Brooklyn Nets center Tyler Zeller is playing big minutes this season and producing some of the best numbers of his career.
The 7-foot big man out of North Carolina, playing in his sixth professional season with his third different NBA team, is seeing more minutes on the court than he has since his time with the Boston Celtics in 2015.
After missing the first five games of the 2017-18 season, Zeller has started 19 of the Nets’ 22 games. And the three games that Zeller wasn’t in the starting lineup, he wasn’t available to play.
In those 19 games, the former ACC Player of the Year has logged 19 minutes per game, the most since his first season in Boston when he averaged just over 21 a game.