{"id":795234,"date":"2026-07-31T10:45:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T10:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/795234\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T10:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T10:45:12","slug":"knicks-among-several-teams-with-two-way-openings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/795234\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks Among Several Teams With Two-Way Openings"},"content":{"rendered":"

You can check out our glossary entry<\/a> to learn more about two-way contracts, but in short, two-way deals\u00a0allow NBA teams to carry three extra players in addition to the 15 on their regular season roster. These players generally bounce back and forth between the NBA and G League, but remain under team control and can\u2019t be poached by rival franchises.<\/p>\n

As our two-way contract tracker<\/a> shows, several teams around the NBA currently have at least one two-way opening. Three of those clubs have multiple openings: the defending champion Knicks have all three of their two-way spots available, while the Celtics and Nuggets have two vacancies apiece.<\/p>\n

If we assume that Jamarion Sharpe<\/a> (Clippers), Carson Cooper<\/a> (Grizzlies) and Rafael Castro<\/a> (Bucks) eventually sign their<\/a> reported<\/a> deals<\/a> with their respective clubs, then 12 teams have a total of 16 two-way openings. Aside from the Knicks, Celtics and Nuggets, the other nine clubs each have one vacant two-way spot.<\/p>\n

Here are the other nine teams:<\/p>\n

Brooklyn Nets
\nChicago Bulls
\nGolden State Warriors
\nHouston Rockets
\nMiami Heat
\nNew Orleans Pelicans
\nPhiladelphia 76ers
\nSacramento Kings
\nToronto Raptors<\/p>\n

Some of those 16 spots may be earmarked for unsigned draft picks<\/a>. A total of 10 players selected in the second round of the 2026 draft have yet to sign their first NBA contracts.<\/p>\n

Memphis can\u2019t sign Cooper or No. 32 overall pick Richie Saunders<\/a>, who\u2019s expected to miss a significant portion of 2026\/27 due to a torn ACL, until it makes additional roster moves. The Grizzlies are the only team in the league at the offseason limit of 21 players under contract.<\/p>\n

The Knicks (close to the second tax apron), Celtics (close to the luxury tax line) and Nuggets (over the second apron) may be waiting to fill some of their two-way spots to maintain roster and financial flexibility. Two-way contracts are non-guaranteed and don\u2019t count against the salary cap, but those teams could choose to sign some of their unsigned draftees to standard deals due to their financial situations.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s typically a good amount of two-way movement in the weeks leading up to the regular season, with players initially signed to Exhibit 10 deals competing amongst each other and the players on two-way contracts for those three extra roster spots. Mavericks center Moussa Cisse<\/a>, for example, signed an Exhibit 10 deal with Dallas last year after going undrafted but was promoted to a two-way deal before the 2025\/26 regular season began. The 6\u201911\u201d big man is now on a two-year standard contract with Dallas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You can check out our glossary entry to learn more about two-way contracts, but in short, two-way deals\u00a0allow…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-795234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795234","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=795234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}