Sean May, a 6-foot-9, 266-pound power forward who has not played more than 37 games in any season since Charlotte made him a lottery pick in 2005, has agreed to a one-year, non-guaranteed contract with the Nets. May will go to training camp and if he makes the team, he will earn the veteran’s minimum of roughly $854,000.
May, who won a national title with the 2005 North Carolina Tar Heels, has been hammered by conditioning issues and injuries since being the 13th overall pick. He has career averages of 6.9 points and 4.0 rebounds in just 119 games, including 37 games with the Kings last season. May’s father, Scott, was a member of Indiana’s unbeaten 1976 NCCA champs.
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The Nets play Maccabi Haifa at the Prudential Center in Newark at 7 p.m. Oct. 3, the first of three games at the Rock on the preseason schedule that includes a trip to China for games against Yao Ming and the Rockets on Oct. 13 and 16. The Nets’ preseason also has them playing Philadelphia in Roanoke, Va., Oct. 5, the Knicks in the Garden (Oct. 19) and the Celtics in Boston (Oct. 20). The Nets also play the Celtics (Oct. 7, 7 p.m.) and Sixers (Oct. 9, 1 p.m.) in Newark.