{"id":238653,"date":"2025-08-19T01:22:29","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T01:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/238653\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T01:22:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T01:22:29","slug":"hawks-poach-restricted-free-agent-center-nfaly-dante-from-rockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/238653\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawks poach restricted free agent center N&#8217;Faly Dante from Rockets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>N&#8217;Faly Dante barely had a cup of coffee in the NBA last season, just getting in four games for the Rockets and playing a total of 51 minutes. However, the undrafted center out of Oregon showed promise in the G-League, averaging 15.1 points and 9.8 rebounds for the Rio Grande Valley Vipers.<\/p>\n<p>That was enough to get the Atlanta Hawks to make a qualifying offer to the restricted free agent Dante, a two-year, $4.5 million contract. The Rockets, with a full roster (including all three two-way spots) could not match the offer, <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MikeAScotto\/status\/1957513837168718293\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:reports Michael Scotto of Hoopshype;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">reports Michael Scotto of Hoopshype<\/a>. The offer was for $2 million next season and the Rockets are $1.3 million below a hard cap at the first apron.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>That makes Dante an Atlanta Hawk.<\/p>\n<p>This is a minimum contract and likely not guaranteed for the second year (the details of the contract are not yet known).<\/p>\n<p>This is a real opportunity for Dante, although he is going to have to earn minutes behind projected starting center Onyeka Okongwu, the just-acquired Kristaps Porzingis, rookie Asa Newell, and Mouhamed Gueye, who played in 33 games for Atlanta last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"N&#8217;Faly Dante barely had a cup of coffee in the NBA last season, just getting in four games&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3776],"tags":[975,676,208,3874,7,4445,677,871,7057,6449,6,493,23940,211,1101],"class_list":{"0":"post-238653","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-hawks","8":"tag-asa-newell","9":"tag-atlanta","10":"tag-atlanta-hawks","11":"tag-atlantahawks","12":"tag-basketball","13":"tag-dante","14":"tag-hawks","15":"tag-kristaps-porzingis","16":"tag-michael-scotto","17":"tag-mouhamed-gueye","18":"tag-nba","19":"tag-onyeka-okongwu","20":"tag-rio-grande-valley-vipers","21":"tag-rockets","22":"tag-the-rockets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115052816012221637","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}