{"id":184679,"date":"2025-07-21T03:44:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T03:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/184679\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T03:44:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T03:44:22","slug":"bulls-sign-yuki-kawamura-to-two-way-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/184679\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulls Sign Yuki Kawamura To Two-Way Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>3:52 pm: The Bulls have officially confirmed their two-way deal with Kawamura, announcing in a press release that Young has been waived to open up a two-way spot for the newcomer.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-437943\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Yuki-Kawamura-vert-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\"  \/>3:33 pm: The Bulls will be making a change to one of their two-way contract slots, according to Shams Charania of ESPN (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1946666198747459597\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter link<\/a>), who reports that free agent point guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/k\/kawamyu01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-19_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Yuki Kawamura<\/a> has agreed to a two-way deal with the team.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago doesn\u2019t currently have a two-way opening, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/y\/youngja05.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-19_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jahmir Young<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/m\/milleem01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-19_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Emanuel Miller<\/a>, and second-round pick <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/o\/olbrila01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-19_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lachlan Olbrich<\/a> occupying those three roster spots, so one of them will need to be waived, promoted, or traded in order to make room for Kawamura.<\/p>\n<p>Kawamura, 24, arrived stateside in 2024 after playing professionally for several seasons in his home country of Japan. The 5\u20198\u2033 guard signed a two-way contract with Memphis and spent 2024\/25 with the Grizzlies, though his playing time at the NBA level was limited \u2014 he logged just 93 total minutes across 22 appearances.<\/p>\n<p>Kawamura was more of a featured player for the Memphis Hustle in the G League, averaging 31.6 minutes per game across 31 outings. He put up 12.7 points, 8.5 assists, and 3.1 rebounds per contest, with a shooting line of .383\/.365\/.761.<\/p>\n<p>After not receiving a qualifying offer from the Grizzlies, Kawamura became an unrestricted free agent and caught on with the Bulls for Summer League. In five appearances in Las Vegas, he averaged 10.2 points, 6.2 assists, and 2.2 steals per game while making 41.7% of his three-point tries, earning himself a two-way offer.<\/p>\n<p>A two-way deal will allow Kawamura to appear in up to 50 regular season games with the Bulls. If he remains under contract through the league-wide salary guarantee deadline in January, he would earn $636,435, which is 50% of this season\u2019s rookie minimum salary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"3:52 pm: The Bulls have officially confirmed their two-way deal with Kawamura, announcing in a press release that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3771],"tags":[7,920,919,329,3824,10699,6,8032],"class_list":{"0":"post-184679","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-bulls","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-bulls","10":"tag-chicago","11":"tag-chicago-bulls","12":"tag-chicagobulls","13":"tag-jahmir-young","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-yuki-kawamura"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114889166953311823","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184679","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=184679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}