The Portland Trail Blazers are signing guard John Tonje on a two-way NBA contract, George Roussakis and Mark Bartelstein of @PrioritySports tell ESPN. Tonje appeared in six games for the Celtics last season as a rookie.<\/p>\n
Tonje, 25, was selected by the Utah Jazz with the No. 53 pick in the 2025 NBA Draft and signed by the Jazz to a two-way deal later that summer. The 6-foot-4 guard appeared in 32 NBA G League games with the Salt Lake City Stars before the Jazz traded him to the Boston Celtics in a February deal for forward Chris Boucher, a future second-round pick, and cash considerations. To close out his rookie season, Tonje played 11 G League games with the Maine Celtics and six games with the Boston Celtics.<\/p>\n
Across his G League regular-season appearances with Salt Lake City and Maine, Tonje averaged 18.1 points, 4.6 rebounds, 1.7 assists, and 31.3 minutes per game while shooting 44% from the field and 35.4% from behind the 3-point line (on 6.4 attempts per game). During his extremely limited NBA burn with the Celtics, Tonje averaged 2.5 points and 7 minutes per game.<\/p>\n
Before entering the NBA, Tonje played five seasons of college basketball at Colorado State (2019-2023), Missouri (2023-24) and Wisconsin (2024-25).<\/p>\n
The signing of Tonje means the Blazers have filled their three available two-way spots ahead of the 2026-27 regular season. Tonje joins guard Chris Youngblood and forward Jayson Kent as Portland\u2019s other two-way players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Portland Trail Blazers are signing guard John Tonje on a two-way NBA contract, George Roussakis and Mark…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":782867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[105282,76835,355,99],"class_list":["post-782866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-blazers-free-agency","tag-blazers-news","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782866","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=782866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}