{"id":20850,"date":"2025-07-25T10:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T10:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/20850\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T10:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T10:14:08","slug":"ron-harper-jr-released-by-pistons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/20850\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Harper Jr. Released By Pistons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forward <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/h\/harpero02.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-24_bbr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ron Harper Jr.<\/a>, who was on a two-way contract, has been released by the Pistons, according to the official transaction log at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/players\/transactions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NBA.com<\/a> (hat tip to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MikeAScotto\/status\/1948497007158472991\" rel=\"nofollow\">Michael Scotto of HoopsHype<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-440845\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Ron-Harper-Jr.-vert-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\"  \/>Harper, who went undrafted out of Rutgers in 2022, spent his first year-and-a-half in the NBA on two-way contracts with the Raptors. Toronto released him in December 2023, and he was a free agent until he signed a training camp deal with Boston last summer.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old didn\u2019t make the Celtics\u2019 standard roster for 2024\/25, having been waived last October. He caught on with the Pistons in early January, but only appeared in one NBA game with Detroit.<\/p>\n<p>A 6\u20196\u2033 wing, Harper spent the majority of last season in the NBA G League, averaging 16.2 PPG, 3.9 RPG, 2.2 APG and 0.9 SPG in 37 total appearances with the Motor City Cruise and Maine Celtics (29.6 MPG). He shot 38.6% from three-point range on high volume (8.2 attempts per game).<\/p>\n<p>The Pistons have a two-way qualifying offer on the table for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/j\/jenkida01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-24_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Daniss Jenkins<\/a> and are <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2025\/07\/pistons-signing-colby-jones-to-two-way-contract.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reportedly<\/a> signing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/j\/jonesco02.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-24_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Colby Jones<\/a> on a two-way deal as well. If Jenkins returns on a two-way contract, all three of their spots will be filled.<\/p>\n<p>Harper only has three years of NBA experience, so he remains eligible for a two-way deal with another team. Harper is the son of former NBA veteran Ron Harper and the older brother of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/h\/harpedy01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-24_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dylan Harper<\/a>, who was selected No. 2 overall by the Spurs in last month\u2019s draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Forward Ron Harper Jr., who was on a two-way contract, has been released by the Pistons, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,21467,85],"class_list":["post-20850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-ron-harper-jr","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20850","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=20850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}