The Nets say have signed guard/forward Chaney Johnson to a two-way contract. Johnson spent this season playing in the G League for the Cleveland Charge after going undrafted in the 2025 NBA Draft. Johnson is averaging 12.8 PPG, 5.4 RPG, and 1.9 APG thus far in the G League.
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The Brooklyn Nets have been playing some of their best basketball in the month of December after beginning the season as one of the worst defensive teams in NBA history. Brooklyn has turned their season around thanks to their improvement on the defensive end of the floor and given that the organization is primarily interested in player development, it looks like they’re taking a chance on another young player.
The Nets announced on Friday that they signed guard/forward Chaney Johnson to a Two-Way contract, bringing the numbers of players on the roster to 18. Johnson, 23, went undrafted in the 2025 NBA Draft, but he has spent the 2025-26 season with the Cleveland Charge, the G League afiliate of the Cleveland Cavaliers, one of the teams that Nets head coach Jordi Fernandez has coached during his NBA coaching career.
Johnson, listed at 6-foot-7 and 220 pounds, has averaged 12.8 points, 5.4 rebounds, 1.9 assists, 1.4 steals, and 1.2 blocks per game while shooting 60.4% from the field and 40.0% from three-point land. Johnson has played 16 games in the G League thus far, but he has yet to make his NBA debut as Cleveland did not call him up despite how well he was playing at the G League level.
Now that Johnson has been signed to Brooklyn’s roster, he joins guard Tyson Etienne and forward EJ Liddell as the Two-Way players on the roster. After spending his first three college seasons at Division II Alabama-Huntsville, Johnson spent his junior and senior seasons at Auburn University where he averaged 7.0 points, 4.2 rebounds and 1.1 assists on 54.4 percent shooting from the field in 19.5 minutes per game across 73 games.
With Johnson now being one of Brooklyn’s Two-Way players, he is most likely relegated to Long Island for the time being, similar to what the team has done with Etienne and Liddell. However, if Johnson is able to maintain his current level of play or possibly improve in some area of his game, he could find himself getting some NBA minutes, especially if the Nets are as active at the trade deadline as some expect them to be.