{"id":151259,"date":"2025-08-16T19:28:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T19:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/151259\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T19:28:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T19:28:11","slug":"hawks-signing-nfaly-dante-to-two-year-offer-sheet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/151259\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawks Signing N&#8217;Faly Dante To Two-Year Offer Sheet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Hawks<\/strong> are signing restricted free agent center <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/n\/nfalyda01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-08-16_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">N\u2019Faly Dante<\/a><\/strong> to a two-year, $4.5MM offer sheet, league sources tell Michael Scotto of HoopsHype (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MikeAScotto\/status\/1956753918219669723\">Twitter link<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-443038\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/NFaly-Dante1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\"  \/>The <strong>Rockets<\/strong> \u2014 Dante\u2019s incumbent team \u2014 will have two days to match the offer sheet. However, Houston doesn\u2019t currently have enough room under its first-apron hard cap to match the contract Dante agreed to with Atlanta, according to Keith Smith of Spotrac (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KeithSmithNBA\/status\/1956755660508725435\">Twitter link<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>As Danielle Lerner of The Houston Chronicle notes (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/danielle_lerner\/status\/1956755198400970816\">via Twitter<\/a>), the Rockets already have <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2025\/07\/2025-26-nba-two-way-contract-tracker.html\" rel=\"noopener\">three players<\/a> signed to two-way contracts, so evidently they were prepared for Dante\u2019s departure.<\/p>\n<p>A native of Mali who went undrafted in 2024 after a standout college career at Oregon, Dante signed a two-way deal with Houston last summer. The 23-year-old only made four NBA appearances for the second-seeded Rockets as a rookie, with three occurring during the final three contests of the regular season. The 6\u201911\u201d big man averaged 6.0 points, 5.3 rebounds and 1.3 blocks in 12.8 minutes per game.<\/p>\n<p>While his NBA contributions were limited, Dante had an excellent season for Houston\u2019s G League affiliate, the Rio Grande Valley Vipers, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/stats.gleague.nba.com\/player\/1642368\/?Season=2024-25&amp;SeasonType=Combined\" rel=\"noopener\">averaging<\/a> 15.1 PPG, 9.8 RPG, 1.0 SPG and 2.2 BPG while shooting 74.3% from the field in 42 games (26.8 MPG).<\/p>\n<p>As our Luke Adams <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2025\/08\/details-on-qualifying-offers-for-remaining-rfas.html\" rel=\"noopener\">recently outlined<\/a>, two-way restricted free agents rarely sign offer sheets with other teams. But clearly the Hawks like Dante, who will provide frontcourt depth behind <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/o\/okongon01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-08-16_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Onyeka Okongwu<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/p\/porzikr01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-08-16_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kristaps Porzingis<\/a><\/strong> \u2014 assuming the Rockets don\u2019t make additional moves to position themselves to match.<\/p>\n<p>Dante\u2019s deal will likely be for the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2025\/06\/nba-minimum-salaries-for-2025-26.html\" rel=\"noopener\">veteran\u2019s minimum<\/a>, which would be worth $4,459,584 across two years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hawks are signing restricted free agent center N\u2019Faly Dante to a two-year, $4.5MM offer sheet, league sources&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":151260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[88757,293,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-151259","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nfaly-dante","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}