{"id":759086,"date":"2026-06-25T09:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T09:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/759086\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T09:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T09:44:08","slug":"hornets-michael-ajayi-agree-to-two-way-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/759086\/","title":{"rendered":"Hornets, Michael Ajayi Agree To Two-Way Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Hornets intend to sign undrafted free agent forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cbb\/players\/michael-ajayi-1.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-06-25_cbb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Michael Ajayi<\/a> to a two-way contract, league sources tell Tony Jones of The Athletic (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Tjonesonthenba\/status\/2070012365588799702\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter link<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>A 6\u20197\u2033 wing, Ajayi had a well-traveled college career, playing two years of junior college ball before suiting up for Pepperdine, Gonzaga and Butler over the past three seasons. As a senior for the Bulldogs in 2025\/26, he averaged 16.4 points, 11.1 rebounds, 3.2 assists, 1.1 steals and 0.9 blocks in 33.6 minutes per game.<\/p>\n<p>While Ajayi was highly productive in his final college season, he wasn\u2019t the most efficient offensive player, posting a .455\/.261\/.653 shooting slash line in his 32 appearances.<\/p>\n<p>Ajayi, who was a first-team All-Big East honoree with Butler, was ranked 63rd on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/46886245\/2026-nba-draft-big-board-rankings-top-100-prospects-players\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jeremy Woo\u2019s big board for ESPN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Two-way contracts, which allow a team to shuttle a player back and forth between the NBA and the G League, are non-guaranteed and don\u2019t count against the salary cap. Ajayi projects to earn $679K as a rookie next season, assuming he sticks with Charlotte beyond the league-wide salary guarantee date in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hornets intend to sign undrafted free agent forward Michael Ajayi to a two-way contract, league sources tell&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":759087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,362808,575,85],"class_list":["post-759086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-michael-ajayi","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759086","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=759086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/759087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}