{"id":932485,"date":"2026-10-18T10:26:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T10:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/932485\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T10:26:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T10:26:16","slug":"jazz-claim-tony-bradley-off-waivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/932485\/","title":{"rendered":"Jazz Claim Tony Bradley Off Waivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>6:38 pm: Utah has confirmed its waiver claim on Bradley (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/utahjazz\/status\/2111589867939631135\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter link<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>4:11 pm: The Jazz have claimed veteran center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/b\/bradlto01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-10-17_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tony Bradley<\/a> off the waiver wire, sources tell Shams Charania of ESPN (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/2111563967961424353\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter link<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Tony-Bradley-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-494100\"  \/>Bradley was cut by the Knicks on Thursday. He was one of five veterans on Exhibit 9 contracts competing for a regular season roster spot in New York.<\/p>\n<p>As Bobby Marks of ESPN notes (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BobbyMarks42\/status\/2111564395193188583\" rel=\"nofollow\">via Twitter<\/a>), Bradley\u2019s non-guaranteed training camp deal will be converted to a standard non-guaranteed contract. His earnings will increase each day he\u2019s on Utah\u2019s roster until January, when the league-wide guarantee date occurs \u2014 if he\u2019s retained beyond that date, his full minimum salary would become guaranteed.<\/p>\n<p>Bradley spent his first three NBA seasons with the Jazz after being selected 28th overall in the 2017 draft. He has made 234 regular season appearances over the course of his eight years in the league, including 41 in 2025\/26 for Indiana and Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>Bradley, 28, holds career averages of 4.3 points and 3.8 rebounds in 10.9 minutes per contest and recorded 5.3 PPG and 1.7 RPG in 7.5 MPG in three preseason games for the Knicks this month.<\/p>\n<p>With <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/n\/nurkiju01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-10-17_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jusuf Nurkic<\/a> out to open the season due to a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2026\/10\/jusuf-nurkic-to-miss-at-least-4-weeks-with-toe-injury.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">toe injury<\/a>, Utah was looking for reinforcements in the middle and found one in Bradley, who will occupy the 15th spot on the Jazz\u2019s standard roster. Utah\u2019s other centers include <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/h\/hayesja02.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-10-17_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jaxson Hayes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/b\/bambamo01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-10-17_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mo Bamba<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/f\/filipky01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-10-17_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kyle Filipowski<\/a>, who made his preseason debut on Friday after undergoing <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2026\/10\/kyle-filipowski-still-recovering-from-offseason-back-surgery.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">offseason back surgery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bradley will earn $3.51MM this season if he sticks with the Jazz through the January guarantee date, while the team will carry a $2.45MM cap hit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"6:38 pm: Utah has confirmed its waiver claim on Bradley (Twitter link). 4:11 pm: The Jazz have claimed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":932486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85,169668],"class_list":["post-932485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports","tag-tony-bradley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932485","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=932485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/932486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}