Feb 16, 2026, 06:31 PM ET<\/p>\n
The Philadelphia 76ers<\/a> intend to sign two-way forward Jabari Walker<\/a> to a new two-year contract in the coming days, sources told ESPN’s Shams Charania on Monday.<\/p>\n In addition, the team plans to sign veteran guard Cam Payne<\/a> for the remainder of the season, according to sources.<\/p>\n Walker earned a rotation role after maxing out the games allowed on his two-way deal. He is averaging 3.7 points and 3.1 rebounds in 12.1 minutes while shooting 40.3%.<\/p>\n Payne spent the second half of the 2023-24 season with the 76ers before signing with the New York Knicks<\/a> for 2024-25. He then signed with the Indiana Pacers<\/a> in October but was waived after playing for them in the preseason.<\/p>\n Most recently, Payne had been playing for Partizan Belgrade in Serbia.<\/p>\n For his career, Payne has averaged 7.8 points, 2.0 rebounds and 3.2 assists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb 16, 2026, 06:31 PM ET The Philadelphia 76ers intend to sign two-way forward Jabari Walker to a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-479570","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\/479570","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=479570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}