MARCH 19, 10:25am: The deal is official, according to a tweet from the team.
MARCH 18, 1:01pm: The Hornets and Briante Weber agreed on a two-year deal, Shams Charania of The Vertical tweeted Friday. That puts the undrafted 24-year-old in position to back up Kemba Walker for the remainder of the 2016/17 campaign.
Though the exact terms of the deal haven’t been announced, even if the second year of the contract isn’t guaranteed Weber appears in line to get more than enough of an opportunity to prove his worth over course of the season’s final month.
Weber has done relatively little across stops with the Warriors and Hornets this season but has only played more than a handful of minutes twice all year. Now that the struggling Hornets have started to come to terms with the fact that their playoff hopes are fading, that could change.
Per Jerry Stephens of Fan Sided’s Swarm and Sting blog, head coach Steve Clifford is open to slotting Weber ahead of Brian Roberts and the injured Ramon Sessions on the depth chart providing a slightly larger sample size for the guard to prove that there is legitimate value behind his impressive D-League statistics.
Weber averaged 16.5 points, 7.3 rebounds and 7.5 assists per game in 31 contests for the Sioux Falls Skyforce this season.
Really good move by Charlotte. Sessions and Roberts have been a huge disappointment after replacing Jeremy Lin after he left for Brooklyn as a free agent, and Weber will get a chance to put play and out perform to aging and underperforming vets
I’ve been watching him weber when he was with golden state. I want my Sacramento Kings to get him but Management sucks. I guess we have no scouts to report talented players to GM. Weber plays with heart.. Very smart of Charlotte to sign him..