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MEN'S BASKETBALL: Free Agent Wells could take game overseas
The MAC's all-time leading scorer is in contact with NBA, international teams
Bonzi Wells has played for five NBA teams throughout his 10-year professional career.
There is now a chance of the Mid-American Conference's all-time leading scorer taking his game overseas.
Publicist Illana Nunn of BDA Sports, who represents Wells, said Monday that Wells is surveying offers from international basketball organizations.
"We are in communications with a few NBA teams and looking at offers in Spain and China," Nunn said in an e-mail.
Nunn had no information to give when asked what NBA teams were interested in Wells.
Wells - whose No. 42 is one of two retired Ball State University men's basketball numbers along with Ray McCallum's No. 10 - became an unrestricted free agent at the end of last season when his most current team, the New Orleans Hornets, decided not to resign the 32-year-old shooting guard after acquiring him from the Houston Rockets in a midseason three-team trade. Wells averaged 8.8 points, 3.2 rebounds and 1.1 steals in 22 games for the Hornets.
During his career, Wells has averages of 12.1 points, 4.6 rebounds, 2.1 assists and 1.3 steals combined with the Hornets, Rockets, the Sacramento Kings, Memphis Grizzlies and the Portland Trail Blazers.
Wells, a Muncie Central High School graduate, accumulated 2,485 points and 347 steals - both best all-time in the MAC - during his Ball State career from 1995-98. He was selected by the Detroit Pistons as the No. 11 overall pick in the 1998 NBA Draft before being immediately traded to Portland.
There is now a chance of the Mid-American Conference's all-time leading scorer taking his game overseas.
Publicist Illana Nunn of BDA Sports, who represents Wells, said Monday that Wells is surveying offers from international basketball organizations.
"We are in communications with a few NBA teams and looking at offers in Spain and China," Nunn said in an e-mail.
Nunn had no information to give when asked what NBA teams were interested in Wells.
Wells - whose No. 42 is one of two retired Ball State University men's basketball numbers along with Ray McCallum's No. 10 - became an unrestricted free agent at the end of last season when his most current team, the New Orleans Hornets, decided not to resign the 32-year-old shooting guard after acquiring him from the Houston Rockets in a midseason three-team trade. Wells averaged 8.8 points, 3.2 rebounds and 1.1 steals in 22 games for the Hornets.
During his career, Wells has averages of 12.1 points, 4.6 rebounds, 2.1 assists and 1.3 steals combined with the Hornets, Rockets, the Sacramento Kings, Memphis Grizzlies and the Portland Trail Blazers.
Wells, a Muncie Central High School graduate, accumulated 2,485 points and 347 steals - both best all-time in the MAC - during his Ball State career from 1995-98. He was selected by the Detroit Pistons as the No. 11 overall pick in the 1998 NBA Draft before being immediately traded to Portland.
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