{"id":237366,"date":"2025-10-19T23:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T23:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/237366\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T23:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T23:58:08","slug":"report-blazers-to-sign-cooke-to-two-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/237366\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Blazers to Sign Cooke to Two-Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blazersedge.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Portland Trail Blazers<\/a> will reportedly sign recently-waived guard Javonte Cooke to a two-way contract, <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/highkin.bsky.social\/post\/3m3lbohywrs2j\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to Sean Highkin of the Rose Garden Report<\/a>. Cooke <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blazersedge.com\/trail-blazers-news\/104053\/portland-trail-blazers-waive-javonte-cooke-nba-news-preseason\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was waived two days ago<\/a>, and there was speculation that rejoining the team on a two-way contract would be in the cards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Blazers\u2019 roster would now be full at 18 players, which includes three two-way players: Cooke, Sidy Cissoko, and Caleb Love (the latter two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blazersedge.com\/trail-blazers-analysis\/104007\/sidy-cissoko-and-caleb-love-should-contribute-portland-trail-blazers-this-season\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">were written about by our own Adrian Bernecich yesterday<\/a>). While not likely to play big minutes with the Blazers this year, guard depth early in the season is all the more important given <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blazersedge.com\/trail-blazers-analysis\/103448\/scoot-henderson-injury-news-hamstring-poortland-trail-blazers-roster-holiday-lillard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scoot Henderson\u2019s hamstring injury<\/a> that will keep him out at least a few months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Cooke played three games in the Blazers\u2019 preseason, <a href=\"https:\/\/basketball.realgm.com\/nba\/teams\/Portland-Trail-Blazers\/24\/stats\/2026\/Averages\/All\/points\/All\/desc\/1\/Preseason\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">averaging 3.3 points and 1.7 boards<\/a> in his 7.5 minutes per game. He averaged <a href=\"https:\/\/stats.gleague.nba.com\/player\/1631451\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">16.6 points 5.0 rebounds, and 2.6 assists<\/a> in the NBA G League last year for the Oklahoma City Blue. Cooke went undrafted and started his professional career in 2022 with the G League\u2019s Iowa Wolves.<\/p>\n<p>See More: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blazersedge.com\/trail-blazers-news\" class=\"_153sp3o9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blazers News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Portland Trail Blazers will reportedly sign recently-waived guard Javonte Cooke to a two-way contract, according to Sean&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[76835,385,99],"class_list":["post-237366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-blazers-news","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237366","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=237366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}