Isaac
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Worthington considered playing in Adelaide
Poised to sign last week with New Zealand before the Breakers dropped out to pursue Kiwi-born NBA power forward Sean Marks, Worthington said the prospect of three years in Adelaide had been the most exciting of the opportunities his agent had brought to him.Full article
He subsequently signed with Gold Coast and yesterday was en route to Darwin to join the Blaze in their NBL pre-season Top End Challenge games..
"I love a challenge and Adelaide would have been good," he said.
"It's one of my favourite places to play and I definitely saw it as a challenge. But the 36ers dropped out of talks about a week ago."
Shame the timing wasn't a little better. Good to know that Adelaide is a viable free agent target though.
If you wanted to speculate (and I haven't heard anything about this at all - just guessing), you might wonder if the 36ers entertained drastic options to get this level of player into the team. e.g., shift a player to a back-up position out of the ten to free up cap space?