Whitehead assigned to —then recalled from— Long Island

That was fast.

Hours after the Nets assigned Isaiah Whitehead, their second year guard, to the Long Island Nets, they recalled him. It could simply be a G-League book keeping requirement.

Here’s the two announcements from the Long Island Nets site... a little than four hours apart.

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LONG ISLAND (October 23, 2017) – Brooklyn Nets guard Isaiah Whitehead has been assigned to the Long Island Nets, the NBA G League affiliate of the Brooklyn Nets.

The assignment marks Whitehead’s first career stint with the LI Nets and also marks Long Island’s first assignment of the 2017-18 season. In 73 games (26 starts) with Brooklyn last season, Whitehead recorded averages of 7.4 points, 2.5 rebounds and 2.6 assists in 22.5 minutes per contest.

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LONG ISLAND (October 23, 2017) – Brooklyn Nets guard Isaiah Whitehead has been recalled from the Long Island Nets, the NBA G League affiliate of the Brooklyn Nets.

The assignment marked Whitehead’s first career stint with the LI Nets and also marked Long Island’s first assignment of the 2017-18 season. In 73 games (26 starts) with Brooklyn last season, Whitehead recorded averages of 7.4 points, 2.5 rebounds and 2.6 assists in 22.5 minutes per contest.

The assignment wasn’t much of a surprise. Brooklyn has a surplus of guards and wings even after Jeremy Lin was lost for the season. But the return after a few hours was. Whitehead himself tweeted out that he welcomed the move to the G-League affiliate.

Whitehead, the first Brooklyn native signed by the team, hasn’t played in the Nets first three games. He has been inactive in all three.

The 6’5” Whitehead started 26 games last year after Lin and Greivis Vasquez went down early in the season. As the season progresses, so did he, but the team has acquired Spencer Dinwiddie, D’Angelo Russell, Allen Crabbe DeMarre Carroll since and Caris LeVert returned to health. All can and have played the 1, 2 or 3, the same positions where the Nets think Whitehead is best suited.

The Long Island Nets opened training camp Monday. Their second G-League season starts on November 4 vs. the Fort Wayne Mad Ants at Nassau Coliseum. They play their lone preseason game at Nassau on October 30.

Brooklyn also announced Monday that Sean Kilpatrick will miss Tuesday’s trip to Orlando for personal reasons.

Long Island also announced their training camp roster Monday.

The 17-player roster includes the Nets two two-way contracts, Yakuba Ouattara, a 6’4” guard, and Jacob Wiley, a 6’7” power forward; as well as four players who were signed and cut by the parent club: Milton Doyle, the 6’4” point guard from Chicago Loyola; Jeremy Senglin, a 6’2” shooting guard from Weber State; Kamari Murphy, a 6’9” power forward from Miami; and Tahjere McCall, a 6’5” guard from Tennessee State.

Akil Mitchell, a 6’9” power forward from Virginia who was briefly on both the Long Island roster last year and the Brooklyn roster for training camp, returns to Long Island.

In addition, the roster includes Shannon Scott, a 6’1” point guard who played in Greece last year. Long Island traded for Scott over the weekend. He and D’Angelo Russell made up Ohio State’s starting backcourt in 2014-15.

Prince Ibeh, the 6’11” Texas product, and Kendall Gray, a 6’10” Delaware State alumni, are the team’s two biggest players.

Four players who tried out for Long Island last month were also invited: Bishop Daniels, a 6’3” guard out of Rutgers; Charlie Marquardt, a 6’3” guard out of Molloy College; Taaj Ridley, 6’7” power forward out of Iona and Caleb White, a 6’7” shooting guard out of East Carolina State.