{"id":127842,"date":"2025-06-27T03:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T03:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/127842\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T03:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T03:01:09","slug":"new-orleans-pelicans-sign-hunter-dickinson-to-contract-after-2025-nba-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/127842\/","title":{"rendered":"New Orleans Pelicans sign Hunter Dickinson to contract after 2025 NBA Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/college\/kansas-jayhawks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Kansas<\/a> star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/hunter-dickinson-48425\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Hunter Dickinson<\/a> has agreed to an undrafted free agent contract with the New Orleans Pelicans, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1938428754759397769\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">ESPN\u2019s Shams Charania reported<\/a>. It will be a two-way deal.<\/p>\n<p>Dickinson is coming off another monster season at Kansas this year after transferring from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/teams\/michigan-wolverines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Michigan<\/a>. He led the Jayhawks with 17.4 points and 10.0 rebounds per game while also adding 2.1 assists, 1.3 blocks and 1.0 block while shooting 52.6% from the field.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023-24, Dickinson averaged a double-double for the first time in his career, putting up 17.9 points and 10.9 rebounds per game in his first year at Kansas. That came after back-to-back seasons with more than 18 points on average at Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>This story will be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Kansas star Hunter Dickinson has agreed to an undrafted free agent contract with the New Orleans Pelicans,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3796],"tags":[7,13103,6,478,470,4073,4072,675],"class_list":{"0":"post-127842","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-orleans-pelicans","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-hunter-dickinson-20-dematha-catholic","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-new-orleans","12":"tag-new-orleans-pelicans","13":"tag-neworleans","14":"tag-neworleanspelicans","15":"tag-pelicans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114753102555893670","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}