{"id":817775,"date":"2026-07-23T01:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T01:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/817775\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T01:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T01:56:09","slug":"jaron-pierre-jr-agrees-to-two-way-contract-with-pelicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/817775\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaron Pierre Jr. Agrees To Two-Way Contract With Pelicans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Undrafted free agent guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/p\/pierrja01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-07-22_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jaron Pierre Jr.<\/a> and the Pelicans have agreed to a two-way contract, Marc Stein of The Stein Line <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheSteinLine\/status\/2080055995468792281\" rel=\"nofollow\">tweets.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pierre played for four colleges, beginning with Southern Miss during the 2020\/21 season. After two years there, he transferred to Wichita State for one season. He was redshirted the following season and starred at Jacksonville State in 2024\/25, averaging 21.6 points, 5.5 rebounds and 3.8 assists. That earned him the Conference USA Player of the Year honors.<\/p>\n<p>He wound up at SMU for his final college year, averaging 17.6 points, 4.9 rebounds and 2.1 assists. He posted a shooting line of .462\/.370\/.758.<\/p>\n<p>The New Orleans native suited up in three Summer League games with the Pelicans and averaged 10 points in 22 minutes per game despite poor shooting percentages.<\/p>\n<p>Center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/d\/dickihu01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-07-22_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hunter Dickinson<\/a> holds one of the other two-way spots. The Pelicans will have one more two-way spot left once Pierre signs his contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Undrafted free agent guard Jaron Pierre Jr. and the Pelicans have agreed to a two-way contract, Marc Stein&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":817776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,393377,393378,575,85],"class_list":["post-817775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-hunter-dickinson","tag-jaron-pierre","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817775","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=817775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}