{"id":40282,"date":"2025-08-01T21:23:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T21:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/40282\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T21:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T21:23:10","slug":"nets-adding-ricky-council-iv-on-one-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/40282\/","title":{"rendered":"Nets adding Ricky Council IV on one-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Nets\u2019 retooling continued on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The team <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/contributor\/shams-charania\/bce58854d77c7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">is signing<\/a> former Wichita State and Arkansas star wing Ricky Council IV to a one-year deal, ESPN reported.<\/p>\n<p>The undrafted Council had a solid year for the 76ers, averaging 7.3 points and 2.9 rebounds in 72 games.\u00a0He was waived in late July.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36714610\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/council-2.jpg\" alt=\"Ricky Council with the Sixers in April 2025.\" class=\"wp-image-36714610\"  \/>Ricky Council with the Sixers in April 2025. NBAE via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.90039063;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36714611\" width=\"531\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/council-1.jpg\" alt=\"Ricky Council IV\" class=\"wp-image-36714611\"  \/>He joined the Sixers in 2023 as an undrafted free agent. NBAE via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-6 Council is part of a new-look young perimeter, which includes 2025 draftees Egor Demin, Nolan Traore, Ben Saraf and Drake Powell.<\/p>\n<p>Council is a super-athletic guard who needs to improve his 3-point shot. <\/p>\n<p>He made only 25.8 percent from deep last season, although he did shoot 37.5 percent as a rookie in 2023-24.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFollow all the basketball buzz in Brooklyn\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSign up for Inside the Nets by Brian Lewis, exclusively on Sports+.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThank you\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Council joins experienced newcomers Terance Mann and Michael Porter Jr. on the roster.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Nets\u2019 retooling continued on Friday.\u00a0 The team is signing former Wichita State and Arkansas star wing Ricky&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[6996,49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-40282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-brooklyn-nets","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}