FC Barcelona won't be counting on Rolands Smits, Brandon Davies and Nigel Hayes-Davis anymore, the club announced Friday.
All three's contracts expire on 30 June and the management will not re-negotiate a new one. Besides, Brandon Davies was announced the same day (June 24) by AX Armani Exchange Milan, while Hayes-Davies had already written his farewell message to the club and the fans and Smits has already drawn interest from Baskonia.
He joined Barca in the summer of 2019 from Zalgiris Kaunas. Davies played, in these three seasons, a total of 219 matches between the ACB League (101), the EuroLeague (99), the Copa del Rey (7), the Spanish Super Cup (6), and the Catalan League (6).
The American big man won two Cups (2021, 2022), 1 League (2021) and a Catalan League (2019). In the ACB, Davies averaged 10.3 points, 4 rebounds and 12 assists per game, while in EuroLeague he scored 10.5 points per game.
Rolands Smits signed with Barca in the summer of 2017, coming from Fuenlabrada, but did not join the Catalans until the summer of 2018. The Latvian forward, who played four seasons at the Palau, amassed a total of 257 games and won five titles - 3 Spanish Cups, one ACB League and one Catalan League trophy.
Nigel Hayes-Davis closed his stint in Barcelona after having played 84 of the 90 possible games during the 2021-22 season. His best performance with the team was in the away win over Red Star, where he had 14 points, 8 rebounds and 23 in PIR.
| FC Barcelona | |
Position | Player | Status |
PG | Nick Calathes | Signed until 2023 |
PG | Rokas Jokubaitis | Signed until 2023 +2 |
PG/SG | Nicolas Laprovittola | Signed until 2023 |
SG | Cory Higgins | Signed until 2024 |
SG | Kyle Kuric | Signed until 2023 |
SF | Alex Abrines | Signed until 2026 |
PF | Nikola Mirotic | Signed until 2025 |
PF | Sergi Martinez | Signed until 2024 |
C | Sertac Sanli | Signed until 2023 |
C | Pierre Oriola | Signed until 2024 |
C | James Nnaji | Long-term contract |
Coach | Sarunas Jasikevicius | |
Expired contract | Dante Exum, Nigel Hayes-Davis (will not return), Rolands Smits (will not return), Brandon Davies (will not return) | |
Rumored to leave | Nick Calathes (story), Cory Higgins, Brandon Davies (story), Rolands Smits (story) | |
Interested | Scottie Wilbekin, Oscar Da Silva (story), Jan Vesely (story), Tomas Satoransky (story), Dante Exum |
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