Here is already the end of an adventure … of a few weeks. Arrived from Portland after a threesome with Boston and therefore Memphis, Mario Hezonja today sees himself thrown like an old pair of socks before the start of the season. 22 days is the time that Mario will have stayed in Tennessee: not a one-night stand to act as a bargaining chip, but not a story that will have smacked of crazy confidence either. Craziest thing about it? Maybe the sniper Croatian and back on the market and, above all, that it still seems to be popular.
We all have something in us from Tennessee, and for Mario Henzonja it will be 22 days. Arrived at the end of November in Memphis after a deal involving Enes Kanter in particular, we could clearly see the Croatian playing the roles of player on wings not so thick as that on the side of the Grizzlies. But that child ! Obviously not charmed by a player whose 4.8 points, 3.5 rebounds and less than a single assist per game in the 16 minutes generously donated by Terry Stotts weren’t even a decoy, the Grizzlies finally cut the winger by 2m03 and 100 kilos. But despite his presence in the not closed enough circle of 30% 3-point players, Super Mario still seems, according to Shams Charania, to have the odds ten days before the NBA resumption.
The Memphis Grizzlies are waiving forward Mario Hezonja, sources tell @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium. Multiple teams are expected to express interest after training camp ends.
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) December 11, 2020
Former number 5 in Draft, Mario could thus play the plumbers of service in more than one team in the need… Not the best valve, but not the best player either so we apologize. After activating its player option at 1.8 million per year and then being traded and therefore cut, Hezonja will now try to bounce back for a pittance and on the side of the teams by still full. We would like to tell you more, but it is already a lot of honors made that all these words about a player so transparent last season, so transparent … since his arrival in the NBA. So while waiting for the Croatian’s next destination, we can already tell you that his departure did not prevent the Blazers from moving forward with a pre-season victory against the Kings, not that we doubted it but it was necessary specify it.
Memphis wanted to see, Memphis saw, and so Mario Hezonja’s level in 2020 was no legend. Here is a nicely burned contract and the Grizzlies season shouldn’t really be affected. For his part, Hezonja should quickly find a team, especially if Mario brushes it in the direction of the grain … and it was time for this paper to end.
Source Texte : The Athletic
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