut it down for a couple of weeks and ask the players/staff to isolate as much as possible.
Money and greed are to important. Isn’t this obvious yet? No because everybody believes what they hear on tv. Greed
What the..
Signing Brandon Knight is truly a form of hardship
Shutting down would work if most of the transmissions are coming from basketball related activities. If not, no shutdown is needed but re-education on proper pandemic behavior would be called for. ESPN ran a story with NFL head doctor and most of the transmissions were coming from SYMPTOMATIC individuals. The NFL could not find or document a case where asymptomatic players were passing covid to their teammates. It begs the question: WTF is a symptomatic player doing around his teammates?