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DeSagana Diop

Retired • Retired after 2014 season • C • 12 years of NBA experience

Height7'0

Weight280 lbs

Born30th January 1982 (age 44)

Nationality🇸🇳Senegal

NBA Draft8th pick, 20012001 Early Entry: Stayed in

Pre-draft teamOak Hill Academy

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Representative Teams

NBA Summer League - Las Vegas 2007 roster

Dallas Mavericks

NBA Summer League - Rocky Mountain Revue 2007 roster

Dallas Mavericks

NBA Summer League - Las Vegas 2004 roster

Cleveland Cavaliers

NBA Summer League - Orlando 2004 roster

Cleveland Cavaliers

Stats

Year	League	Team	G	MPG	PTS/G	FG	FGA	FG%	3PA	3P%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF
2001-02	NBA	Cleveland Cavaliers	18	6.1	1.4	0.7	1.6	41.4%	0.0	–	0.1	0.3	20.0%	0.3	0.7	0.9	0.3	0.1	0.6	0.7	1.1
2002-03	NBA	Cleveland Cavaliers	80	11.8	1.5	0.7	1.9	35.1%	0.0	–	0.1	0.4	36.7%	0.8	1.9	2.7	0.5	0.4	1.0	0.7	1.9
2003-04	NBA	Cleveland Cavaliers	56	13.0	2.3	1.0	2.6	38.8%	0.0	–	0.2	0.4	60.0%	1.3	2.3	3.6	0.6	0.5	0.9	0.5	2.1
2004-05	NBA	Cleveland Cavaliers	39	7.8	1.0	0.5	1.8	29.0%	0.1	0.0%	0.0	0.1	0.0%	0.8	1.0	1.8	0.4	0.2	0.7	0.3	1.4
2005-06	NBA	Dallas Mavericks	81	18.6	2.3	0.9	1.9	48.7%	0.0	50.0%	0.5	0.9	54.2%	1.8	2.8	4.6	0.3	0.5	1.8	0.4	3.1
2006-07	NBA	Dallas Mavericks	81	18.3	2.3	0.9	1.9	47.0%	0.0	0.0%	0.6	1.1	55.8%	2.0	3.4	5.4	0.4	0.5	1.4	0.8	3.0
2007-08	NBA	Dallas Mavericks	52	17.2	3.0	1.3	2.2	58.3%	0.0	–	0.5	0.8	60.0%	2.1	3.1	5.2	0.5	0.4	1.2	0.8	1.9
2007-08	NBA	New Jersey Nets	27	14.9	2.5	1.0	2.4	41.5%	0.0	–	0.5	1.1	46.7%	1.8	2.7	4.5	0.5	0.2	0.9	0.6	1.7
2007-08	NBA	Total (NBA)	79	16.4	2.9	1.2	2.3	52.2%	0.0	–	0.5	0.9	54.3%	2.0	2.9	5.0	0.5	0.3	1.1	0.7	1.8
2008-09	NBA	Dallas Mavericks	34	13.3	1.6	0.6	1.7	37.9%	0.0	–	0.4	0.9	41.4%	1.3	2.1	3.5	0.4	0.4	0.7	0.3	1.6
2008-09	NBA	Charlotte Bobcats	41	14.2	2.8	1.3	2.8	46.0%	0.0	–	0.2	0.9	27.0%	1.7	2.1	3.8	0.5	0.4	0.8	0.7	1.8
2008-09	NBA	Total (NBA)	75	13.8	2.3	1.0	2.3	43.3%	0.0	–	0.3	0.9	33.3%	1.5	2.1	3.6	0.4	0.4	0.7	0.5	1.7
2009-10	NBA	Charlotte Bobcats	27	9.7	1.2	0.6	1.1	51.7%	0.0	–	0.1	0.3	22.2%	0.9	1.5	2.4	0.2	0.2	0.5	0.4	1.1
2010-11	NBA	Charlotte Bobcats	16	11.3	1.3	0.5	1.5	33.3%	0.0	–	0.3	0.7	36.4%	0.8	1.8	2.5	0.4	0.3	0.9	0.7	1.6
2011-12	NBA	Charlotte Bobcats	27	12.0	1.1	0.6	1.6	35.7%	0.0	–	0.0	0.2	16.7%	1.2	1.9	3.1	0.9	0.2	0.5	0.7	1.3
2012-13	NBA	Charlotte Bobcats	22	10.3	0.7	0.4	1.2	29.6%	0.0	0.0%	0.0	0.0	0.0%	0.5	1.9	2.3	0.6	0.2	0.7	0.4	0.9

Teams

Date	Team
June 2001 - July 2005	Cleveland Cavaliers (NBA)
August 2005 - February 2008	Dallas Mavericks (NBA)
February 2008 - July 2008	New Jersey Nets (NBA)
July 2008 - January 2009	Dallas Mavericks (NBA)
January 2009 - June 2013	Charlotte Bobcats (NBA)
October 2013	Cleveland Cavaliers (NBA)

Transactions

Date	League	Transaction
2001 NBA Draft	NBA	Drafted 8th overall by Cleveland Cavaliers.
5th July 2001	NBA	Signed four-year, $8,637,084 rookie scale contract with Cleveland Cavaliers. Included team option for 2004/05.
28th October 2003	NBA	Cleveland Cavaliers exercised 2004/05 team option.
19th August 2005	NBA	Signed a three-year, $5,994,000 contract with Dallas Mavericks. Included team option for 2007/08.
11th May 2007	NBA	Dallas Mavericks exercised 2007/08 team option.
19th February 2008	NBA	Traded by Dallas Mavericks, along with Devin Harris, Trenton Hassell, a signed-and-traded Keith Van Horn, Maurice Ager, a 2008 first-round pick (#21, Ryan Anderson), a 2010 first-round pick (#27, Jordan Crawford) and cash to New Jersey Nets in exchange for Jason Kidd, Malik Allen and Antoine Wright.
9th July 2008	NBA	Signed a five-year, $32,393,000 contract with Dallas Mavericks. Included player option for 2012/13.
16th January 2009	NBA	Traded by Dallas Mavericks to Charlotte in exchange for Matt Carroll and Ryan Hollins.
26th June 2012	NBA	Exercised 2012/13 player option.
1st October 2013	NBA	Signed an unguaranteed one-year minimum salary contract with Cleveland Cavaliers.
25th October 2013	NBA	Waived by Cleveland Cavaliers.

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These unsigned big men are ready to help (or hurt) your team

12th December 2013

DeSagana Diop - Over the past five seasons, Diop has been arguably the worst player in the NBA. He turns 32 next month so rawness is no longer to blame.

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Chicago's Meticulously Crafted 2011 Offseason Plan That Relies An Awful Lot Upon Guesswork

9th June 2011

[T]he amnesty clause (that we're having to pretend will exist here, but which almost certainly will exist in some form) will further expand the range of available talents. A lot of decent players are going to become available, not because they can't play the game, but because they can't justify their contract. A lot of the candidates are obvious and inevitable, some perhaps less so. Here's a potential list:

- Charlotte: DeSagana Diop, Matt Carroll and Eduardo Najera - Even after the Gerald Wallace and Emeka Okafor trades, and the other thing that we're about to come to, Charlotte will still be caked in salary. Diop spent most of last season inactive, and has more than $14 million remaining over the next two years. Carroll has only $7.4 million remaining over the same time frame, but is similarly unwanted. And the aging Najera will cost $2,750,000 next season to further prop up the inactive list.