{"id":629817,"date":"2026-02-28T06:39:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T06:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/629817\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T06:39:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T06:39:29","slug":"pacers-jalen-slawson-agree-to-two-way-contract-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/629817\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacers, Jalen Slawson Agree To Two-Way Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pacers plan to sign free agent forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/s\/slawsja01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-02-27_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jalen Slawson<\/a> to the two-way contract spot previously held by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/j\/jacksqu01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-02-27_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Quenton Jackson<\/a>, a league source tells Tony Forbes of Forbes and Circle City Spin (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TonyREast\/status\/2027534429204148673\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter link<\/a>). Jackson is being converted to a three-year standard deal.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-466156\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Jalen-Slawson-vert-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\"  \/>The 54th overall pick in the 2023 draft after starring in college at Furman University, Slawson spent his rookie NBA season on a two-way deal with the Kings. He only appeared in 12 games for Sacramento in 2023\/24, and has been plying his trade in the G League the last two years, suiting up for the Osceola Magic in \u201924\/25 and the Noblesville Boom \u2014 Indiana\u2019s affiliate team \u2014 in \u201925\/26.<\/p>\n<p>Slawson, who signed Exhibit 10 deals with the Magic and Pacers the past two falls before being waived, is having a strong season for the Boom. In <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/stats.gleague.nba.com\/player\/1641771\/?Season=2025-26&amp;SeasonType=Combined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">35 games<\/a> in \u201925\/26, the 6\u20197\u2033 wing is averaging 18.8 points, 7.2 rebounds, 5.3 assists, 2.1 blocks and 1.3 blocks in 34.2 minutes per contest, with a shooting line of .486\/.348\/.775.<\/p>\n<p>Since he has been out of the league since \u201923\/24, this will technically be Slawson\u2019s second year in the NBA. It wouldn\u2019t be surprising if his contract covers two years, as has often been the case with recent two-way agreements.<\/p>\n<p>In late December, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2026\/01\/g-leaguers-making-cases-for-nba-promotions.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Keith Smith of Spotrac<\/a> referred to Slawson as \u201cthe best all-around player\u201d to that point in the NBAGL season. That was at the conclusion of the Tip-Off Tournament (Slawson had played 10 games at that point) and prior to the regular season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pacers plan to sign free agent forward Jalen Slawson to the two-way contract spot previously held by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3774],"tags":[7,113,126,3866,29326,6,114],"class_list":{"0":"post-629817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indiana-pacers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-indiana","10":"tag-indiana-pacers","11":"tag-indianapacers","12":"tag-jalen-slawson","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-pacers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116146888672000093","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629817","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=629817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}