{"id":522078,"date":"2026-01-07T08:01:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T08:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/522078\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T08:01:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T08:01:22","slug":"chicago-bulls-sign-yuki-kawamura-to-two-way-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/522078\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Bulls sign Yuki Kawamura to two-way contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#8217;s Yuki Kawamura, a 24-year-old point guard who played in the Paris Olympics and last season for Memphis, signed an NBA contract with Chicago on Tuesday, the club announced.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulls, who released forward Trentyn Flowers in a related move, completed a two-way deal with Kawamura, who averaged 20.3 points, 7.7 assists and 3.3 rebounds for Japan at the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>In 22 games last season for Memphis, Kawamura averaged 1.6 points in a reserve role.<\/p>\n<p>Kawamura played for Chicago in two pre-season games in 2025, averaging 3.0 points, 4.0 rebounds and 4.0 assists.<\/p>\n<p>Kawamura spent five seasons in the Japanese B. League starting at age 18, averaging 16.7 points, 7.3 assists and 3.0 rebounds and taking the Most Valuable Player award in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulls are 17-19 and rank ninth in the NBA Eastern Conference this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s Yuki Kawamura, a 24-year-old point guard who played in the Paris Olympics and last season for Memphis,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3771],"tags":[7,920,919,329,3824,6,8032],"class_list":{"0":"post-522078","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-nba","14":"tag-yuki-kawamura"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115852770465536084","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522078","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=522078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}