{"id":261769,"date":"2025-11-04T20:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T20:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/261769\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T20:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T20:04:09","slug":"cavs-sign-akron-native-to-2-way-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/261769\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavs sign Akron native to 2-way contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CLEVELAND \u2014 The Cavaliers signed Akron native Chris Livingston to a two-way contract, according to Cavs President of Basketball Operations Koby Altman.<\/p>\n<p>Livingston appeared in 21 games last season for the Milwaukee Bucks \u2014 starting one of them \u2014 and made 18 appearances, 13 of them starts, in the NBA G League for the Wisconsin Herd. He averaged 18.1 points, 8.1 rebounds and 1 steal a game in the G League. <\/p>\n<p>The Bucks drafted the 6-foot-6-inch, 228-pound player with the No. 58 pick of the 2023 NBA Draft after one season at Kentucky. <\/p>\n<p>Livingston attended Buchtel, as well as Western Reserve Academy, and was named Gatorade Ohio Boys Basketball Player of the Year in 2021. <\/p>\n<p>He will wear No. 8 for the Cavs. <\/p>\n<p>We Follow Through<\/p>\n<p>Want us to continue to follow through on a story? Let us know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND \u2014 The Cavaliers signed Akron native Chris Livingston to a two-way contract, according to Cavs President of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[121273,461,49,48,42549,121274,4850,2357,78524,459,98252,98253,82],"class_list":["post-261769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-akron-native","tag-basketball","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cavs","tag-chris-livingston","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-g-league","tag-nba","tag-news5cleveland","tag-northeast-ohio-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261769","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=261769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}