Nets signal Darius Bazley – NBA Weblog – NBA Basketball Weblog
The Brooklyn Nets have signed free agent ahead Darius Bazley.
Bazley (6’9″, 216) appeared in 43 video games (one begin) in 2022-23 cut up between the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder (36 video games) and Phoenix Suns (seven video games), averaging 5.2 factors on a career-high 45.4 p.c capturing from the sector and a career-high 37.7 p.c capturing from 3-point vary and three.2 rebounds in 14.3 minutes per recreation.
Throughout 4 NBA seasons with the Thunder (2019-23) and Suns (2023), the 23-year-old Bazley has performed in 228 profession video games (118 begins) and holds averages of 9.1 factors, 5.3 rebounds and 1.2 assists in 23.6 minutes per recreation whereas capturing 41.1 p.c from the ground, 31.0 p.c from distance and 67.3 p.c from the free-throw line.
He additionally competed in seven playoff video games as a reserve in the course of the 2020 postseason for Oklahoma Metropolis and posted averages of 6.6 factors and 6.7 rebounds in 18.0 minutes per recreation whereas capturing 41.9 p.c from the sector, 50.0 p.c from 3-point vary and 90.0 p.c from the free-throw line.
The Cincinnati native was chosen with the twenty third total choose within the first spherical of the 2019 NBA Draft by the Utah Jazz earlier than his draft rights have been traded to the Memphis Grizzlies after which to the Thunder.
Bazley earned a variety within the 2018 McDonald’s All-American recreation and was five-star recruit out of Princeton Excessive College in Ohio.
After graduating, Bazley spent one 12 months taking part in an internship with New Stability whereas coaching for the NBA Draft.