{"id":23257,"date":"2025-07-20T06:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T06:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/23257\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T06:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T06:58:09","slug":"keaton-wallace-returns-on-two-way-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/23257\/","title":{"rendered":"Keaton Wallace returns on two-way contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"enjofe\">The Hawks have made one more transaction towards their (up to) 18-man roster for the 2025-26 season, and this one is a familiar name. Lauren Williams of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution broke the news of Keaton Wallace signing an outstanding qualifying offer for a two-way contract:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Per league source, Keaton Wallace has signed his 2-way option.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lauren L. Williams (@WilliamsLaurenL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WilliamsLaurenL\/status\/1946358497576120465?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 18, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"iMb6XC\">With the injury to Kobe Bufkin last season, Wallace was thrust into a role as, at times, the backup point guard to Trae Young. He appeared in 31 games last season, starting five, including being part of a couple of big wins. <\/p>\n<p id=\"cwYIwk\">His first career start was a game against the Boston Celtics without Young when he played 32 minutes, helping the Hawks knocked off the defending champions in a pivotal NBA Cup group game. In a January game against the Chicago Bulls, Wallace poured in a career-high 27 points when he and Daeqwon Plowden powered the injured Hawks to a road win.<\/p>\n<p id=\"qIWhNT\">In the final regular season game of the season, he recorded a triple-double with 15 assists, one of just eight players to do so last season:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Players to record a 15-assist triple-double this season:<\/p>\n<p>Nikola Jokic<br \/>Giannis Antetokounmpo<br \/>LeBron James<br \/>Cade Cunningham<br \/>Russell Westbrook<br \/>Josh Giddey<br \/>RJ Barrett<\/p>\n<p>and now Keaton Wallace<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Wes (@bloghawk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bloghawk\/status\/1911494567234265357?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 13, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"kVCUZ4\">That game also made him the only player in franchise history to log at least 15 points, 15 assists, 10 rebounds and 5 steals in a single contest.<\/p>\n<p id=\"UK2dCf\">Those box score explosions were, of course, few and far between, as he averaged 5.4 points and 2.6 assist per game in 2024-25. But he\u2019s a player who simply knows his role as an on-ball guard defender and shooter when needed. <\/p>\n<p id=\"MWK23S\">Welcome back, Keaton Wallace!<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hawks have made one more transaction towards their (up to) 18-man roster for the 2025-26 season, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[4133,6403,424,7080,20869,829,385,2105,7079,5943,99,5752,20870,14512],"class_list":["post-23257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-contract","tag-free-agency","tag-front-page","tag-hoops","tag-keaton","tag-latest-news","tag-nhl","tag-on","tag-peachtree","tag-returns","tag-sports","tag-two","tag-wallace","tag-way"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}