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Terance Mann Rumors
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.”
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.
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Jake Fischer: Atlanta made a lot of calls on Terance Mann this week, sources say. It's a 2031 Cleveland second-rounder heading to Boston along with Georges Niang. The Nets now have Nos. 8, 19, 22, 26, 27, in tomorrow night's first round lol
Terance Mann: I was born in Brooklyn Hospital, this is crazyyyyy
Michael Scotto: JUST IN: The Boston Celtics are trading Kristaps Porzingis to the Atlanta Hawks in a 3-team trade, league sources told @hoopshype. Porzingis and a second-round pick go to Hawks. Terance Mann and Atlanta's No. 22 pick to the Nets. Georges Niang and a second-rounder to the Celtics. pic.x.com/NzGxarLTvh
Bobby Marks: Here are the contracts (as of the 2025-26 season) To Atlanta *Kristaps Porzingis: $30.7M, UFA 2026 To Brooklyn *Terance Mann: $15.5M, $15.5M, $15.5M, UFA 2028 To Boston *Georges Niang: $8.5M, UFA 2026
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There was little roster maneuverability this season to pursue further improvements. Booth told local reporters following February's trade deadline that, if Denver was going to make any move, it would have depended on including Nnaji's $8.8 million salary and Dario Šarić's $5.1 million. Sources say that the Nuggets had interest in a number of available players in that price range — Terance Mann standing out among them before Mann landed with Atlanta — but Denver felt the cost was too high. Šarić's player option for next season, furthermore, was definitely viewed by potential trade partners as a deterrent. Booth's decision to award player options to Šarić and Westbrook went down as another demerit on the team's recent roster building in the view of rival cap strategists.
On April 1, Terance Mann approached his Hawks teammate Trae Young at practice with a few questions. He wasn’t looking to discuss pick-and-roll coverage or free throw shooting. Instead, he wanted to talk to Young about his new job as assistant general manager of men’s basketball at Oklahoma. The role had become official the day before. Mann attended Florida State and led the program to the 2018 Elite Eight. New Seminoles coach Luke Loucks saw Young’s new job and offered the same position to Mann, so Mann had some questions for Young. After hearing Young walk him through the gig, Mann was sold. “I’ll probably do it,” Mann told Young after picking his brain.
Mann said he’s not employed by the university—which means he’s not getting paid—but is actively doing the job while playing for the Hawks. He said he’s always been close with Loucks, a fellow former Seminole, who left his job as a Kings assistant to coach their alma mater. Mann said he’s checked the transfer portal daily and coaches have sent him film to ask for his thoughts on players they’re recruiting. He’s even in the coaches group text.
Harden and other NBA players who spoke to FOS about their NIL donations specifically said they don’t tell the coaches at their college how to do their jobs, and they trust them with their money. But Mann’s opinion—especially on player personnel—is now being actively sought. “I’m just trying to see how they can help us win,” Mann said of his scouting efforts. “Luke kind of wants to play a pro-style game similar to the NBA. So I feel like I got a good feel on where guys can fit those roles.” “I’m going to be involved as much as I can,” Young told FOS after a blowout win against the Nets. “When [Sooners coach] Porter [Moser] needs me, I’m going to be right there.”
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