The Orlando Magic have reached an agreement with Kevon Harris on a two-way contract, a number of league sources confirmed to the Orlando Sentinel Monday morning.
Once the deal is signed, Harris will occupy the Magic’s second two-way roster spot after Admiral Schofield signed his two-way qualifying provide with the Magic on Friday to return to Orlando.
Harris, a 25-year-old guard/ahead out of Stephen F. Austin, averaged 15.8 factors (57.7% from the sector, 45.8% on 3-pointers), 2.8 rebounds and a pair of assists in 5 summer season league video games (27.1 minutes) for the Minnesota Timberwolves earlier in July.
He’s spent the final two seasons within the G League and abroad since going undrafted in 2020.
Harris averaged 15 factors (47.2% taking pictures from the sector, 34.3% on 3s), 5.7 rebounds and three.5 assists in 24 video games (30.2 minutes) throughout 2021-22 with Raptors 905, the Toronto Raptors’ G League affiliate.
He averaged 14.4 factors (48.3% taking pictures, 39.7% on 3s), 5.3 rebounds and 1.6 assists throughout his 4 years at Stephen F. Austin, together with 17.5 factors, 5.7 rebounds and a pair of.1 assists his senior season, when he was named the Southland Conference males’s basketball Player of the Year.
Harris, a Georgia native who graduated from Martin Luther King Jr. High School in Lithonia, Ga., accomplished a postgraduate 12 months at DME Academy in Daytona Beach in 2015-16.
Introduced through the 2017-18 season, two-way contracts are offers meant for improvement, with gamers going forwards and backwards between a franchise’s NBA crew and G League affiliate. Only gamers with fewer than 4 years of NBA expertise can signal two-way contracts. Each crew can signal a pair of gamers to two-way offers.
Two-way gamers will as soon as once more have a 50-game restrict within the common season to be on their NBA crew’s lively 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.
The Magic could have 18 gamers underneath contract after signing Harris — 15 on assured customary contracts, one on a non-guaranteed deal (Devin Cannady) and Schofield and Harris on two-way contracts.
Teams can have as much as 20 gamers, together with two-way gamers, signed to offers through the offseason earlier than having to chop their rosters down to fifteen gamers on customary contracts (plus a pair of two-way gamers) earlier than the common season begins. That means the Magic must commerce or waive a minimum of one participant to change into roster compliant.
With the common season not beginning till mid-October, Orlando has time to make that call.
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