{"id":9386,"date":"2025-07-20T22:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T22:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/9386\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T22:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T22:05:07","slug":"nuggets-curtis-jones-agree-to-two-way-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/9386\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuggets, Curtis Jones Agree To Two-Way Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Undrafted free agent former Iowa State guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cbb\/players\/curtis-jones-2.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-20_cbb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Curtis Jones<\/a> has agreed to a two-way deal with the Nuggets, his NEXT Sports agent Austin Walton tells Shams Charania of ESPN (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1947022633599656112\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter link<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>As Charania notes, Jones\u2019 Summer League performance for Denver\u2019s Summer League squad clearly inspired the signing. The 6\u20194\u2033 swingman notched averages of 14.6 points, 4.4 rebounds, 3.8 assists, 0.8 steals and 0.6 blocks in just 20.2 minutes per game, with shooting averages of 54.9% from the floor and 46.7% on three-pointers.<\/p>\n<p>Jones spent his first two NCAA seasons with Buffalo, which included a 2023 All-MAC honor, before transferring to Iowa State. Last year, he was named the Big 12 Sixth Man of the Year and to the All-Big 12 first team for his play. In 34 bouts, he averaged 17.4 PPG, 4.2 RPG, and 2.3 APG, with shooting splits of .430\/.374\/.845.<\/p>\n<p>Reporting after last month\u2019s draft indicated that Jones had agreed to sign with Denver, but no further details were provided at that time, so it was presumed to be a training camp agreement. His strong Summer League showing lined him up to join\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/b\/batesta01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-20_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tamar Bates<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/j\/jonessp01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-20_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Spencer Jones<\/a> as the Nuggets\u2019 two-way players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Undrafted free agent former Iowa State guard Curtis Jones has agreed to a two-way deal with the Nuggets,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,11111,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-9386","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-curtis-jones","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9386","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=9386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}