The Nets have 17 players under contract, 12 fully guaranteed and the five a mishmash of partial and non-guarantees. Ryan Boatright has the smallest --$75,000-- and the most urgent. The Nets don't have to pay him a dime if he's waived by August 1. But the 5'11" guard with the 41" max vertical tells Rod Boone he's confident he'll be around for training camp.
"I haven't gotten a 'for sure,' but they have been making the moves to tell you that I am here," Boatright told Boone in Las Vegas last week. "But I am going to continue to work, and continue forward and do what I've got to do until I get that guarantee.