{"id":284292,"date":"2025-11-11T00:55:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T00:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/284292\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T00:55:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T00:55:10","slug":"pistons-sign-wendell-moore-jr-to-two-way-deal-waive-colby-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/284292\/","title":{"rendered":"Pistons Sign Wendell Moore Jr. To Two-Way Deal, Waive Colby Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>3:22 pm: The Pistons have officially signed Moore and waived Jones, the team announced today (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Pistons_PR\/status\/1987989590230048947\" rel=\"nofollow\">via Twitter<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-453054\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Wendell-Moore-Jr.-vert-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\"  \/>11:17 am: The Pistons are signing guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/m\/moorewe01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-10_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Wendell Moore Jr.<\/a> to a two-way contract, according to HoopsHype\u2019s Michael Scotto, who reports that the team is\u00a0waiving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/j\/jonesco02.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-10_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Colby Jones<\/a> to open up a roster spot for Moore (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MikeAScotto\/status\/1987923255332590009\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MikeAScotto\/status\/1987924858915713520\" rel=\"nofollow\">links<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Moore has been seeking another NBA opportunity since the Celtics <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2025\/10\/celtics-cut-jalen-bridges-kendall-brown-wendell-moore.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">waived<\/a> him during training camp. Detroit\u2019s coaching staff is quite familiar with Moore \u2014 he spent part of last season with the Pistons organization.<\/p>\n<p>A late first-round selection in 2022, Moore played two seasons with the Timberwolves. The Pistons acquired him in an offseason trade and he appeared in 20 games before he was waived at the trade deadline in February. He then joined the Hornets on a two-way contract about a week later, finishing the season in Charlotte. Boston brought him in this offseason on a training camp deal.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, Moore has seen action in 90 NBA games, averaging 2.3 points in 8.1 minutes per contest. Last season, he played in a combined 36 games and averaged 4.2 PPG, 2.6 RPG, and 1.2 APG in 13.9 MPG.<\/p>\n<p>Jones received seven minutes of garbage time in one game this season. An early second-round pick in 2023, Jones appeared in 30 games off the bench for Sacramento as a rookie, then played a combined 39 games for the Kings and Wizards last season.<\/p>\n<p>Jones was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2025\/06\/wizards-to-acquire-dillon-jones-from-thunder.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">traded<\/a> by Washington to Oklahoma City in June, but the Thunder immediately waived his non-guaranteed $2.22MM contract. The Pistons <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2025\/07\/pistons-signing-colby-jones-to-two-way-contract.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">added<\/a> him on a two-way deal in late July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"3:22 pm: The Pistons have officially signed Moore and waived Jones, the team announced today (via Twitter). 11:17&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[27335,385,99,150175],"class_list":["post-284292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-colby-jones","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-wendell-moore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284292","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=284292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}