MARCH 28: Timme’s new contract is official, the Nets announced (via Twitter).
MARCH 27: The Nets are signing free agent forward Drew Timme to a two-year contract, reports Michael Scotto of HoopsHype (Twitter link). The second year will be a team option.
Timme went undrafted in 2023 after a highly decorated collegiate career at Gonzaga. He has spent the past two seasons in the NBA G League.
A 6’10” power forward, Timme signed an Exhibit 10 deal with the Bucks in August 2023 and was waived before the 2023/24 season began. He spent his rookie campaign with Milwaukee’s NBAGL affiliate, the Wisconsin Herd.
Timme didn’t make the same impact in his first professional season as he did during his time with the Zags, but he found another NBA opportunity last fall, inking a training camp deal with Sacramento. He opened ’24/25 with the Stockton Kings during the Tip-Off Tournament, averaging 11.9 points, 6.2 rebounds and 2.6 assists while shooting 52.3% from the field in 14 appearances, though he only played 19.0 minutes per contest.
Timme switched teams for the G League’s regular season this winter, landing with Nets’ affiliate in Long Island. As Scotto notes, Timme was recently named NBA G League Player of the Week after averaging 35.7 points and 12.7 rebounds over a three-game span, including a career-best 50-point performance.
The 24-year-old has put up big numbers for Long Island, averaging 23.9 points, 10.2 rebounds and 4.1 assists on .574/.384/.731 shooting in 29 regular season games (35.6 minutes per contest). Now he’ll be getting his first standard NBA contract with the Nets.
As our tracker shows, the Nets currently only have 14 players on their standard roster, so no corresponding move will be necessary to sign Timme.
Timme!!!
Always liked him. Take advantage
An excellent college basketball player, very effective and tremendous ability, But The pros are a different story.
You can see these guys coming, they don’t quite have the physical gifts to succeed at the next level.
But if he can learn to be crafty, he may be able to score a little bit, but it will be tough to overlook his Inability to defend in the post.
Sometimes guys like that, you put them out on the wing, but Drew will be hung out to dry on the perimeter as well.
Not a knock on him because he’s getting paid to play basketball on a professional level and the G league or Europe or wherever Will help him carve out a very nice career. Many can only wish for such a life.
“Not to knock on him” after you spent your whole post knocking on him lol
Didn’t try to beat him up. Just giving a breakdown of his game. Plus, it’s pretty great that he has a pro basketball career of probably 10 more years ahead of him. Sounds like a great life to me?
Timme was a great college player, with the full package of post skills that were once highly valued at all levels of the sport. But the league has changed and it no longer values many of its once premium skills, and post play is at the top of that list.
Right now, other than a high basketball IQ, Timme doesn’t have any of the skills that the NBA currently values. He’s an undersized big, with no perimeter shot or ability to put the ball on the floor, and he lacks the atheticism and/or length to be either a good perimeter defender or any kind of post presence and/or rim protector. Also, being a poor FT shooter isn’t a great complement to his post game.
I’d love to see him make it, as I’ve always enjoyed watching skilled post players operate. It’s just hard to see a real rotational role, but maybe he can find a niche.
Just wait, the pendulum is swinging back and skilled bigs are making their presence felt again.
Timme Time in Brooklyn!
Long overdue. This guy has been making the G League look like a JV league all season long.
I see. Well he did the same thing in college. Great numbers great stats.
Let me ask you, where, how or in what category do you see him excelling also in the pros?
Well it’s about Timme!!
He totally looks like he stepped out of the movie Semi-Pro…
And aside from the Chinese gimmick they had for 5 minutes, Marks nearly went an entire season without a white guy on the roster.
Timmeeeeeeee -Timmy from Southpark