{"id":637787,"date":"2026-03-04T01:09:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T01:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/637787\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T01:09:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T01:09:24","slug":"trail-blazers-jayson-kent-finalize-two-way-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/637787\/","title":{"rendered":"Trail Blazers, Jayson Kent Finalize Two-Way Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>3:35 pm: Kent\u2019s two-way deal with the Blazers is official, the team <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/blazers\/news\/trail-blazers-sign-jayson-kent-and-chris-youngblood-to-two-way-contracts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">confirmed in a press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>2:30 pm: The Trail Blazers intend to sign forward <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cbb\/players\/jayson-kent-1.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jayson Kent<\/a> to a two-way contract, agent Rob Anshila tells Michael Scotto of HoopsHype (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MikeAScotto\/status\/2028925593882943789\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter link<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>It will be the first NBA contract of any kind for Kent, who went undrafted out of Texas last June as a fifth-year senior and then caught on with the Rip City Remix, Portland\u2019s G League affiliate, via local tryout last fall.<\/p>\n<p>After transferring from Indiana State to Texas for his final college season, Kent didn\u2019t play a significant role for the Longhorns in 2024\/25, averaging 5.6 points and 3.3 rebounds in 17.2 minutes per contest, primarily off the bench. However, the 6\u20198\u2033 forward has emerged as a reliable three-and-D contributor in the G League this season, putting up 11.9 PPG and 4.1 RPG on .483\/.393\/.921 shooting in 38 outings (26.4 MPG) for the Remix.<\/p>\n<p>The Blazers are in the process of making a series of changes to their two-way contract slots. After <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2026\/02\/trail-blazers-sidy-cissoko-agree-to-two-year-deal.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">promoting<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/c\/cissosi01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-03-03_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sidy Cissoko<\/a> to the standard roster last month, Portland also <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2026\/03\/trail-blazers-to-waive-javonte-cooke.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">waived<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/c\/cookeja01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-03-03_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Javonte Cooke<\/a>, opening up a pair of two-way spots alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/l\/loveca01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-03-03_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Caleb Love<\/a>. The team <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2026\/03\/chris-youngblood-to-sign-two-way-contract-with-trail-blazers.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">signed<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/y\/youngch01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-03-03_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chris Youngblood<\/a> to fill one of those openings, and Kent will now fill the other.<\/p>\n<p>Love is nearing his 50-game limit as a two-way player, but it remains to be seen if he\u2019ll join Cissoko in being promoted to the 15-man roster, which is currently full.<\/p>\n<p>As for Kent, assuming his deal gets finalized on Tuesday, he\u2019ll be eligible to be active <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2025\/11\/active-game-limits-for-two-way-players-in-2025-26.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">for up to 12 games<\/a> for Portland between now and the end of the regular season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"3:35 pm: Kent\u2019s two-way deal with the Blazers is official, the team confirmed in a press release. 2:30&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3784],"tags":[7,601,83223,6,687,471,3967,1617],"class_list":{"0":"post-637787","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-jayson-kent","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\/116168239654782252","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637787","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=637787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}