{"id":841973,"date":"2026-09-09T17:30:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T17:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/841973\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T17:30:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T17:30:15","slug":"fischers-latest-hawkins-grizzlies-vincent-kings-sabonis-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/841973\/","title":{"rendered":"Fischer’s Latest: Hawkins, Grizzlies, Vincent, Kings, Sabonis, More"},"content":{"rendered":"

After being traded<\/a> from New Orleans to Memphis on Tuesday, former first-round pick Jordan Hawkins<\/a> will likely get \u201ca chance to stick around\u201d and compete for a spot on the Grizzlies\u2019 15-man regular season roster, NBA insider Jake Fischer said during his latest live stream for Bleacher Report (video link<\/a>).<\/p>\n

If the Grizzlies do end up waiving Hawkins, there would be several teams around the league interested in taking a shot on the 24-year-old wing, according to Fischer. It\u2019s unclear whether those clubs would be prepared to award Hawkins a standard contract and a regular season roster spot or if he\u2019d be a target for a two-way deal.<\/p>\n

The Grizzlies are facing a roster crunch this fall, with 19 players on standard contracts for 15 roster spots. Besides Hawkins, Fischer views D\u2019Angelo Russell<\/a>, Kris Murray<\/a>, Walter Clayton Jr.<\/a>, and Micah Peavy<\/a> as the players who are most at risk, noting that forward Olivier-Maxence Prosper<\/a> should be safe.<\/p>\n

Here are a few more items of interest from Fischer\u2019s Bleacher Report stream:<\/p>\n

The Cavaliers and free agent guard Gabe Vincent<\/a> were in contact earlier in the offseason, but he\u2019s no longer in play for the Cavs now that they\u2019re right up against<\/a> their first-apron hard cap, per Fischer. Vincent was also said to be on the Kings\u2019 radar before they signed Ben Simmons<\/a>, though Fischer suggests that the 30-year-old guard wasn\u2019t clamoring to join the rebuilding club. \u201cI was told that Gabe Vincent wasn\u2019t exactly itching to go to Sacramento, but that there was some mutual interest there,\u201d Fischer said.
\nFor what it\u2019s worth, while we\u2019re still waiting on the exact details of Simmons\u2019 new one-year, minimum-salary contract<\/a> with the Kings, Fischer referred to it in passing as a \u201cnon-guaranteed\u201d deal.
\nWhile Fischer still views the Hornets as a potential suitor for Kings center Domantas Sabonis<\/a>, he notes that it could be tricky for Sacramento to make a deal until Sabonis returns to the court and starts to look like his old self after an injury-plagued 2025\/26 season. As Fischer explains, the Kings believe they should receive positive value in any Sabonis trade, whereas possible trade partners are wary of the $94MM he\u2019s owed over the next two years after he played just 19 games last season due to knee problems.
\nWhich players<\/a> could join Victor Wembanyama<\/a> and Amen Thompson<\/a> in signing rookie scale extensions by the October 19 deadline? Fischer identifies Hornets forward Brandon Miller<\/a>, Pistons guard Ausar Thompson<\/a>, Jazz guard Keyonte George<\/a>, and Thunder guard Cason Wallace<\/a> as the players that agents and cap strategists consider most likely to sign long-term deals with their respective teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After being traded from New Orleans to Memphis on Tuesday, former first-round pick Jordan Hawkins will likely get…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":841974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[72976,24002,74193,56260,81779,109037,27128,162354,117437,189615,356019,355,56265,99,120328],"class_list":["post-841973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ausar-thompson","tag-ben-simmons","tag-brandon-miller","tag-cason-wallace","tag-dangelo-russell","tag-domantas-sabonis","tag-gabe-vincent","tag-jordan-hawkins","tag-keyonte-george","tag-kris-murray","tag-micah-peavy","tag-nba","tag-olivier-maxence-prosper","tag-sports","tag-walter-clayton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841973","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=841973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/841974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}