{"id":559823,"date":"2026-03-23T22:07:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T22:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/559823\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T22:07:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T22:07:12","slug":"raptors-sign-guard-markelle-fultz-to-10-day-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/559823\/","title":{"rendered":"Raptors sign guard Markelle Fultz to 10-day contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"sn-player-post-link\" data-player=\"41edefa9-a2f9-447d-9578-d2ea2a0d783d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/players\/markelle-fultz\/41edefa9-a2f9-447d-9578-d2ea2a0d783d\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Markelle Fultz<\/a> has signed a 10-day contract with the Raptors, the team announced on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Selected first by the Philadelphia 76ers are part of their infamous &#8220;trust the process&#8221; era in 2017, Fultz never fulfilled the promise of his prospect pedigree, flaming out after two injury-marred seasons in Philly.<\/p>\n<p>He was traded to the Orlando Magic at the 2019 trade deadline and went on to spend five seasons bouncing between a starting role and the bench.<\/p>\n<p>Fultz moved to the Sacramento Kings last season, but he 28-year-old combo guard averaged only 8.8 minutes over 21 games. He holds career averages of 10.4 points, 3.2 rebounds and 4.4 assists in 255 games spread over eight season.<\/p>\n<p>The Upper Marlboro,\u00a0Md., native has also shot just 28 per cent from three-point range for his career on an average of 1.2 attempts per game.<\/p>\n<p>Fultz was claimed off waivers by the Raptors G League affiliate, Raptors 905, on March 6 and played five games with the team, averaging 9.8 points, 2.5 rebounds and 5.3 assists per game. He made a game-winning shot against the Motor City Cruise on March 17.<\/p>\n<p>Fultz could see minutes as a depth guard for the Raptors as they seek players who can break down a defence with their dribble, one of Fultz&#8217;s primary skills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Markelle Fultz has signed a 10-day contract with the Raptors, the team announced on Monday. Selected first by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-559823","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\/559823","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=559823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}