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Terance Mann Rumors
Terance Mann: 'I'm ready to show the world what I’ve really got outside this role I’ve been playing'
But Mann said he knew the stay in Atlanta would be temporary with the club looking to acquire a difference-making big man (Porzingis) and the Nets took on the final three years and $46 million of his contract. “It didn’t come as a surprise to me,” he said. “It’s going to be crazy to play in an environment like that, something new. I’m one of the oldest guys on the team, want to be a leader, show those guys what it takes to win. I’ve been with those guys a ton [this summer] and they’re super hungry, willing to learn basketball. It’s going to be fun. I’m excited for the challenge and I feel like I was built for this. I’m in my prime right now and ready to show the world what I’ve really got outside this role I’ve been playing for the last six seasons.”
“I was super excited to be traded the first time, I kind of felt like my time in LA was up and it was time for me to get out of there,” Mann said. “I did six seasons there as a second-round pick and a lot of guys don’t 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.”
“It was super difficult because I really didn’t have anybody to look up to that had done it,” Mann said of growing up as a prospect in Lowell. “But it was just a dream, really, and once I was able to branch off and start playing against kids in Boston and other different cities and comparing my games to theirs and then hearing all the kids from Boston and how much success they had with players before me, like Wayne Selden, Nerlens Noel, they paved the way and once I saw their journey I just followed right behind them.”
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.”
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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.
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
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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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