Days after Admiral Schofield signed his two-way qualifying supply with the Orlando Magic, the staff has stuffed its different two-way roster slot.
The Magic signed Kevon Harris to a two-way contract Monday afternoon, the staff introduced.
Multiple league sources confirmed to the Orlando Sentinel Monday morning earlier than Orlando’s announcement that the Magic reached an agreement with Harris on a two-way deal.
Harris will occupy the Magic’s second two-way roster spot, together with Schofield, and also will be eligible to play for the Lakeland Magic, Orlando’s G League affiliate.
Introduced throughout the 2017-18 season, two-way contracts are offers meant for growth, with gamers going backwards and forwards between a franchise’s NBA staff and G League affiliate. Only gamers with fewer than 4 years of NBA expertise can signal two-way contracts. Each staff 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 staff’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.
Harris, a 6-foot-6, 216-pound guard/ahead out of Stephen F. Austin who’s finest recognized for his scoring skill as a ballhandler, was a standout throughout summer time league for the Minnesota Timberwolves, averaging 15.8 factors (57.7% from the sector, 45.8% on 3-pointers), 2.8 rebounds and a couple of assists in 5 video games (27.1 minutes).
He’s spent the final two seasons within the G League and abroad since going undrafted in 2020.
Harris, 25, 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 couple 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 yr at DME Academy in Daytona Beach in 2015-16.
The Magic have 18 gamers underneath contract for 2022-23 after signing Harris — 15 on assured commonplace contracts, one on a totally 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 throughout the offseason earlier than having to chop their rosters down to fifteen gamers on commonplace contracts (plus a pair of two-way gamers) earlier than the common season begins.
That means the Magic must commerce or waive no less than one participant to turn out to be roster compliant.
With the season not beginning till mid-October, Orlando has time to make that call.
This article first appeared on OrlandoSentinel.com. Email Khobi Price at [email protected] or observe him on Twitter at @khobi_price.
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