Washington made some training camp moves over the last couple of days. The Washington Wizards have made some personnel moves in the last couple of days.
The Wizards opened two spots on their training camp roster by waiving point guard Kira Lewis and small forward Leaky Black.
The Wizards have reached agreements with free agents Kira Lewis, Jaylen Nowell and Leaky Black per Josh Robbins and Shams Charania. According to both Robbins and Charania, the young players will sign Exhibit 10 contracts with the Wizards and will be given an opportunity to compete in training camp for regular season roster spots.
The Washington Wizards intend to sign point guard Kira Lewis Jr., small forward Leaky Black and shooting guard Jaylen Nowell to Exhibit 10 training camp contracts, per Josh Robbins and Shams Charania of The Athletic.
The Wizards have reached contract agreements with free agents Kira Lewis, Jaylen Nowell and Leaky Black, league sources tell Josh Robbins and Shams Charania of The Athletic.
Fortunately for front offices around the NBA, there's still a string of untapped potential in the free agency market. He's the best free agent at each position aged 25 or under.
The Utah Jazz have officially renounced their free-agent exception rights to guard/forward Talen Horton-Tucker and point guard Kira Lewis Jr., per the RealGM transactions log.
Kira Lewis Jr. is coming off a season where he played for the New Orleans Pelicans, Toronto Raptors and Utah Jazz. The former Alabama star finished the year with averages of 3.2 points and 1.3 assists per contest while shooting 37.0% from the field in 28 games.
It looks like the Utah Jazz are losing out on one of the members of their backcourt from last season. According to NBA insider Kelly Iko of The Athletic, Kira Lewis Jr.
It's been a busy couple of days at Utah Jazz HQ. The day after Utah decided to part ways with Kira Lewis Jr. and Micha Potter, it was announced that the Jazz expect to release veteran center Omer Yurtseven.
The Toronto Raptors continue to stockpile native talent.
NBA insider Adrian Wojnarowski reports Thursday that the Utah Jazz are finalizing a trade that will send center Kelly Olynyk and guard Ochai Agbaji to the Toronto Raptors in exchange for Kira Lewis, Otto Porter, and a 2024 first-round pick.
Ahead of the 2024 NBA Trade Deadline, the Utah Jazz have traded big man Kelly Olynyk and Ochai Agbaji to the Toronto Raptors, per the latest NBA news.
The NBA’s February 8th trade deadline is just a week away and a couple big deals have already been made. OG Anunoby and Pascal Siakam found new basketball zip codes so the Toronto Raptors can fanally jumpstart are rebuild.
Kira Lewis Jr. is coming back up. After a one-game stint with the Raptors 905 this week, the Toronto Raptors have opted to have Lewis rejoin the team ahead of Toronto’s homestand this week, the 905 announced.
On Thursday evening, the Toronto Raptors lost to the Chicago Bulls by a score of 116-110 (at home) in Canada. Kira Lewis Jr., who was recently acquired in a trade with the Indiana Pacers, was active but did not make his debut.
Kira Lewis Jr. is heading to the Raptors 905. The 22-year-old recently acquired point guard is going to begin his Toronto Raptors career in the G League, the team announced Friday.
The Indiana Pacers announced today that they have completed a trade with the New Orleans Pelicans that sends young guard Kira Lewis Jr to the Pacers. Lewis, a 2020 lottery pick, has been with the Pelicans for the last three-plus seasons.
Look out for the Pacers. Already one of the most fun teams in the league, their addition of forward Pascal Siakam makes them downright scary.
One NBA writer is proposing that the New Orleans Pelicans acquire Zach LaVine from the Chicago Bulls in a blockbuster trade. Lee Tran of Fadeaway World proposed that the Pelicans trade CJ McCollum, Dyson Daniels, Kira Lewis and two draft picks in 2024 to the Bulls for LaVine.
The 22-year-old point guard Lewis was the Pelicans’ lottery pick in 2020. But he hasn’t gotten his NBA career off the ground with just 5.8 points and 1.9 assists a game over three seasons with New Orleans.
A DPE allows a team to sign a player without using cap space. If a player is seriously injured, his team can apply for the disabled player exception to replace him.
Last year's 13th overall pick out of the University of Alabama suffered the injury during the Pelicans' game against the Denver Nuggets on Wednesday.
Bledsoe is averaging 13.9 points, 3.8 rebounds and 3.7 assists per game this season. Those are the worst numbers he has posted as a full-time starter.
As a sophomore at Alabama in 2019-20, Lewis averaged a team-high 18.5 PPG to go along with 5.2 APG, 4.8 RPG and 1.8 SPG in 31 games (37.6 MPG).
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