Spencer Dinwiddie Thanks Nets After Wizards Sign-And-Trade: BKN 'Saved My Career'

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Outgoing guard Spencer Dinwiddie thanked the Brooklyn Nets and members of the organization as his five-year run with the team comes to an end.

Dinwiddie said general manager Sean Marks, co-governors Clara Wu Tsai and Joe Tsai, and the organization as a whole "saved my career."

ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski reported the 28-year-old is on his way to the Washington Wizards as part of a sign-and-trade deal.

A second-round pick in the 2014 draft, Dinwiddie had two nondescript seasons with the Detroit Pistons before heading to the Chicago Bulls in a trade for Cameron Bairstow. The Bulls waived him in October 2016 before he appeared in a regular-season game for the team.

That's why Dinwiddie's assertion that Brooklyn "saved" his career isn't too much of a stretch.

The 6'5" guard's rise coincided with the Nets' transition from an also-ran to a playoff contender and then to a franchise with championship aspirations after signing Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving.

A partially torn ACL limited Dinwiddie to three appearances in 2020-21. Before that, he put up 20.6 points and 6.8 assists per game in 2019-20 as Brooklyn won 35 games and qualified for the postseason for the second successive year.

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Five seasons ago, Dinwiddie looked destined to bounce around the league—if he could maintain an NBA career at all. Now, he put himself in a position to earn what Marks called "generational money."

According to Wojnarowski, Dinwiddie cashed out with a three-year, $60 million contract from Washington.