{"id":162939,"date":"2025-09-23T04:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T04:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/162939\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T04:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T04:16:07","slug":"jazz-sign-2-new-players-including-a-7-foot-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/162939\/","title":{"rendered":"Jazz sign 2 new players, including a 7-foot center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With training camp approaching, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/utah-jazz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Utah Jazz<\/a> have added some depth.<\/p>\n<p>They made two new signings on Monday to help their organization, potentially at the G League level.<\/p>\n<p>According to NBA contract guru <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KeithSmithNBA\/status\/1970282132959568139\" rel=\"nofollow\">Keith Smith<\/a>, the Jazz have signed Matthew Murrell and Steven Crowl. Both will get Exhibit 10 contracts, which essentially give them an easy path to the G League assuming they don&#8217;t make the NBA roster.<\/p>\n<p>Both new signees played their final college season in 2024-25.<\/p>\n<p>Crowl spent all five of his college years at Wisconsin. In total, he averaged 9.7 points, 5.6 rebounds and 2.0 assists per game as a high basketball IQ big guy.<\/p>\n<p>At 7-feet tall, Crowl is a big presence inside, although he was never an impactful shot block for the Badgers.<\/p>\n<p>Murrell was also a one-school guy, spending all five of his college seasons at Ole Miss.<\/p>\n<p>He averaged 12.1 points in 2021-22, then raised that to 14.4 points and 16.2 points per game the next two seasons.<\/p>\n<p>It fell off to 10.8 points per game in his final season.<\/p>\n<p>Murrell is a career 34.8% 3-point shooter and also averaged 1.9 assists and 1.2 steals per game as a 6-foot-4 guard from Memphis.<\/p>\n<p>The Jazz are looking to start moving their franchise back in the right direction, and every young player they bring in has a chance to help in Utah down the line.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/los-angeles-lakers\/news\/lakers-luka-doncic-reveals-retirement-plans-real-madrid\/a77a3cefa05488fde150788e\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Luka Doncic reveals retirement plans involving Real Madrid<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With training camp approaching, the Utah Jazz have added some depth. They made two new signings on Monday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-162939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}