{"id":514470,"date":"2026-03-02T19:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T19:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/514470\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T19:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T19:46:07","slug":"thunder-sign-payton-sandfort-to-two-way-deal-waive-boeheim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/514470\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder sign Payton Sandfort to two-way deal, waive Boeheim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OKLAHOMA CITY &#8212; The <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"bd458c44-2d33-47eb-cebc-35d3d4ac595c\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/okc\/oklahoma-city-thunder\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> have signed Payton Sandfort to a two-way contract and waived guard <a data-player-guid=\"afdbbbc8-15b1-c5c2-504a-464d68fb34bd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4395676\/buddy-boeheim\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Buddy Boeheim<\/a>, the team announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Sandfort, a 6-foot-7 forward who played his college ball at <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"b7840e2f-6236-e764-2cae-20286a0829e7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mens-college-basketball\/team\/_\/id\/2294\/iowa-hawkeyes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iowa<\/a>, has played in 21 games this season with the Oklahoma City Blue, the Thunder&#8217;s G-League affiliate. He has averaged 11.0 points, 5.2 rebounds and 2.1 assists as a rookie.<\/p>\n<p>During Sandfort&#8217;s senior year at Iowa, he averaged 16.7 points, 6.0 rebounds and 2.9 assists.<\/p>\n<p>Boeheim was signed to a two-way contract Feb. 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OKLAHOMA CITY &#8212; The Oklahoma City Thunder have signed Payton Sandfort to a two-way contract and waived guard&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-514470","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\/514470","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=514470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}