The Orlando Magic transformed Admiral Schofield’s two-way contract to a regular NBA deal, a league supply informed the Orlando Sentinel on Tuesday afternoon.
The Magic confirmed the Sentinel’s reporting with an announcement later within the day.
Schofield’s new contract will run by means of the 2023-24 season.
With Schofield’s deal being transformed and R.J. Hampton being waived Tuesday, the Magic have one customary and one two-way roster spot open.
The Magic waived former franchise mainstay Terrence Ross and veteran guard Patrick Beverley, who Orlando acquired on Feb. 9 as a part of the four-team commerce that despatched Mo Bamba to the Los Angeles Lakers, final weekend.
They signed former Indiana Pacers middle Goga Bitadze on Feb. 14 as an unrestricted free agent with a kind of open roster spots and Schofield will occupy one other.
Schofield, a 25-year-old ahead who was the 2019 draft’s forty second decide, re-signed with the Magic throughout the offseason on a two-way deal after averaging 3.8 factors in 12.3 minutes (38 video games) with Orlando final season.
Introduced throughout the 2017-18 season, two-way contracts are offers supposed for improvement, with gamers going between a franchise’s NBA crew and G League affiliate. Two-way gamers have a 50-game restrict within the common season to be on their NBA crew’s energetic gameday roster.
Now that he’s signed to a regular deal, Schofield will not be restricted to the variety of video games he will be on the energetic roster.
Schofield signed with the Magic as a free agent on Sept. 21, 2021, taking part in in two preseason video games earlier than being waived three weeks later forward of the common season’s begin. He signed with the group’s G League affiliate, the Lakeland Magic, after being waived, averaging 14.4 factors and seven.2 rebounds in 33 minutes in 12 video games (10 begins) there.
Schofield was amongst a quartet of gamers whom the Magic signed to 10-day contracts by way of hardship exceptions in December 2021 from Lakeland as a result of a number of gamers had been put in COVID-19 well being and security protocols.
He signed a number of 10-day offers earlier than signing a two-way contract with Orlando in January 2022.
Schofield’s averaged 4.6 factors and 1.9 rebounds in 13 minutes (27 video games) with the Magic this season.
He was a key a part of the rotation as a reserve throughout the Magic’s 7-3 stretch from Dec. 3-21, with Schofield averaging 6.7 factors (50% taking pictures, 35.7% on 3s) and a couple of.4 rebounds in these 10 video games.
Schofield, 6-foot-5 and 240 kilos, began his NBA profession with the Washington Wizards, averaging 3 factors on 38% taking pictures and 1.4 rebounds in 11.2 minutes in 33 video games (two begins) throughout the 2019-20 season. He additionally frolicked with the Wizards’ G League crew, Capital City Go-Go, that season.
The Wizards traded Schofield throughout the 2020 draft to the Oklahoma City Thunder, they usually waived him throughout the preseason. He averaged 10.1 factors and 5.7 rebounds in 26.2 minutes per recreation with the Charlotte Hornets’ G League affiliate, the Greensboro Swarm, throughout 2020-21.
This article first appeared on OrlandoSentinel.com. Email Khobi Price at [email protected] or comply with him on Twitter at @khobi_price.
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