{"id":120307,"date":"2025-09-05T08:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T08:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/120307\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T08:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T08:00:10","slug":"grizzlies-sign-olivier-maxence-prosper-to-two-way-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/120307\/","title":{"rendered":"Grizzlies Sign Olivier-Maxence Prosper To Two-Way Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

3:59pm: Prosper\u2019s two-way deal with the Grizzlies is official, the team announced (via Twitter<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\"\"11:48am: Free agent forward Olivier-Maxence Prosper<\/a> intends to sign a two-way contract with the Grizzlies, agents\u00a0Todd Ramasar and Mike Simonetta tell Shams Charania of ESPN (Twitter link<\/a>).<\/p>\n

According to Charania, Prosper mulled multiple contract offers before ultimately choosing Memphis. The Grizzlies were among the teams that conveyed interest in acquiring Prosper via trade before Dallas decided to waive and stretch his contract last Friday<\/a>, Charania adds (via Twitter<\/a>).<\/p>\n

However, the Mavericks were said to be reluctant to part with one of their two remaining second-rounders to shed Prosper\u2019s salary, and instead stretched it over three years, with annual cap hits of about $1MM through 2027\/28.<\/p>\n

Dallas needed to open up room under the second tax apron \u2014 at which the team is hard-capped \u2014 to re-sign Dante Exum<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Prosper has been an unrestricted free agent for a handful of days after being cut by the Mavs. The 6\u20198\u2033 Canadian spent one year at Clemson and two seasons at Marquette prior to being selected No. 24 overall in the 2023 draft.<\/p>\n

Prosper played a very modest role over his first two NBA seasons, averaging just 3.5 points and 2.2 rebounds in 10.0 minutes per game across 92 regular season outings, with a .396\/.260\/.658 shooting line.<\/p>\n

He also played 25 G League games with the Texas Legends as a rookie in 2023\/24. The 23-year-old averaged<\/a> 18.3 PPG, 7.8 RPG, 2.0 APG and 0.9 SPG on .498\/.418\/.762 shooting in those contests.<\/p>\n

As our tracker<\/a> shows, Prosper will fill the Grizzlies\u2019 third and final two-way spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"3:59pm: Prosper\u2019s two-way deal with the Grizzlies is official, the team announced (via Twitter). 11:48am: Free agent forward…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85069,85],"class_list":["post-120307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-olivier-maxence-prosper","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}