{"id":372527,"date":"2025-12-27T06:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T06:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/372527\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T06:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T06:35:08","slug":"nets-sign-chaney-johnson-to-two-way-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/372527\/","title":{"rendered":"Nets Sign Chaney Johnson To Two-Way Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Nets have signed free agent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/j\/johnsch06.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-26_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chaney Johnson<\/a> to a two-way contract, according to Brian Lewis of The New York Post (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NYPost_Lewis\/status\/2004712025709330792\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter link<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>A 6\u20197\u2033 small forward, Johnson was a key reserve for an Auburn team that reached the Final Four last season, averaging 9.1 PPG, 4.9 RPG and 0.9 BPG in 38 games (23.5 MPG) as a senior in 2024\/25. He went undrafted in June and spent training camp and part of the preseason with the Cavaliers prior to being released from his Exhibit 10 deal.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson, 23, has been playing in the G League with the Cleveland Charge to open the 2025\/26 campaign. Through 16 games (25.5 MPG) with the Cavs\u2019 affiliate team, the Alabama native has <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/stats.gleague.nba.com\/player\/1643052\/?Season=2025-26&amp;SeasonType=Combined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">averaged<\/a> 12.8 PPG, 5.4 RPG, 1.9 APG, 1.4 SPG and 1.1 BPG on .604\/.400\/.731 shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Brooklyn had the only two-way opening in the NBA, so no corresponding move was necessary to add Johnson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Nets have signed free agent Chaney Johnson to a two-way contract, according to Brian Lewis of The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[182620,385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-372527","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-chaney-johnson","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372527","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=372527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}