{"id":134258,"date":"2025-06-29T14:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T14:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/134258\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T14:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T14:39:09","slug":"suns-gillepsie-lakers-koloko-among-two-way-players-receiving-qos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/134258\/","title":{"rendered":"Suns\u2019 Gillepsie, Lakers\u2019 Koloko Among Two-Way Players Receiving QOs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A series of players who finished the 2024\/25 season on two-way contracts have received qualifying offers from their respective teams, making them free agents, according to Keith Smith of Spotrac. Those players are as follows (all links go to Twitter):<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/c\/crawfis01.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Isaiah Crawford<\/a>, Kings (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KeithSmithNBA\/status\/1939314106177069325\" rel=\"nofollow\">link<\/a>)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/g\/gilleco01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-29_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Collin Gillespie<\/a>, Suns\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KeithSmithNBA\/status\/1939312887480369226\" rel=\"nofollow\">link<\/a>)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/i\/ingraha01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-29_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Harrison Ingram<\/a>, Spurs (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KeithSmithNBA\/status\/1939315421569814848\" rel=\"nofollow\">link<\/a>)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/j\/jenkida01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-29_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Daniss Jenkins<\/a>, Pistons (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KeithSmithNBA\/status\/1939315939297603832\" rel=\"nofollow\">link<\/a>)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/j\/jonessp01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-29_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Spencer Jones<\/a>, Nuggets (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KeithSmithNBA\/status\/1939314509904069102\" rel=\"nofollow\">link<\/a>)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/k\/kolokch01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-29_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Christian Koloko<\/a>, Lakers (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KeithSmithNBA\/status\/1939313470891069865\" rel=\"nofollow\">link<\/a>)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/m\/minixri01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-29_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Riley Minix<\/a>, Spurs (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KeithSmithNBA\/status\/1939315421569814848\" rel=\"nofollow\">link<\/a>)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/t\/toppija01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-29_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jacob Toppin<\/a>, Hawks (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KeithSmithNBA\/status\/1939314359856968151\" rel=\"nofollow\">link<\/a>)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/t\/travelu01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-29_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Luke Travers<\/a>, Cavaliers (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KeithSmithNBA\/status\/1939315638809342120\" rel=\"nofollow\">link<\/a>)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/v\/vukcetr01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-29_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tristan Vukcevic<\/a>, Wizards (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KeithSmithNBA\/status\/1939315771357749607\" rel=\"nofollow\">link<\/a>)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/w\/wallake01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-29_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Keaton Wallace<\/a>, Hawks (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KeithSmithNBA\/status\/1939314359856968151\" rel=\"nofollow\">link<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>In each case, the player\u2019s qualifying offer is equivalent to another one-year, two-way deal, with a small portion (approximately $85K) guaranteed.<\/p>\n<p>While a rival team could technically sign any of these players to an offer sheet during free agency, we essentially never see that happen with two-way free agents. Most of them end up either accepting their two-way QOs or agreeing to new standard contracts with their current teams.<\/p>\n<p>Gillespie, who turned 36 on Wednesday, is among the players who made a strong case for a promotion to a standard contract this past season. He averaged 5.9 points, 2.4 assists, and 2.4 rebounds in 14.0 minutes per game for Phoenix across 33 appearances (nine starts) and made 43.3% of his three-point tries.<\/p>\n<p>Koloko (2.4 PPG and 2.5 RPG in 37 games), Vukcevic (9.4 PPG, 3.7 RPG, and .496\/.373\/.776 shooting in 35 games), and Wallace (5.4 PPG and 2.6 APG in 31 games) also played rotation minutes for their respective clubs in 2024\/25.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday is the deadline for teams to make qualifying offers to players who are eligible for restricted free agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A series of players who finished the 2024\/25 season on two-way contracts have received qualifying offers from their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3791],"tags":[7,31,4216,6101,7991,6892,7478,7481,21657,6,2065,472,4045,7992,26517,604,26518],"class_list":{"0":"post-134258","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix-suns","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-christian-koloko","10":"tag-collin-gillespie","11":"tag-daniss-jenkins","12":"tag-harrison-ingram","13":"tag-isaiah-crawford","14":"tag-jacob-toppin","15":"tag-keaton-wallace","16":"tag-luke-travers","17":"tag-nba","18":"tag-phoenix","19":"tag-phoenix-suns","20":"tag-phoenixsuns","21":"tag-riley-minix","22":"tag-spencer-jones","23":"tag-suns","24":"tag-tristan-vukcevic"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114767171828334283","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134258","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=134258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}