{"id":48376,"date":"2025-07-30T20:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T20:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/48376\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T20:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T20:32:08","slug":"daeqwon-plowden-signs-two-way-deal-with-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/48376\/","title":{"rendered":"Daeqwon Plowden Signs Two-Way Deal With Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2:55pm:\u00a0Plowden\u2019s two-way deal with Sacramento is official, per the transactions log at NBA.com.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-441436\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Daeqwon-Plowden-vert-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\"  \/>2:06pm: Free agent wing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/p\/plowdda01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-30_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Daeqwon Plowden<\/a> has agreed to sign a two-way contract with the Kings, agent Drew Kelso tells Michael Scotto of HoopsHype (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MikeAScotto\/status\/1950630801147879684\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter link<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Plowden is a Philadelphia native who spent five college seasons at Bowling Green prior to going undrafted in 2022. The 26-year-old played for the affiliate clubs of the Pelicans and Magic during the 2022\/23 and \u201923\/24 campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>Last July, Plowden signed a two-way contract with the Warriors. While he drew <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2024\/07\/pacific-notes-plowden-bronny-stotts-stackhouse-ishbia.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">strong reviews<\/a> for his play in 2024 Summer League, Golden State wound up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2024\/09\/warriors-waive-daeqwon-plowden.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">waiving<\/a> him last September to make space on the roster for 2024 second-round pick <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/p\/postqu01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-12-27_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Quinten Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 6\u20196\u2033 guard\/forward caught on with the Hawks organization, signing an Exhibit 10 deal before being waived last October and playing for their G League affiliate, the College Park Skyhawks. He <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2024\/12\/hawks-to-sign-daeqwon-plowden-to-two-way-contract.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">signed<\/a> a two-year, two-way contract with Atlanta in December and was <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2025\/07\/seven-team-kevin-durant-trade-officially-finalized.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">traded<\/a> to \u2014 and subsequently <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2025\/07\/suns-waive-daeqwan-plowden.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">released<\/a> by \u2014 Phoenix earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Plowden made his NBA debut for the Hawks on January 15, recording 19 points and four rebounds while making seven of his eight field goal attempts in 25 minutes. He made four garbage-time appearances over the following four months prior to the season finale on April 13, when he notched 17 points and four rebounds on 7-of-12 shooting in 31 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Plowden, who <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2025\/01\/nba-g-league-announces-participants-for-2025-up-next-event.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">participated<\/a> in the NBAGL\u2019s Up Next event at All-Star weekend in February, recently played for the Kings\u2019 Summer League team in Las Vegas, averaging 7.3 PPG and 2.7 RPG in 14.3 MPG across six contests. He shot 37.5% from deep and was impressive on defense, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MattGeorgeSAC\/status\/1950634351483662570\" rel=\"nofollow\">tweets<\/a> Matt George of ABC 10 Sacramento.<\/p>\n<p>In 40 games with College Park last season, Plowden averaged 15.0 PPG, 4.3 RPG, 1.7 APG and 1.1 SPG (31.7 MPG). He posted a shooting line of .404\/.327\/.877.<\/p>\n<p>As <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2025\/07\/2025-26-nba-two-way-contract-tracker.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">our tracker<\/a> shows, Plowden will fill Sacramento\u2019s third and final two-way spot, joining <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/c\/cardwdy01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-30_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dylan Cardwell<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/s\/steveis01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-30_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Isaiah Stevens<\/a> as players on two-way deals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2:55pm:\u00a0Plowden\u2019s two-way deal with Sacramento is official, per the transactions log at NBA.com. 2:06pm: Free agent wing Daeqwon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[37666,385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-48376","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-daeqwon-plowden","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48376","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=48376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}