{"id":189858,"date":"2026-02-23T10:50:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T10:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/189858\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T10:50:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T10:50:25","slug":"kings-sign-ex-warrior-patrick-baldwin-jr-to-two-way-contract-nbc-sports-bay-area-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/189858\/","title":{"rendered":"Kings sign ex-Warrior Patrick Baldwin Jr. to two-way contract \u2013 NBC Sports Bay Area &#038; California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kings are giving a pair of youngsters a chance to prove themselves after losing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/s\/sabondo01.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Domantas Sabonis<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/l\/lavinza01.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zach LaVine<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/h\/huntede01.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">De\u2019Andre Hunter<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com\/nba\/sacramento-kings\/deandre-hunter-eye-injury-surgery\/1918807\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">season-ending surgeries<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Amid a frustrating 16-game losing streak, Sacramento announced Sunday that it has signed forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/b\/baldwpa01.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Patrick Baldwin Jr.<\/a> to a two-way contract. ESPN\u2019s Shams Charania also reported, citing sources, that the Kings are signing guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/h\/hayeski01.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Killian Hayes<\/a> to a 10-day contract.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Sacramento Kings are signing former No. 7 overall pick Killian Hayes to a 10-day contract, sources tell ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/2025656140030152925?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 22, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Baldwin, 23, has appeared in 96 games since the Warriors selected him with the No. 28 overall pick in the 2022 NBA Draft. The 7-footer has career averages of 3.7 points, 2.0 rebounds and 8.0 minutes and has played three games during the 2025-26 NBA season &#8212; two with the Los Angeles Clippers and one with the Washington Wizards.<\/p>\n<p>In 18 appearances this season with the G League&#8217;s San Diego Clippers, Baldwin averaged 21.2 points, 8.1 rebounds, 3.4 assists and 1.2 steals.<\/p>\n<p>Hayes, 24, also has struggled to find his footing in the league despite being the Detroit Pistons\u2019 choice with the No. 7 overall pick in the 2020 NBA Draft. The 6-foot-4 guard has career averages of 8.1 points, 5.2 assists, 2.9 rebounds and 26.1 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Hayes played 28 games with the G League&#8217;s Cleveland Charge this season and averaged 23.1 points, 8.3 assists, 3.9 rebounds and 1.7 steals.<\/p>\n<p>Both Baldwin and Hayes are former first-round draft picks looking for an opportunity to compete at the highest level.<\/p>\n<p>Considering <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com\/nba\/sacramento-kings\/domantas-sabonis-knee-injury-update\/1918134\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the injury-riddled Kings<\/a> have a 12-46 record <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com\/nba\/sacramento-kings\/zach-lavine-season-ending-surgery\/1916600\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">through 58 games<\/a>, giving the two journeyman a shot can\u2019t hurt.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/deuce-mo-a-sacramento-kings-nba-podcast\/id1105665515\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Download and follow The Deuce &amp; Mo Podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Kings are giving a pair of youngsters a chance to prove themselves after losing Domantas Sabonis, Zach&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[88889,88912,121,123,122],"class_list":{"0":"post-189858","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-killian-hayes","9":"tag-patrick-baldwin-jr","10":"tag-sacramento","11":"tag-sacramento-headlines","12":"tag-sacramento-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}