{"id":473190,"date":"2026-10-22T08:34:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T08:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/473190\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T08:34:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T08:34:27","slug":"dallas-mavericks-sign-former-first-round-pick-to-a-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/473190\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Mavericks sign former first-round pick to a deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guard Walter Clayton Jr. has agreed on a two-way NBA deal with the Dallas Mavericks.<\/p>\n<p>The Dallas Mavericks have signed Walter Clayton Jr. to a two-way deal, per Shams Charania of ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/a\/status\/2113012498077209066\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">  Mavs, Walter Clayton Jr. land a two-way deal <\/p>\n<p>The Dallas Mavericks have officially secured Walter Clayton Jr. after recent reports suggested <a href=\"https:\/\/basketnews.com\/news-257743-mavericks-to-sign-former-first-round-pick-to-bolster-backcourt.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">they were the frontrunner<\/a> in signing the 23-year-old guard.<\/p>\n<p>Clayton Jr. was selected 18th overall in the first round of the 2025 NBA Draft by the Washington Wizards before his rights were traded to the Utah Jazz.<\/p>\n<p>He averaged 7.8 points, 4.0 assists, and 2.0 rebounds per game across 69 appearances during his rookie season split between the Utah Jazz and Memphis Grizzlies.<\/p>\n<p>The Grizzlies waived Clayton Jr. on Monday as part of the team&#8217;s plans to trim their roster to the regular-season limit of 15 players on standard contracts.<\/p>\n<p>The Mavericks will open their 2026-27 season this Wednesday against the Houston Rockets.<\/p>\n<p>                                                    <a href=\"https:\/\/basketnews.com\/plus?utm_source=basketnews_com&amp;utm_medium=bn_plus&amp;utm_id=UA-259273-31&amp;utm_campaign=banners_free_content_for_not_members_bottom_6\" class=\"banners_paid_content_info_block_white banners-paid-content-info-block-white\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>                                                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"bn-plus-img img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792658067_551_bn-plus.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                            Thank you for reading us! Help us even more.<\/p>\n<p>                                                            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                If you like our content, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=basketnews.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a> and add us as your preferred source. It helps us a lot, and we are committed to delivering you the very latest basketball news.<\/p>\n<p>                                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Guard Walter Clayton Jr. has agreed on a two-way NBA deal with the Dallas Mavericks. The Dallas Mavericks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":["post-473190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}