{"id":827408,"date":"2026-08-27T09:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T09:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/827408\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T09:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T09:24:10","slug":"nuggets-sign-bryce-hopkins-to-two-way-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/827408\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuggets Sign Bryce Hopkins To Two-Way Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/h\/hopkibr01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-08-26_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bryce Hopkins<\/a> has signed a two-way contract with the Nuggets, agents Mark Bartelstein and Reggie Brown of Priority Sports tell Michael Scotto of HoopsHype (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MikeAScotto\/status\/2092754532971278637\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter link<\/a>). The deal has been confirmed in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/players\/transactions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NBA.com\u2019s transactions log<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old small forward was selected out of St. John\u2019s with the 49th pick in June after earning second-team All-Big East honors last season. He averaged 13.6 points, 6.2 rebounds, 1.9 assists and 1.1 steals in 37 games in his first full season since suffering an ACL tear in January of 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Hopkins finished his college career with the Red Storm after playing one season at Kentucky and three at Providence.<\/p>\n<p>He turned in a strong performance at the Las Vegas Summer League, averaging 18.0 points and 6.5 rebounds in 25.9 minutes while playing four games.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/s\/simpskj01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-08-26_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KJ Simpson<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/r\/reeseju01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-08-26_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Julian Reese<\/a> hold Denver\u2019s other two-way contracts, though Reese is expected to be waived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bryce Hopkins has signed a two-way contract with the Nuggets, agents Mark Bartelstein and Reggie Brown of Priority&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":827409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[46750,385,99],"class_list":["post-827408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-bryce-hopkins","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827408","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=827408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/827409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}