Longtime NBA players Hassan Whiteside and Brandon Knight have signed with Puerto Rico’s Piratas de Quebradillas, La Guerra del BSN tweets. The tweet shows the two players standing near a plane holding Puerto Rican flags.
The Baloncesto Superior Nacional (BSN) is the top level professional league in Puerto Rico.
Whiteside, 33, played 65 regular season games for the Jazz last season, backing up Rudy Gobert. He’s averaged 12.6 points and 10.8 rebounds in his 511-game NBA career. He also played for Sacramento, Miami and Portland.
Whiteside became a free agent after last season but didn’t generate much buzz on the open market. Traditional veteran centers have found it increasingly difficult to find suitors due to the way the game is currently played.
Knight, 31, has averaged 14.0 points and 3.9 assists in his 451-game NBA career. He had a five-game stint with the Mavericks last season on a pair of 10-day contracts. He has also played for Detroit, Milwaukee, Phoenix, Houston and Cleveland.
The NBA and silver doesn’t like veterans. We need exciting product. All offense and no defense. Everyone traveling every play. Garbage today
Thank you Brandon for giving effort others are afraid to try. Sorry about your buzzer beating missed shot. Thank you Whiteside for being a good old school center and playing defense. The NBA wants 20 years olds running around throwing up 3s and playing no defense
Am I the only one who thinks Kyrie Irving single handedly ruined Brandon Knight’s career? Rocked him at the rising star game and he never recovered. Poor guy
What about the DeAndre Jordan dunk or the game winning missed layup. Knight didn’t care about how he looked. Kyrie didn’t kill him it was his injury but that cross over was deadly
Hassan I know you are better than 75% of the 6’5 centers out there today. It’s not your fault the league has no talented pf or centers anymore. You pay the price. If the league is all offense, where is j okafor. NBA doesn’t want draft Busts, veterans, centers and more. Fire silver. Play in crap and drafting out of the YMCA
I never saw Whiteside as some defensive beast. He collects rebounds, but doesn’t actually increase the number his teams get.
Ultimately, the head case reputations of these two combine with injury potential to close the window of opportunity.