{"id":40402,"date":"2025-07-27T05:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T05:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/40402\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T05:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T05:27:08","slug":"jd-davison-to-sign-two-way-contract-with-rockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/40402\/","title":{"rendered":"JD Davison To Sign Two-Way Contract With Rockets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>9:53pm: Davison will receive a two-way contract, according to Keith Smith of Spotrac (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KeithSmithNBA\/status\/1949300533593780480\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter link<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>8:33pm:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/d\/davisjd01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-24_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">JD Davison<\/a>, who was <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2025\/07\/celtics-release-jd-davison.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">waived<\/a> by the Celtics on Thursday, has agreed to a contract with the Rockets, agent Corey Marcum of EZ Sports Group tells NBA insider Chris Haynes (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ChrisBHaynes\/status\/1949267591005983131\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter link<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-426027 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/JD-Davison-Celtics-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\"  \/>Houston doesn\u2019t have enough room under its first-apron\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2025\/07\/nba-teams-with-hard-caps-for-2025-26.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">hard cap<\/a> to offer a standard contract, so Davison could receive a non-guaranteed <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2025\/07\/hoops-rumors-glossary-exhibit-10-contract-4.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Exhibit 10 deal<\/a>. As a three-year veteran, he is still eligible for a two-way contract, so he\u2019ll have a chance to compete in training camp for one of the Rockets\u2019 openings.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old combo guard got into a combined 36 games during his three seasons in Boston after being selected with the 53rd pick in the 2022 draft. He played on two-way contracts the entire time before being converted to a standard deal on the final day of last season.<\/p>\n<p>The Celtics <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2025\/06\/celtics-exercising-team-option-on-jd-davison.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">exercised<\/a> their 2025\/26 team option on Davison in late June, but his $2.27MM salary for next season was non-guaranteed. He wound up being a casualty of Boston\u2019s cost-cutting mission in an effort to move below the second apron.<\/p>\n<p>Davison earned <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2025\/04\/celtics-jd-davison-named-g-league-mvp.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">G League MVP honors<\/a> with the Maine Celtics last season. In 45 total games, he averaged 25.6 points, 7.7 assists, 5.1 rebounds and 1.4 steals in 34.6 minutes per night with .482\/.332\/.762 shooting numbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"9:53pm: Davison will receive a two-way contract, according to Keith Smith of Spotrac (Twitter link). 8:33pm:\u00a0JD Davison, who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[29172,385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-40402","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-jd-davison","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40402","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=40402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}