SEPTEMBER 12, 2:43pm: The deal is official, the team announced on its website.
SEPTEMBER 11, 6:31pm: The Nets and center Tyler Zeller are finalizing a two-year contract, Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN.com tweets. Zeller will join the Nets, a league source informs NetsDaily.com, but the second-year is not guaranteed (Twitter link).
Brooklyn’s interest in Zeller doesn’t come as a total surprise, since Michael Scotto of Basketball Insiders recently reported that the Nets had worked him out.
Zeller didn’t draw much interest on the free agent market after he was waived by the Celtics in July in order to free up cap space. The 27-year-old center had a non-guaranteed $8MM salary for 2017/18 that needed to be cleared from Boston’s books in order to sign prized free agent forward Gordon Hayward.
Brooklyn was seeking frontcourt depth after a variety of deals left it a little thin at those spots. The Nets dealt Brook Lopez, Andrew Nicholson, and Justin Hamilton, while adding Timofey Mozgov in a trade and drafting Jarrett Allen in the first round. He’ll compete with Mozgov and Allen for minutes.
Zeller, the 17th overall pick in the 2012 draft, spent the last three seasons in Boston, but played a career-low 10.3 minutes per game in 2016/17. In 340 career games with the Cavs and Celtics, the UNC product has averaged 7.0 PPG and 4.4 RPG.
Damn celtics are losing all their good players… they should have kept that nets pick so at least they can rebuild
I’m assuming this is just a weak attempt at satire?
Zeller did nothing for us screw off spammer
False. It may surprise you, but in the 2014-2015 season, he led the team in Win Shares. He completely fell out of the rotation last year, but for the first year or two in Boston, he was actually fairly solid.
I love when people make offhand comments and get hit with some hard facts lol
I’d rather have Gordon Hayward and Kyrie Irving than Tyler Zeller!
Mozgov and Zeller that’ll strike fear into opponents
And who, pray-tell, is better and currently available ???
This dude looks like Johnny Manziel and Boban Marjanovic combined
Weird no mention of salary, not even to say salary not known.
Don’t believe it was reported, but at this time of year, it’s probably safe to assume minimum salary unless otherwise noted.