{"id":637649,"date":"2026-03-03T23:40:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T23:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/637649\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T23:40:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T23:40:23","slug":"thunders-payton-sandfort-strikes-deal-with-oklahoma-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/637649\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder&#8217;s Payton Sandfort: Strikes deal with Oklahoma City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1772061739_339_video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/teams\/OKC\/oklahoma-city-thunder\/\" aria-label=\"home team page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"TeamLogo-image\" alt=\"team logo\" src=\"https:\/\/sports.cbsimg.net\/fly\/images\/team-logos\/1628527.svg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                                                <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/players\/26775767\/sandfort\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sandfort<\/a> agreed Monday with the <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/teams\/OKC\/oklahoma-city-thunder\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thunder<\/a> on a two-way contract, Shams Charania of ESPN reports.<\/p>\n<p>One of the top performers this season for the Thunder&#8217;s G League affiliate, the Oklahoma City Blue, Sandfort will now get the chance to make his NBA debut as the regular season winds down. The 23-year-old forward has appeared in 21 games for the Blue, averaging 11.0 points, 5.2 rebounds, 2.5 three-pointers and 2.1 assists in 27.8 minutes per contest.<\/p>\n<p>        More News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sandfort agreed Monday with the Thunder on a two-way contract, Shams Charania of ESPN reports. One of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3783],"tags":[7,2825,6,310,475,179,3966,3965,5672,312],"class_list":{"0":"post-637649","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oklahoma-city-thunder","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-fantasy-basketball","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-oklahoma","12":"tag-oklahoma-city","13":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","14":"tag-oklahomacity","15":"tag-oklahomacitythunder","16":"tag-payton-sandfort","17":"tag-thunder"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116167890766647571","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637649","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=637649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}