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The Brooklyn Nets will likely sign restricted free-agent forward Donatas Motiejunas to an offer sheet as early as Friday, league sources told ESPN.The Nets have been discussing the move internally for some time and, according to one source, are comfortable with where the Lithuanian big man is medically after back issues scuttled the Houston Rockets trade of ?Motiejunas to Detroit in February.No deal with Motiejunas is expected to happen before Friday, sources said, with Brooklyn playing host to the Milwaukee Bucks on Thursday night.If the Nets indeed go through with their plans to sign Motiejunas, Houston would then have three days to match any offer.?Houston pulled its most recent offer to Motiejunas last Tuesday, when the sides couldnt come to terms on a deal before the Rockets self-imposed Nov. 22 deadline.The Nets have nearly $19 million in available salary-cap ?space to assemble an offer that will be unpalatable for Houston to match. Brooklyn, though, was foiled twice in restricted free agency over the summer, seeing its hefty offer sheets to Miamis Tyler Johnson (four years, $50 million) and Portlands Allen Crabbe (four years, $75 million) matched by those teams.Nov. 23 was the last day that players could be signed this season and remain eligible to be dealt on the leagues annual trade-deadline day, which falls on Feb. 23. ESPN reported in early November that the Rockets, as a result, picked that date as their own internal deadline to sign Motiejunas, fearing his value would decrease if they didnt have the ability to trade him.Sources told ESPN on Nov. 4 that the Rockets were offering a two-year deal starting in the $7 million range, but with only the first season fully guaranteed for the 7-foot, 223-pounder.ESPN reported last week that Motiejunas was surprised and upset that negotiations with the Rockets had dragged on so long. Motiejunas camp has been trying to drum up interest in his client from the handful of teams around the league that possess the cap space to present a representative offer sheet and appears to have found a willing suitor in Brooklyn.Motiejunas could have made himself an unrestricted free agent next summer had he been willing to play out this season on Houstons $4.4 million qualifying offer, but he let the qualifier expire Oct. 1, hopeful that a long-term deal would eventually materialize.The Rockets have been unwilling to guarantee more than the first year of a multiyear deal in a nod to the 26-year-olds injury history. Houston traded Motiejunas to Detroit in February, only for the Pistons to void the deal and send him back to the Rockets because of a failed physical stemming from Motiejunas back troubles.ESPN Staff Writer Calvin Watkins and The Undefeateds Marc ?J. Spears contributed to this report. 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The Tennessee Titans wide receiver insists he never left.Maybe not, but his injured hamstring cost him all of the preseason and the first three games of the season.Wright made it clear hes healthy now, catching eight of nine passes thrown to him for 133 yards in last weeks 28-26 win over Cleveland, the second-best performance of his career.It feels good, Wright said. Just going out there whenever my number is called and if Marcus (Mariota) throws me the ball, Ive got to be ready to make a play.That is what the Titans hoped for when drafting Wright with the 20th overall pick in 2012 out of Baylor. He looked exactly like the wide receiver this franchise has been searching for since moving to Tennessee in 1997 in 2013 with 94 catches for 1,079 yards. Then injuries kept him out of two games in 2014 and six in 2015 when he caught a career-low 36 passes for 408 yards.Now the 5-foot-10 receiver is in the final year of his contract with the general manager who drafted him fired in January. Mike Mularkey is his third head coach, and Wright is working with yet another offensive coordinator in Terry Robiskie and a new wide receivers coach in Bob Bratkowski.The Titans signed Rishard Matthews in free agency and drafted Tajae Sharpe in the fifth round in April. They also signed veteran Andre Johnson at the start of training camp. When Wright hurt his left hamstring Aug. 2, he already had been shuffled out of the starting rotation in favor of Matthews and Sharpe.He aggravated his hamstring again Aug. 29 . By the time Wright finally returned, Robiskie had made it pretty clear he couldnt judge Wright because he simply hadnt seen enough of tthe wide receiver and what he had seen looked rusty.ddddddddddddWright started his first game Oct. 2 in a loss at Houston. Then he posted the fifth 100-yard receiving game of his career last week against Cleveland, just shy of the 150 yards receiving Wright had Dec. 15, 2013, against Arizona. His big play came on a 48-yard pass from Mariota, something Mularkey and Robiskie spent time with Wright last week making clear what they wanted.The coaches didnt want Wright slowing down or turning to look back for the ball, simply run under it after Wright and Mariota just missed connecting in practice last week. In the game, Wright wound up having to stretch out for the ball before getting into the end zone.I didnt want to come in meetings and Terry be all over me about not running, Wright said.Not that it bothers Wright hearing from Robiskie.I dont really want him to lay off of me, Wright said. I mean I have a lot of room to get better with what I am doing. The more he stays on me, the more I go out there and work at it, work to do everything better. He can stay on me all he wants. I am cool with it.The Titans (3-3) now hope that Wright can help ease the double teams tight end Delanie Walker has received this season after he caught 94 passes for 1,088 yards last season. The Titans host Indianapolis (2-4) on Sunday.If you can start having some guys be productive in other areas, then its hard to cover one guy and take one guy out of the game, Mularkey said.---Online:AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and AP NFL Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/AP-NFLFollow Teresa M. Walker at www.twitter.com/teresamwalker ' ' '