JULY 15: The Nets have confirmed that they’ve waived Sumner (Twitter link).
“When they counted me out, Brooklyn gave me a shot to prove myself again,” Sumner said in a tweet of his own. “For that it’s always love. Had a ball hooping again! Story continues.”
JULY 14: The Nets are expected to waive guard Edmond Sumner before his non-guaranteed deal becomes fully guaranteed tomorrow, sources tell Michael Scotto of HoopsHype (Twitter link).
As our tracker shows, Sumner would have locked in his $2,239,943 salary for 2023/24 had he remained with the Nets beyond July 15.
Sumner recently sent out a tweet talking about overcoming adversity, which was a hint this news was coming. However, he played pretty well last season for Brooklyn after missing all of 2021/22 following a torn Achilles tendon. The 27-year-old averaged 7.1 PPG, 1.5 RPG and 1.3 APG on .461/.356/.917 shooting in 53 games (13.9 MPG) with the Nets.
An athletic combo guard, Sumner showed he still had his quickness in ’22/23 following the major injury, and he’s expected to draw interest on the open market, according to Scotto.
Assuming he clears waivers without being claimed, Sumner will become an unrestricted free agent. Any team interested in placing a claim could do so using the minimum salary exception, but would have to be willing to fully guarantee his 2023/24 salary.
Sumner is a former second-round pick, selected 52nd overall in 2017. He spent his first four seasons with the Pacers, first on a two-way deal before he was promoted to a standard contract. He played his college ball at Xavier.
Pacersss sign him!
I was hoping the Nets would keep him but it’s understandable if his role is redundant with Lonnie Walker IV around.
raptors
The dude can shoot the ball and since everyone is looking for guys with decent shooting percentages, he should have a bunch of teams looking at him as a deep depth guy. I too would like to see the Raptors bring him in for a look.
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If someone waives him, do they need cap space or an exception?
His salary seems higher than the minimum of someone with 6 years experience I just looked up.
He signed a two-year, minimum-salary contract in July 2022, so he’d be eligible to be claimed by any team using the minimum salary exception.
A claiming team would have to fully guarantee his 2023/24 salary.
Will add this to the story.
The Bulls could use him. He is a Malone type player as well. Portland has a need as well.
While I respect Sean Marks, I don’t really like this move. Do I think Sumner will ever be an all star? No I don’t. Do I think he could be Chris Chiozza type player or maybe even a servicable back up PG? Yes I do. Sumner gave all he had on the court. I’m surprised he never got more playing time. His only problem was that he would make stupid mistakes in close games. Like for example, the nets were up b like 6 and with 20 seconds left he fouled someone taking a 3 pointer on the opposing team. Can’t be doing stuff like that
I’ve been a fan of this guy from day 1. Phoenix, Denver, Dallas, New Orleans, Houston could all make some kind of sense
Fort Sumner has fallen…I repeat