How Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot earned himself a multi-year deal with Nets

Kenny Atkinson explained after the Brooklyn Nets practiced on Friday how Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot proved himself to the organization.

For the third time this season, Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot became a full-fledged member of the Brooklyn Nets roster when he signed a deal with the organization on Friday, after originally signing with the organization as a two-way player.

But the difference between this deal and the two previous contracts he signed with Brooklyn was those two were 10-day contracts. This one is a multi-year deal. So Luwawu-Cabarrot is all set for a while.

Among those happy to see the wing sticking around for the foreseeable future is Kenny Atkinson. At Friday’s practice, Brooklyn’s head coach explained how TLC proved himself — he, essentially, proved to the Nets that the reservations they had about his game were non-issues:

The question with him [was] ‘Is he gonna defend at this level? Is he gonna give you the grit at this level?’ And he did. That was [the] consensus with him — front office [and] coaches.