{"id":578134,"date":"2026-04-11T15:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T15:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/578134\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T15:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T15:36:11","slug":"utah-jazz-sign-record-breaking-defender-to-two-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/578134\/","title":{"rendered":"Utah Jazz sign record-breaking defender to two-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Utah Jazz are signing guard Hayden Gray to a two-year contract out of the NBA G League&#8217;s Maine Celtics.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/basketnews.com\/teams\/670-utah-jazz.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Utah Jazz<\/a> are set to give an NBA opportunity to an undrafted rookie ahead of the final game of the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/2042968119057031218\" rel=\"nofollow\">Shams Charania of ESPN<\/a>, the Jazz are signing guard Hayden Gray to a two-year contract out of the NBA G League\u2019s Maine Celtics.<\/p>\n<p>This season with the Maine Celtics, Gray averaged 9.9 points, 2.8 rebounds, 5.8 assists, and 2.1 steals per game.<\/p>\n<p>Gray has emerged as one of the top defenders in the G League this season, setting a Maine Celtics single-season record with 99 total steals, surpassing Kadeem Allen\u2019s previous mark of 76 steals, set during the 2017\u201318 season.<\/p>\n<p>                                                    <a href=\"https:\/\/basketnews.com\/plus?utm_source=basketnews_com&amp;utm_medium=bn_plus&amp;utm_id=UA-259273-31&amp;utm_campaign=banners_free_content_for_not_members_bottom_5\" class=\"banners_paid_content_info_block_white banners-paid-content-info-block-white\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>                                                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"bn-plus-img img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/bn-plus.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                            Like what we are doing? You can express your gratitude here.<\/p>\n<p>                                                            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                If you like our content, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=basketnews.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a> and add us as your preferred source. It helps us a lot, and we are committed to delivering you the very latest basketball news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Utah Jazz are signing guard Hayden Gray to a two-year contract out of the NBA G League&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-578134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578134","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=578134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}