Ignas Brazdeikis is transferring on from the Orlando Magic after being with the group for over a 12 months.
Brazdeikis, who was on a two-way cope with the Magic in the course of the 2021-22 season, signed a contract with Zalgiris Kaunas of the Lithuanian Basketball League and EuroLeague, the staff introduced Sunday.
He signed a two-year cope with an possibility for the second season, Zalgiris Kaunas said.
Brazdeikis was an unrestricted free agent this offseason after the Magic didn’t tender him a two-way qualifying provide earlier than free company began on July 1.
For Brazdeikis, signing with Zalgiris Kaunas shall be a homecoming. He was born in Kaunas, Lithuania however his household moved to Chicago earlier than settling in Ontario, Canada whereas he was a child.
After enjoying for Canada’s nationwide groups in youth tournaments, Brazdeikis regained his Lithuanian citizenship in May 2021 and is enjoying for Lithuania’s males’s nationwide basketball staff. He performed in Lithuania’s FIBA World Cup European Qualifiers earlier in July.
Brazdeikis performed a career-high 536 minutes in 42 video games whereas on a two-way contract with the Magic final season.
He had season-long averages of 5.1 factors and 1.7 rebounds in 12.8 minutes, together with 10.3 factors (46.7% taking pictures) and a couple of.9 rebounds in 23 minutes in his ultimate 12 video games.
Brazdeikis initially joined the Magic on a 10-day contract on May 2, 2021, earlier than signing with the staff for the rest of the season.
He averaged 11.1 factors (40.7% taking pictures on 3s), 5.1 rebounds and a couple of assists in his ultimate eight video games of 2020-21 and signed the two-way deal final summer season.
Brazdeikis was chosen out of Michigan by the Sacramento Kings within the 2019 draft’s second spherical (forty seventh total) earlier than enjoying a mixed 14 NBA video games with the New York Knicks and Philadelphia 76ers previous to becoming a member of the Magic towards the top of the 2020-21 season.
Introduced in the course of the 2017-18 season, two-way contracts are offers meant for growth, with gamers going forwards and backwards between a franchise’s NBA staff and G League affiliate. Each staff can signal a pair of gamers to two-way offers.
The Magic have one two-way roster slot remaining after Admiral Schofield signed his two-way qualifying provide with the Magic on Friday.
Two-way gamers will as soon as once more have a 50-game restrict within the common season to be on their NBA staff’s energetic roster in 2022-23 after the NBA and the National Basketball Players Association had scrapped that restrict in 2021-22 due to groups’ COVID-19 outbreaks.
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