Former Piston Spencer Dinwiddie back in the NBA with the Nets
Former Piston Spencer Dinwiddie’s day in the NBA D-League are no more as the Brooklyn Nets signed him away from the Windy City Bulls.
It was just a matter of time until an NBA team brought former Detroit Pistons‘ point guard Spencer Dinwiddie back to the big leagues, and the Brooklyn Nets were the team to do it.
As far as perfect situations go, Dinwiddie might have found himself the best one possible. Thanks to Jeremy Lin‘s hamstring injury, the Nets have been playing Yogi Ferrell and Isaiah Whitehead at point guard. They waived Ferrell to make roster space for Dinwiddie.
Nets signed D-League guard Spencer Dinwiddie to a partially guaranteed three-year deal, league sources tell @TheVertical.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojVerticalNBA) December 8, 2016
Excited to have this opportunity…thank you @BrooklynNets
— Spencer Dinwiddie (@SDinwiddie_25) December 8, 2016
This lack of depth or talent (all respect to Whitehead, he’s 21 years old and averaging 6 points per game) almost certainly boosts Dinwiddie into the starting point guard role for the Nets until Lin returns to the lineup.
After the Detroit Pistons traded him to the Chicago Bulls this June and he was subsequently waived by the Bulls to clear cap space for Dwyane Wade, it’s been a whirlwind 2016 for Dinwiddie. When he was waived, he was almost immediately extended an invite to play for their summer league team and quickly earned a non-guaranteed contract.
He was again waived after the Bulls traded for Michael Carter-Williams and the team decided to roll with Jerian Grant and Isaiah Canaan at the reserve point guard spots.
Dinwiddie was then assigned to the Bulls’ NBA D-League affiliate, the Windy City Bulls, where he put up some legitimate numbers. He averaged 19.4 points, 8.1 assists and 3.7 rebounds per game and had shooting splits of .479/.414/.803 while playing 37 minutes per game.
Dinwiddie has come a long way since scraping together third-string point guard minutes behind Steve Blake in Detroit. The NBA world is going to get to see him on a much larger stage now in Brooklyn.
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