Basketball
Panathinaikos dropped the bombshell: they announced Kendrick Nunn
Kendrick Nunn is also a Panathinaikos player as the green KAE announced his acquisition.
Panathinaikos detonated the bomb with Kendrick Nunn, the 28-year-old green-clad security guard. Previously, KAE Panathinaikos boss Dimitris Giannakopoulos welcomed Nan with a story on his Instagram account.
Nan signed until the end of the season, the total cost of his move to the club amounting to two million euros. The 28-year-old guard will be in Greece next week, more precisely on Monday (November 6th).
Sportish and Stefanos Makris presented Nan’s profile. His pick-and-roll ability, the way he opens the field with his shot, and the handoff plays that add up to something special.
Announcement from Panathinaikos:
“KAE Panathinaikos announces the acquisition of Kendrick Nan until the end of the 2023-2024 season.
Kendrick Nunn was born on August 3, 1995 in Chicago, USA and is 1.91 m tall. and competes at the guard positions. He played in the NBA from 2019 to 2023 and averaged 12.1 points, 2.4 assists and 2.4 rebounds in 193 regular season games.
He played three years at the University of Illinois and was named to the Big Ten All-Freshman team in the 2013-14 season while completing his college career at Oakland University. In his final season there, he averaged 25.9 points, 4.7 rebounds and 3.8 assists.
In 2018, he signed a partially guaranteed contract with the Golden State Warriors and in the 2018-19 season he played for the Santa Cruz Warriors of the G League, averaging 19.3 points, 3.8 rebounds and 2.8 assists .
In April 2019, he signed with the Miami Heat and recorded 15.3 points, 3.3 rebounds and 2.7 assists in 67 games during the 2019-20 season, all of which he started!
He averaged 14.6 points, 3.2 rebounds and 2.6 assists in 56 games during the 2020-21 season. On May 15, 2021, Nunn recorded 31 points, 6 rebounds and 3 assists in a 108-122 loss to the Bucks.
On August 6, 2021, Nunn signed a two-year, $10 million contract with the Los Angeles Lakers and averaged 6.7 points and 1.4 rebounds per game during the 2022–23 season.
In January 2023, he signed with the Washington Wizards and finished the season with averages of 7.5 points, 1.8 assists and 1.7 rebounds.
Nunn was a member of the minor US national teams from a young age. Won the gold medal with Team USA at the 2011 U16 Pan American Championships in Cancun, Mexico. He was selected to the team for the 2012 U17 World Cup, held in Kaunas, Lithuania from June 29 to July 8, 2012. As with the 2011 U16 Pan American Championships, Nunn once again helped Team USA win gold.
Source: sport 24
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