EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J., July 25 -- The New Jersey Nets and free agent point guard Robert Pack have agreed to a multi-year contract, the team announced Thursday. New Jersey Director of Public Relations John Mertz confirmed the deal, but did not state when the Nets and Pack expected to sign the contract.
Terms of the deal were not released, but it is believed to be a five- year contract worth $15 million. The 27-year-old Pack would fill a major void for the Nets, who traded point guard Kenny Anderson last season and lost free agent point guard Chris Childs to the New York Knicks earlier this month. Pack played 31 games last season with the Washington Bullets. He opted out of a contract that would have paid him $1.3 million next season and the Bullets renounced his rights last week. The 6-foot-2, 190-pound Pack averaged career highs of 18.1 points and 7.8 assists per game last season, but missed 51 games because of a knee injury. The Nets would be his fourth NBA team. Pack played collegiately at Southern California but never was drafted. He made the Portland Trail Blazers as a rookie free agent in 1991 and averaged 4.6 points in his rookie campaign, helping Portland reach the 1992 NBA Finals. The Trail Blazers traded Pack to Denver and he averaged no less than 9.6 points per game in three seasons with the Nuggets. He was dealt to the Bullets for Don MacLean and Doug Overton in a trade engineered by then-Bullets general manager John Nash prior to the 1995-96 season. Nash resigned his position and became the new general manager of the Nets on June 26.
