{"id":635634,"date":"2026-03-03T01:52:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T01:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/635634\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T01:52:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T01:52:19","slug":"portland-trail-blazers-waive-javonte-cooke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/635634\/","title":{"rendered":"Portland Trail Blazers Waive Javonte Cooke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Portland Trail Blazers are waiving two-way contract guard Javonte Cooke, a league source told Blazer\u2019s Edge on Monday. The decision coincides with the Blazers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blazersedge.com\/trail-blazers-news\/109745\/portland-trail-blazers-sign-chris-youngblood-nba-two-way-contract-news-oklahoma-city-thunder\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">agreeing to sign guard Chris Youngblood to a two-way deal<\/a> earlier in the day, a move reported by The Oregonian and other outlets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">HoopsHype\u2019s Michael Scotto first reported the news about Cooke.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Cooke, 26, signed a two-way contract with the Blazers just before the start of the regular season in October. The 6-foot-6 guard played sparingly for the Blazers, averaging just 1.2 points and 4.9 minutes per game over 19 appearances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Cooke received much more run with Portland\u2019s G League affiliate, the Rip City Remix. In seven regular-season appearances with the club, he averaged 23 points, 6.1 rebounds, 2.6 assists and 1.6 steals per game while shooting 43.9% from the field and 35.4% on 3-pointers. Cooke also appeared in eight games for the Remix during the G League Tip-Off Tournament, averaging 22 points, 5.4 rebounds, and 3.8 assists per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Cooke played collegiately at Winston-Salem State and Mars Hill University before going undrafted. He began his professional career with the G League\u2019s Iowa Wolves in 2022, playing two seasons with the Wolves and then spending the 2024-25 season with the Oklahoma City Blue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Blazers\u2019 decision to waive Cooke and sign Youngblood means Portland has one two-way spot still available. Guard Caleb Love occupies the other two-way spot, but he has just five games left on the active roster before he hits the 50-game NBA limit. Blazers forward Sidy Cissoko, who began the season on a two-way deal, had his deal converted to a standard NBA contract in February. With two two-way guys and 15 players on standard contracts, Portland\u2019s roster now features 17 players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Portland Trail Blazers are waiving two-way contract guard Javonte Cooke, a league source told Blazer\u2019s Edge on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3784],"tags":[7,601,37660,6,687,471,3967,1617],"class_list":{"0":"post-635634","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-portland-trail-blazers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-blazers","10":"tag-blazers-news","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-portland","13":"tag-portland-trail-blazers","14":"tag-portlandtrailblazers","15":"tag-trail-blazers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116162746456910254","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635634","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=635634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}