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Nuggets To Waive Kostas Papanikilaou

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by ghettocheeze, Aug 1, 2015.

  1. Ñandu

    Ñandu New Member

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    K Pap will find your place in the league. He have fundamentals.
     
  2. Juxtaposed Jolt

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    inb4 the Spurs get him.
     
  3. dmoneybangbang

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    Would love to see him on the Celtics under Stevens.
     
  4. Snow Villiers

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    Kostas back in Denver via WOJ
     
  5. OpenLayup-Why3?

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    <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Denver is waiving guard Erick Green, clearing way to re-sign forward Kostas Papanikolaou, league sources tell Yahoo.</p>&mdash; Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) <a href="https://twitter.com/WojYahooNBA/status/662300022051053572">November 5, 2015</a></blockquote>
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    I Don't Get It. They waived him like twice. How can they resign him?
     
  6. YaoMing#1

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    That's good I thought he had NBA level talent, Should def be in the league.
     
  7. malakas

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    Good for him. I thought he and his agent were being idiots by refusing to sign until now with some very good european teams and instead he stayed out and kept practising until now-which is pretty late. We will see if he manages to stick around this time, but he took a big risk by waiting all this time.
     
  8. Fawkward

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    Can someone explain how they can re-sign him?
     
  9. cyberx

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    He likely got signed to a min deal... if not a minimum deal, it was a deal that was less than what he was going to get paid.

    Happy for him to get a chance!
     
  10. malakas

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    I saw a report that said he got an unguaranteed until January and a team option for next year. He was aiming for full guaranteed. Good luck to him.
     
  11. cyberx

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    He tried to get on in Europe but many teams had their rosters set...
     
  12. malakas

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    really? The reports in the greek media said he didn't want to sign with Efes and a russian team. (I know Oly wasn't really interested even if their fans were campaigning for him).
    Anyway he has balls and confidence to try again.
     
  13. cyberx

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    He really wanted OLY
     
  14. glimmertwins

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    Good for him - he could be a solid bench guy assuming he gains some consistency in his outside shooting. His passing made me think he was made to be a bench guy in San Antonio.
     
  15. peleincubus

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    at this point i question which is a better player brewer or papa.
     
  16. Snow Villiers

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    Any word if we are trying to acquire Ryan Anderson?
     
  17. vstexas09

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    it's only been 5 games...cool it

    save a pretzel for the gas jets
     
  18. Liberon

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    He would problem still be a Rocket signed to a new contract if he wasn't injured. He was on a roll before the major setback.
     
  19. ilovehtownbb

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    He can rally play, most ppl don't know how good he is
     
  20. benchmoochie

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    he was going to be dangled for lawson regardless. rockets had no other salary fillers to part with at the time.
     

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