Nets Sign Hite

August 17, 2007 -- The Nets didn't necessarily get bigger but they added Hite - Robert Hite - to their roster yesterday.

Hite, a 6-foot-2 guard who played 12 games for the Heat last season, signed a one-year, $687,456 minimum deal with a partial guarantee (about $20,000) after impressing the Nets on their summer league team. Hite, undrafted in 2006 out of the University of Miami, averaged 4.3 points for the Heat. In four summer league games with the Nets, he averaged 12.0 points and shot .385 overall - but .467 on 3-pointers.

Hite became more attractive to the Nets when free agent Eddie House elected to sign for more money with the Celtics, getting one year and $1.5 million. Team president Rod Thorn, who noted Hite "performed capably" in the summer league, had said the Nets were looking to sign two more minimum guys so Hite fills one of those spots.

source : nypost.com