NEW YORK — The Nets waived Killian Hayes and Amari Bailey after Friday’s preseason finale towards the Toronto Raptors. They have been invited to coaching camp on Exhibit 10 transactions. Saturday was the final day to waive a participant on a non-guaranteed contract and never incur a wage cap charge.
Each guards are anticipated to play for the G League affiliate Lengthy Island Nets this season.
Hayes, who was chosen seventh total by the Detroit Pistons within the 2020 NBA Draft, didn’t seem in any video games for Brooklyn all through the preseason on account of hip soreness. Bailey, who was chosen forty first total by the Charlotte Hornets in 2023, made two appearances off the bench through the preseason and averaged 2.0 factors, 1.0 rebounds and three.0 assists per recreation.
He’ll proceed to nurse his damage with Lengthy Island. Nets head coach Jordi Fernandez was impressed with Hayes’ ethic when he was wholesome in coaching camp. He appears to consider the 23-year-old’s profession is value saving.
“Killian has really feel for the sport,” Fernandez stated. “He labored actually exhausting the entire time we had him right here. He is been actually good in camp. Sadly, a lot of these minor accidents occur. However it’s nothing severe, so he’ll be again quickly and I would wish to see him on the sphere.
“We’ll see the way it goes, however thus far I am pleased with him and all the things he is completed…I believe a few of you stated it was like his second draft and you may to say he is getting shut, I do not know what he was like earlier than, and I do not care, however he appears mature, he works day-after-day, he is very dedicated and he is aware of precisely what he has to do on this surroundings.
Brooklyn additionally transformed Tyrese Martin’s Exhibit 10 deal to a two-way contract. He fills the crew’s third and remaining two-way spot, becoming a member of wingers Jaylen Martin and Yongxi Cui. The 25-year-old performed in 16 video games for the Atlanta Hawks through the 2022-23 season and spent final season with the Iowa Wolves within the G League, the place he averaged 17.9 factors and eight.0 rebounds per recreation.
The Nets completed the preseason with a 1-3 report. Their 2024-25 squad is outlined. They open the common season Wednesday towards the Atlanta Hawks at State Farm Stadium.
“It was coaching camp as a result of we labored exhausting and we improved by 1% day-after-day,” Fernandez stated. “However it doesn’t cease there. Bettering would not cease there. We’re process-oriented, now we have a plan for now and for the longer term, and we have to perceive that now we have these three days to arrange. Sure, I used to be going to arrange to play towards Atlanta, for positive, however we’re working to enhance ourselves… And now it begins the actual NBA, which is ups and downs, a troublesome schedule, and we we’d like a variety of unity. We should keep related. So it is going to be a enjoyable problem, for positive.
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