{"id":129303,"date":"2025-06-27T16:20:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T16:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/129303\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T16:20:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T16:20:10","slug":"thunder-to-sign-payton-sandfort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/129303\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder To Sign Payton Sandfort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The defending champion Thunder have agreed to a deal with former Iowa standout <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cbb\/players\/payton-sandfort-1.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-27_cbb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Payton Sandfort<\/a>, reports Jonathan Givony of ESPN (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DraftExpress\/status\/1938439140820820035\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter link<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>While Givony doesn\u2019t specify the terms of the agreement, it will likely be a non-guaranteed Exhibit 10 contract. An Exhibit 10 deal would put Sandfort on track to either become an affiliate player for the Oklahoma City Blue, the Thunder\u2019s G League team, or to be converted to a two-way deal before the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>Sandfort, who spent his entire four-year college career with the Hawkeyes, gradually emerged as a featured player for the team, becoming a full-time starter as a junior after being named the Big Ten\u2019s Sixth Man of the Year as a sophomore.<\/p>\n<p>In his senior year in 2024\/25, Sandfort started all 33 games he played, averaging 16.7 points, 6.0 rebounds, and 2.9 assists in 31.9 minutes per contest, with a .407\/.340\/.891 shooting line. That three-point percentage was his worst single-season mark \u2014 he was at 36.5% in his first three college seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Sandfort is the first undrafted free agent deal reported for the Thunder, who selected <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/s\/sorbeth01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-27_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Thomas Sorber<\/a> in the first round of the 2025 draft and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cbb\/players\/brooks-barnhizer-1.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-27_cbb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Brooks Barnhizer<\/a> in the second.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The defending champion Thunder have agreed to a deal with former Iowa standout Payton Sandfort, reports Jonathan Givony&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,5672],"class_list":{"0":"post-129303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-payton-sandfort"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114756244205336994","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129303","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=129303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}