{"id":235294,"date":"2026-07-04T08:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T08:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/235294\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T08:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T08:05:10","slug":"caleb-love-signing-2-way-deal-with-philadelphia-76ers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/235294\/","title":{"rendered":"Caleb Love Signing 2-Way Deal With Philadelphia 76ers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Caleb Love Era has officially come to an end in Rip City. The 6-foot-3 guard has agreed to sign a two-way deal with the Philadelphia 76ers, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/2073087945536307688?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">according to ESPN\u2019s Shams Charania<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Blazers had signed Love to a two-way deal in the direct aftermath of last summer\u2019s NBA draft, and he played a much bigger role on the roster than expected in his rookie season. After numerous injuries to Portland\u2019s other guard thrust Love into the rotation in mid-November, he appeared in 49 of his available 5o NBA games on his two-way contract. That included a stretch where he appeared in 40 straight games, as well as a few scoring outbursts in Portland wins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Throughout the season, Love averaged 10.4 points, 2.5 assists, 2.3 rebounds and 20.7 minutes per game, while shooting 31.8% from behind the 3-point line. After struggling with his shot early, he found his groove in January, putting up 14.5 points per game and a 34.5% mark from long distance, while also breaking the 20-point threshold three different times. Love\u2019s hot stretch coincided with one of the Blazers\u2019 best stretches of the season, as the team ripped off six straight wins in early January to get their playoff positioning on more stable ground.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Love\u2019s impact and badly needed scoring caused speculation that the Blazers may convert his two-way deal to a standard contract. However, Portland\u2019s injured guards \u2014 Scoot Henderson, Blake Wesley, Matissse Thybulle and Jrue Holiday \u2014 all eventually returned, and Love was back out of the rotation in February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Love, who will turn 25 in October, is joining a 76ers team that just pulled off a major trade to acquire All-Star Jaylen Brown. The 76ers have also been scooping up former Blazers this week. Anfernee Simons and Rayan Rupert have also agreed to deals to join the franchise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Caleb Love Era has officially come to an end in Rip City. The 6-foot-3 guard has agreed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[101489,83161,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-235294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-blazers-news","tag-nba-news","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}