{"id":901349,"date":"2026-10-31T18:51:39","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T18:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/901349\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T18:51:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T18:51:39","slug":"report-thunder-no-longer-signing-ochai-agbaji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/901349\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Thunder no longer signing Ochai Agbaji"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Thunder have decided not to sign the free-agent forward a day after reportedly agreeing to a contract with him, ESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/2116557852483678648?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">reported<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Agbaji was set to take the Thunder&#8217;s final roster spot, but after the Thunder found out Chet Holmgren will miss eight to 10 weeks, they are now taking a step back to re-evaluate the open spot, per Charania.<\/p>\n<p>OKC is facing an injury crisis with Jalen Williams and Cason Wallace likely out for the season, Holmgren out for over two months and Alex Caruso sidelined for a few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Agbaji, 26, played 40 games for the Toronto Raptors last season before being dealt alongside a second-round pick to the Brooklyn Nets in February, where he played 20 more games.<\/p>\n<p>Across those 62 contests, the 2022 first-round pick averaged 5.1 points and 2.3 rebounds per game while shooting 26.6 per cent from three-point range \u2014\u00a0a steep drop from the prior season when he connected on 39.9 per cent of three-point attempts over 64 games for the Raptors.<\/p>\n<p>Agbaji spent training camp with the New York Knicks but did not make the cut for the opening-day roster.<\/p>\n<p>Oklahoma City holds a 4-1 record in the early going despite the injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Thunder have decided not to sign the free-agent forward a day after reportedly agreeing to a contract&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":901350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-901349","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\/901349","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=901349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/901350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}