{"id":861739,"date":"2026-08-17T21:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T21:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/861739\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T21:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T21:12:08","slug":"raptors-sign-guard-malachi-smith-ahead-of-training-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/861739\/","title":{"rendered":"Raptors sign guard Malachi Smith ahead of training camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Raptors are filling out their roster ahead of training camp. <\/p>\n<p>They signed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/players\/malachi-smith\/d21c7c50-60ce-4de2-b2a2-3a06d3897bcb\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"d21c7c50-60ce-4de2-b2a2-3a06d3897bcb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Malachi Smith<\/a> to an undisclosed contract on Monday, the team announced. <\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old averaged 8.3 points, 3.4 rebounds and 3.3 assists over 15 games with the Brooklyn Nets last season, shooting 43.5 per cent from three-point range. <\/p>\n<p>Smith was signed to consecutive 10-day contracts with the Nets before signing a two-year non-guaranteed standard NBA deal on April 4 to play out the final week of the season. <\/p>\n<p>The undrafted guard had a season-best 19 points to go along with 10 assists and eight rebounds against the Milwaukee Bucks on April 10. <\/p>\n<p>Smith split two G League seasons between the Rip City Remix, Wisconsin Herd and Memphis Hustle between 2023-25, and could be a candidate to join the Raptors affiliate, the Raptors 905, if he doesn&#8217;t make the NBA team out of camp. <\/p>\n<p>The Raptors will conduct training camp in Quebec City ahead of the 2026-27 NBA season, with media day on Sept. 28, before camp begins the following day and runs through Oct. 2.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Raptors are filling out their roster ahead of training camp. They signed Malachi Smith to an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":861740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,82],"class_list":["post-861739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861739","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=861739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/861740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}