{"id":91838,"date":"2025-08-24T07:38:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T07:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/91838\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T07:38:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T07:38:06","slug":"atlantic-notes-mann-mccain-yabusele-beasley-raptors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/91838\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlantic Notes: Mann, McCain, Yabusele, Beasley, Raptors"},"content":{"rendered":"

After spending the first five-and-a-half seasons of his NBA career with the Clippers, Terance Mann<\/a> was ready for a change when he was dealt to the Hawks at last season\u2019s trade deadline, writes Gary Washburn of The Boston Globe<\/a>. Even though his stay in Atlanta only lasted a few months, Mann believes it was good for his career.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was super excited to be traded the first time, I kind of felt like my time in L.A. was up and it was time for me to get out of there,\u201d he said. \u201cI did six seasons there as a second-round pick and a lot of guys don\u2019t 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mann was productive during his 30 games with the Hawks, averaging 9.8 points, 3.1 rebounds and 2.1 assists in 22.7 minutes per night while shooting 54.1% from the field and 38.6% from three-point range. However, Atlanta was willing to part with him this summer for the chance to land Kristaps Porzingis<\/a>, and he was shipped<\/a> to the Nets in a three-team deal.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt didn\u2019t come as a surprise to me,\u201d Mann said of the trade. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be crazy to play in an environment like that, something new. I\u2019m one of the oldest guys on the team, want to be a leader, show those guys what it takes to win. I\u2019ve been with those guys a ton (this summer) and they\u2019re super hungry, willing to learn basketball. It\u2019s going to be fun. I\u2019m excited for the challenge and I feel like I was built for this. I\u2019m in my prime right now and ready to show the world what I\u2019ve really got outside this role I\u2019ve been playing for the last six seasons.\u201d<\/p>\n

There\u2019s more from the Atlantic Division:<\/p>\n

Sixers guard Jared McCain<\/a> tells Declan Harris of Sports Illustrated<\/a> that he lost a close friend and mentor when Guerschon Yabusele<\/a> signed with the Knicks in free agency. Yabusele helped McCain deal with a difficult rookie season that was cut short by a torn meniscus in December. \u201cMan, I\u2019m gonna miss him, that\u2019s one of the best people I\u2019ve ever been around,\u201d McCain said. \u201cI could go to him for anything; a lot of my teammates are like that, but him, I gravitated to a lot. He was just super nice, just a good person and fun to play with, also another great energy person, so I\u2019m sad to see him go.\u201d
\nA league s0urce confirms to Stefan Bondy of the New York Post that the Knicks have interest in Malik Beasley<\/a> now that he\u2019s no longer a target<\/a> of a federal gambling investigation (Twitter link<\/a>). However, New York can only offer a veteran\u2019s minimum contract, and Beasley will likely have more lucrative options elsewhere.
\nThe Raptors\u2018 G League affiliate traded its first-round pick in this year\u2019s draft to the College Park Skyhawks in exchange for the returning player rights to Jarkel Joiner<\/a>, according to Blake Murphy of SportsNet (Twitter link<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After spending the first five-and-a-half seasons of his NBA career with the Clippers, Terance Mann was ready for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,20452,68172,68173,16100,85,32213],"class_list":{"0":"post-91838","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-guerschon-yabusele","12":"tag-jared-mccain","13":"tag-jarkel-joiner","14":"tag-malik-beasley","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-terance-mann"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}