{"id":842622,"date":"2026-08-04T00:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T00:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/842622\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T00:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T00:28:09","slug":"pelicans-to-sign-caleb-houstan-to-one-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/842622\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelicans To Sign Caleb Houstan To One-Year Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Pelicans plan to sign Caleb Houstan<\/a> to a one-year contract, according to Michael Scotto of HoopsHype, who reports (via Twitter<\/a>) that the free agent wing will be competing for New Orleans\u2019 final standard roster spot.<\/p>\n

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While he doesn\u2019t state it outright, Scotto\u2019s wording suggests Houstan\u2019s contract will be non-guaranteed. The Pelicans currently have 14 players on guaranteed standard contracts. Houstan will likely be competing with Kobe Bufkin<\/a> and Christian Koloko<\/a> \u2014 who are both<\/a> signed<\/a> to non-guaranteed training camp deals \u2014 for the 15th spot.<\/p>\n

A 6\u20198\u2033 small forward who was selected 32nd overall in the 2022 draft, Houstan spent three years on a standard contract with Orlando prior to becoming a free agent last summer. He initially signed an Exhibit 10 training camp deal with Atlanta but was promoted to a two-way contract shortly before 2025\/26 began.<\/p>\n

Although Houstan\u2019s role with the Hawks last season was very modest, he was promoted to a standard contract in February before being waived in early April to make roster space for Tony Bradley<\/a>. Atlanta was looking for a backup center at the time due to an ankle injury to Jock Landale<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Houstan averaged 4.1 points and 1.5 rebounds in 168 games with the Magic (14.4 minutes per game). He averaged 4.2 MPG in 18 appearances with the Hawks in 2025\/26, and also made 34 G League appearances (33.4 MPG) with the College Park Skyhawks, averaging 16.3 PPG, 4.4 RPG and 2.2 APG.<\/p>\n

The 23-year-old Canadian, who played one year of college ball at Michigan prior to being drafted, is known as an outside shooting specialist: 84.4% of his career field goal attempts have come from behind the arc, and he has made 37.8% of those three-point tries.<\/p>\n

Houstan, who is no longer eligible for a two-way contract, will be reuniting with former Magic head coach Jamahl Mosley, who was hired to be New Orleans\u2019 new coach after being fired by Orlando, Scotto notes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pelicans plan to sign Caleb Houstan to a one-year contract, according to Michael Scotto of HoopsHype, who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":842623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,414779,85],"class_list":["post-842622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-caleb-houstan","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842622","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=842622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/842623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}