SAN ANTONIO – Eduardo Najera and Sean Williams were at practice Saturday and should be at tonight’s game against the Spurs, but it will be their last day as Nets.
The team has agreed to send Najera and a trade exception to the Dallas Mavericks for power forward Kris Humphries and Shawne Williams. The deal will be finalized Monday when the league office reopens.
To create room for the two players, Sean Williams will be waived. Upon completion of the trade, Shawne Williams also will be waived.
Nets coach/general manager Kiki Vandeweghe could not confirm anything had been reached since nothing is official. Sean Williams said he hadn’t heard anything, although he winked. But Najera said his agent told him to be prepared to pack his bags.
“He said there’s a pretty good chance,” Najera said. “I think there’s an agreement. It’s just league paperwork.”
Humphries, 24, is nine years younger than the oft-injured Najera, and has a better contract. Najera is signed through 2011-12; Humphries’ deal expires after next season.
Humphries, who has career averages of 4.3 points and 3.1 rebounds, is scheduled to make $3.2 million next season, only $200,000 more than Najera so it won’t have an impact on the Nets’ flexibility for free agents this summer.
Williams has been a disappointment since the Nets drafted him in 2007 and has been out of the rotation for most of this season.
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