The Pistons are signing forward/center Chimezie Metu for the rest of the season.
The Pistons have an open roster spot, so they won’t need to make a corresponding move.
Memphis Grizzlies rookie forward GG Jackson II signed a multi-year contract on Friday. Specific terms of the deal were not disclosed by the Grizzlies, however ESPN reported it was a four-year contract.
The Nets have finalized a trade to send forward Royce O’Neale to the Suns for matching salaries and three second-round picks.
Phoenix Suns star Kevin Durant will miss the first game of 2024 on Monday against the Portland Trail Blazers at Footprint Center with a sore hamstring.
Christmas time brought the Phoenix Suns the rotten gift of how social media can contextually twist things to create noise for a struggling star-studded team.
Early in the 3rd quarter, while the Suns trailed by 11 points to the Mavericks, Devin Booker let loose on Chimezie Metu after a lazy play. Metu, who actually had an excellent night off the bench as he contributed 19 rebounds and 23 points, threw a bad pass to Booker, resulting in a steal by Luka Doncic.
Phoenix Suns guard Devin Booker was not in good spirits Monday during his team’s double-digit loss to the Dallas Mavericks.
The Phoenix Suns received a couple big-time performances from the supporting cast on Monday against the Dallas Mavericks, as Chimezie Metu and Grayson Allen set season highs in scoring, although it came in a losing effort, 128-114.
Having lost four out of their last five games, Suns’ HC, Frank Vogel, has decided to switch up his squad’s starting lineup just a notch. Without Kevin Durant, Chimezie Metu will receive his first career start with the Suns and his first overall start since 2021.
It’s our final installment of the Suns Stock Exchange for the first quarter of the season! Before the Phoenix Suns take on the Golden State Warriors tonight, which will mark the 23rd game of the season, we are buttoning up our site analysis on the state of the Suns Stock Market.
Metu is showing flashes on the court, but will he continue to get opportunities when Kevin Durant returns? Phoenix Suns head coach Frank Vogel continues to add pieces to his rotations as the season progresses, doing so in small doses.
He shined like a diamond foe the Phoenix Suns in the preseason but has barely played since the season began. The numerous acquisitions made this offseason by Phoenix Suns’ GM James Jones have, due to injuries to Devin Booker and Bradley Beal, had an opportunity to get some runway and garner some early-season playing time.
In only three preseason games, I can see Chimezie Metu playing a good size role coming off the bench. We have heard it plenty before the preseason began and there are still rumblings that the Phoenix Suns depth might be an issue.
Across two games at the FIBA Olympic Pre-Qualifying Tournament of Africa, Chimezie Metu of the Phoenix Suns put up some impressive numbers for Team Nigeria.
Chimezie Metu was the 49th pick in the 2018 NBA Draft out of USC and spent the first five seasons of his career with the Sacramento Kings. This past year, the 26-year-old averaged 4.9 points and 3.0 rebounds per contest while shooting 58.9% from the field in 66 regular season games.
The Suns have officially added free agent forward Yuta Watanabe and center/forward Chimezie Metu, according to the NBA transactions page. Watanabe, 28, averaged 5.6 points on 49 percent shooting, including 44 percent on 3-pointers in 58 games with the Nets last season.
Following Monday's win over the Orlando Magic, Mike Brown, Harrison Barnes, Kevin Huerter and Chimezie Metu discussed the game. You can watch their comments below.
Domantas Sabonis and Giannis Antetokounmpo rekindle an old rivalry when the Sacramento Kings tip off a six-game trip with a visit to the Milwaukee Bucks on Wednesday night.
Four games in and the Sacramento Kings have yet to put together a complete game and as a result the Sacramento Kings are still winless. Seven Memphis Grizzlies finished in double digits, led by Desmond Bane's 31 points, and the Kings fell 125 to 110.
Fan video from the stands late in the fourth quarter showed Kings forward Moe Harkless exchanging words with a teammate before storming off to the locker room while the game was still going on.
Metu, 24, was a second-round pick by the Spurs in 2018. He later signed with the Kings, for whom he averaged 6.3 points in 13.6 minutes per game last season.
Both players involved were ejected for the incident, Eugene Omoruyi for a Flagrant 2 foul and Metu for throwing the punch.
The Memphis Grizzlies defeated the Sacramento Kings 124-110 on Sunday. What should have been a fairly ho-hum affair ended in dramatic and controversial fashion.
Kings forward Chimezie Metu has a fractured wrist and will be sidelined for several weeks. The injury occurred on what Kings coach Luke Walton deemed a “dangerous play” by Grizzlies center Jonas Valanciunas on Sunday.
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