Free agent guard Bryce McGowens has signed a two-way contract with the New Orleans Pelicans, ESPN\u2019s Shams Charania reported. McGowens, 22, spent last season on a two-way contract with the Portland Trail Blazers.<\/p>\n
McGowens\u2019 playing time with the Trail Blazers was limited in his lone season with the franchise. The 6-foot-7 guard averaged just 2.5 minutes per game in 13 appearances. However, he was heavily featured as a prolific scorer on the Blazers\u2019 G League affiliate, the Rip City Remix.<\/p>\n
McGowens led the G League in scoring with 29.3 points per game, to go along with 4.1 assists and 3.3 rebounds. The production earned him a place on the All-NBA G League Second Team and a spot on the G League\u2019s Rising Stars team at NBA All-Star Weekend<\/a>. At the event, he hit the game-winning 3-pointer in a semifinal game<\/a> against Blazers teammate Toumani Camara\u2019s team. McGowens\u2019 season ended after he suffered a right rib fracture in the Remix\u2019s loss to the Sioux Falls Skyforce on March 24.<\/p>\n Before joining the Blazers, McGowens spent two seasons with the Charlotte Hornets. The Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a> originally drafted McGowens with the No. 40 pick in the 2022 NBA Draft<\/a>, but moved him to Charlotte in a draft-night deal.<\/p>\n McGowens will be entering his fourth NBA season in New Orleans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Free agent guard Bryce McGowens has signed a two-way contract with the New Orleans Pelicans, ESPN\u2019s Shams Charania…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[4203,14911,4133,4204,424,38009,355,3258,38008,6307,419,7241,99,826,35297,5752,14512],"class_list":["post-48898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-blazer","tag-bryce","tag-contract","tag-edge","tag-front-page","tag-mcgowens","tag-nba","tag-new","tag-orleans","tag-pelicans","tag-s","tag-sign","tag-sports","tag-to","tag-trail-blazers-news","tag-two","tag-way"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48898","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=48898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}