Nets guard Spencer Dinwiddie is reportedly making a change forward of the 2020-21 season.

Dinwiddie has parted methods together with his agent, Roc Nation’s Raymond Brothers, in line with Shams Charania of The Athletic and Stadium.

He’s “severely” contemplating representing himself going ahead, Charania added of Dinwiddie.

The information is important as a result of Dinwiddie, 27, has a participant choice to choose out of his contract after a fifth yr with the Nets in 2021. Dinwiddie is getting into the second of a three-year contract that he signed Dec. 13, 2018, for roughly $34 million.

His participant choice for the 2021-22 season is an approximate wage of $12 million. Nonetheless, he may hit NBA free company subsequent offseason as a substitute, testing the marketplace for a staff in want of a beginning guard after coming off the Nets’ bench.

With licensed stars similar to Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving again to full well being after an injury-plagued 2019-20, plus Caris LeVert‘s emergence, Dinwiddie tasks because the Nets’ sixth man in 2020-21. Dinwiddie took benefit of an expanded position in 2019-20 by averaging a career-high 20.eight factors, 3.5 rebounds and 6.eight assists in 31.2 minutes whereas beginning 49 of 64 video games.

Whereas he’s uncertain of his actual spot as a starter or bench participant for the Nets in 2020-21, Dinwiddie mentioned final Friday on ESPN’s The Bounce that he is aware of his place on a Durant- and Irving-led staff. Dinwiddie in contrast his potential position to Draymond Inexperienced on the Golden State Warriors from 2014-19, when a handful of gamers — together with Steph Curry (2009-present), Klay Thompson (2011-present) and Durant (2016-19) — starred over Inexperienced (2012-present).

“Clearly, we do not know who’s going to start out and who’s going to come back off the bench, as of proper now — and that is with KD and Kyrie excluded, after all,” he mentioned. “However actually, when all this was being shaped, I considered myself as — we had been going to take the Golden State mannequin, as form of the Draymond Inexperienced, the glue, ? Typically I get 10 boards, typically I get 10 assists, typically I rating a bit of bit extra — no matter it’s — as a result of, clearly, we’ve a brilliant dynamic level guard and we even have the best scorer of all time.

“In order that’s form of how I all the time considered myself when it was being talked about and put collectively. So I might be blessed to have that position this yr and attempt to win a championship.”