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The Nets have upgraded Terance Mann (right hip contusion) to available for Friday’s game against Washington.
Collin Helwig: The Nets have added Terance Mann to their injury report ahead tonight's game at Philadelphia. He's probable with an illness.
Brian Lewis: Terance Mann is available for the #Nets
Brian Lewis: Cam Thomas is out tomorrow for the #Nets vs. the #Pistons with left hamstring tightness, while Nolan Traore, Ben Saraf and Danny Wolf are all on G League Assignment. Terance Mann is probable with left shoulder soreness, but Drake Powell (ankle) has been upgraded to questionable.
And across his 30 minutes, Terance Mann issued a reminder that when the Nets inevitably encounter growing pains during the latest tank-defined season of their rebuild, Mann’s ability to handle the ball and initiate offense can provide a jolt. “I mean, [Fernández] warned me that it might be that,” Mann told The Post on Thursday while at a Raising Cane’s event in Times Square to help unveil a 2,741-pound carved pumpkin that set a New York and United States record. “In some games, I might have to be on-ball. Some games, I might have to be off the ball, so I’m kinda ready for whatever.”
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But Mann said he knew the stay in Atlanta would be temporary with the club looking to acquire a difference-making big man (Porzingis) and the Nets took on the final three years and $46 million of his contract. “It didn’t come as a surprise to me,” he said. “It’s going to be crazy to play in an environment like that, something new. I’m one of the oldest guys on the team, want to be a leader, show those guys what it takes to win. I’ve been with those guys a ton [this summer] and they’re super hungry, willing to learn basketball. It’s going to be fun. I’m excited for the challenge and I feel like I was built for this. I’m in my prime right now and ready to show the world what I’ve really got outside this role I’ve been playing for the last six seasons.”
“I was super excited to be traded the first time, I kind of felt like my time in LA was up and it was time for me to get out of there,” Mann said. “I did six seasons there as a second-round pick and a lot of guys don’t get to do that so, I really felt excited to get traded to the East Coast and to an organization like Atlanta. The coaching staff was great and we had a good time.”
“It was super difficult because I really didn’t have anybody to look up to that had done it,” Mann said of growing up as a prospect in Lowell. “But it was just a dream, really, and once I was able to branch off and start playing against kids in Boston and other different cities and comparing my games to theirs and then hearing all the kids from Boston and how much success they had with players before me, like Wayne Selden, Nerlens Noel, they paved the way and once I saw their journey I just followed right behind them.”
Terance Mann on being traded: “I was super excited. I was born there. Obviously, my whole family lives there. It's just a surreal feeling because where the arena is basically where I grew up. My mom was an assistant coach at LIU Brooklyn. I remember asking my mom like, ‘Yo, what are they building over there?’ And she’s like, ‘I think Jay-Z's bringing the Nets from New Jersey to Brooklyn.’ I was in Miami with the Hawks actually, and I walked into my room and got the phone call.”
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Terance Mann on not eating bananas: I was walking on Time Square just eating a banana and then I just got sick out of nowhere and started throwing up on the street. On the street of Time Square. Cameron Brink: Time Square? Mann: Yeah. Throwing up into the trash. I remember this day like it was yesterday. I was like probably like six. Brink: Oh, you were a baby. Mann: Yeah. I don't know why, but I felt like it was the banana. So then after that, I was like, I'm going to try again. Whatever. Chop it up, put it in my cereal, threw up again. And then ever since then, it's over. I haven't had one since.
Brad Rowland: The Hawks officially announced the trade to acquire Kristaps Porzingis. Terance Mann and the No. 22 pick (which is now the draft rights to Drake Powell) going to Brooklyn. Georges Niang and Cleveland’s 2031 second round pick going to Boston.
Jake Fischer: The Hawks have been looking for advantageous trades with their $25 million TPE, and still maintained that tool by sending out Terance Mann and Georges Niang. Atlanta, $30M below the tax line, is still open for business, sources say, potentially in sign-and-trade market as well.
Erik Slater: A league source confirmed the Nets are acquiring Terance Mann and the No. 22 pick in tomorrow’s draft. Brooklyn is not sending anything out in the trade.
