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Fri Sep 11 08:27am EDT

Nets bringing J.R. Rider back to the NBA?

By Mark Miller

J.R. Rider hasn't been in the NBA since he put in 10 games with the Denver Nuggets way back in 2001-02, but the word is that the New Jersey Nets are thinking about giving the 38-year-old a chance in training camp to return to the NBA, according to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.

Rider has a troubling history of arrests and convictions and teams that wanted to just ditch him for being a distraction but he appears to be a wanted man right now. If it doesn't work out with the Nets, which is how most expect things to go, Rider apparently has a deal that he's working out with American Basketball Association's North Texas Fresh as well as with a European team.

Rider has supposedly been getting himself into shape by playing pickup games with college guys in the suburbs of Phoenix, where he lives now.

Source: Minneapolis Star-Tribune

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