{"id":491657,"date":"2026-02-20T04:37:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T04:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/491657\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T04:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T04:37:12","slug":"philadelphia-76ers-sign-jabari-walker-to-standard-nba-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/491657\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia 76ers Sign Jabari Walker To Standard NBA Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/homepage-news-size-19.png\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_p__u4Ntj Paragraph_teamParagraph__MbBGy blockStyles_richtext__x20OG\">\nPHILADELPHIA \u2014 FEB\u00a019, 2026 \u2014\u00a0Philadelphia 76ers President of Basketball Operations Daryl\u00a0Morey announced today that the team has signed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/sixers\/76ers-players\/jabari-walker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jabari Walker<\/a>\u00a0to a standard NBA contract.\u00a0Per team policy, terms of the deal were not disclosed.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_p__u4Ntj Paragraph_teamParagraph__MbBGy blockStyles_richtext__x20OG\">\nOriginally signed to a two-way contract on July 5, 2025, Walker has appeared in 45 games for the 76ers this season, averaging 3.7 points and 3.1 rebounds in 12.1 minutes.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_p__u4Ntj Paragraph_teamParagraph__MbBGy blockStyles_richtext__x20OG\">\nThe Kansas native has scored in double figures on three occasions, including a season-high 18 points on 5-of-10 shooting (4-8 3FG) at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/sixers\/76ers-matchups\/milwaukee-bucks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Milwaukee<\/a>\u00a0on Dec. 5, 2025. He recorded his first double-double of the season just two games prior against\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/sixers\/76ers-matchups\/washington-wizards\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Washington<\/a>\u00a0on Dec. 2, tallying 10 points (4-9 FG) and 12 rebounds.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_p__u4Ntj Paragraph_teamParagraph__MbBGy blockStyles_richtext__x20OG\">\nOriginally selected by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/sixers\/76ers-matchups\/portland-trail-blazers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Portland<\/a>\u00a0in the second round (57th overall) of the 2022 NBA Draft, Walker\u00a0has averaged 5.7 points on 45.6-percent shooting and 4.2 rebounds in 233 career games (30 starts) with\u00a0the Trail Blazers and 76ers.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA \u2014 FEB\u00a019, 2026 \u2014\u00a0Philadelphia 76ers President of Basketball Operations Daryl\u00a0Morey announced today that the team has signed\u00a0Jabari&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-491657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491657","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=491657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}