Nehemiah Queta will start the 2021/2022 NBA season with the Kings.
The news can only be confirmed on Monday when Sacramento will present the league’s lineup for the 46th regular season, which begins the following day, but after the club released the overtime/published number Emmanuel Terry after the Lakers’ victory. (116-112) In the last game of the preparatory season, the team was reduced to 17 elements, indicating that the 22-year-old Portuguese position, who was selected in 39th place of the 2021 draft, will be part of the coach’s calculations. Luke Walton and General Manager Monty McNair.
For now at least, he won’t be joining the Stockton Kings of League G, who continue to develop in Sacramento and cement his ambition of becoming the first Portuguese to play in the NBA. In the pre-season, the league allows clubs to register 20 players, but in the league there can only be 15 players.
However, since the two-way contracts were created – they allow basketball players with concurrent ties to the NBA and G-League – in addition to the 15-player team, additional players are allowed in this state.
Those are the cases of Nehemiah and winger Louis King and three days before the start of the season, Sacramento is not expected to catch someone.
The first game will be on Wednesday against the Blazers in Portland. In pre-season, Quetta played only 2.37 meters against Portland, having scored two points and one rebound.
