Former Nets shooting guard Isaiah Whitehead is reportedly joining Polish club Slask Wroclaw, according to Karol Wasiek of Z Krainy NBA (hat tip to Dario Skerletic of Sportando).
The 6’4″ swingman spent the 2023/24 season plying his trade for Israeli club Ironi Ness Ziona B.C., notching averages of 14 points, 4.6 assists per game, and four rebounds a night.
Whitehead was selected with the No. 42 overall pick by the Nets out of Seton Hall in 2016. Across two seasons with Brooklyn, the 29-year-old averaged 7.2 points on a .411/.305/.788 slash line, along with 2.4 boards and 2.4 dimes. He has been playing internationally since 2018.
There’s more from around the NBA world:
- In a new piece, The Athletic’s Zach Harper and Shams Charania take stock of a wide-open Western Conference, projecting which clubs have a realistic shot at winning it all in 2024/25. The duo also lays out a Hall of Fame case for Celtics guard Jrue Holiday. The 6’4″ vet has now won two NBA and Olympic titles as a key contributor, has racked up a pair of All-Star accolades and has earned six All-Defensive Team honors.
- Nets point guard Dennis Schröder recently took umbrage with Suns All-Star power forward Kevin Durant’s critical post-Olympic tweet, seen as a shot at an initial Schröder comment, writes Lucas Kaplan of NetsDaily. Schröder, who recently starred in the Paris Olympics for Team Germany, praised European basketball as “straight IQ basketball,” while he called the U.S. brand of the game as “entertainment.” After winning a gold medal for Team USA, Durant took a shot at the comments, posting, “ENTERTAINMENT & IQ” to his personal Twitter account. “To be that type of a star and say something to a person like me, who [didn’t] even mean it to be negative, just what I see from both sides. I didn’t appreciate it — not even appreciate it, I didn’t care,” Schröder said.