{"id":695204,"date":"2026-04-03T03:34:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T03:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/695204\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T03:34:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T03:34:17","slug":"grizzlies-to-sign-dariq-whitehead-toby-okani-to-10-day-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/695204\/","title":{"rendered":"Grizzlies To Sign Dariq Whitehead, Toby Okani To 10-Day Deals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Grizzlies intend to sign former first-round pick <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/w\/whiteda01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-04-02_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dariq Whitehead<\/a> to a 10-day contract, agent James Dunleavy tells Shams Charania of ESPN (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/2039899607417720930\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter link<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Memphis also plans to sign free agent forward <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/gleague\/players\/o\/okanito01d.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Toby Okani<\/a>, agents BJ Bass and Cam Brennick tell Michael Scotto of HoopsHype (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MikeAScotto\/status\/2039901703261053416\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter link<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Whitehead and Okani are almost certainly signing hardship contracts for the injury-ravaged Grizzlies. They\u2019ll essentially be replacing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/j\/jarrede01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-04-02_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DeJon Jarreau<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/b\/burtoty01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-04-02_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tyler Burton<\/a>, whose second 10-day deals with Memphis <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2026\/04\/checking-in-on-playoff-picture-expired-10-day-contracts.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">expired<\/a> on Wednesday night. Players can only sign two 10-day pacts with the same team in a given season, which is why Jarreau and Burton weren\u2019t brought back a third time.<\/p>\n<p>A top high school recruit who played one year of college basketball at Duke, Whitehead\u2019s career has been derailed by a series of injuries. He only played 22 for the Nets over his first two NBA seasons, and he was waived by Brooklyn in October despite having a guaranteed contract in 2025\/26.<\/p>\n<p>Still just 21 years old, Whitehead has spent the 2025\/26 campaign in the G League after signing an Exhibit 10 deal with the Thunder a few days after he was cut by the Nets. In 28 combined appearances (23.6 minutes per contest) for the Oklahoma City Blue this season, Whitehead has averaged 11.6 points, 2.8 rebounds and 1.9 assists, with a subpar shooting line of .368\/.298\/.690.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More to come\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Grizzlies intend to sign former first-round pick Dariq Whitehead to a 10-day contract, agent James Dunleavy tells&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3795],"tags":[7,4613,294,293,177,4070,6,87560],"class_list":["post-695204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-memphis-grizzlies","tag-basketball","tag-dariq-whitehead","tag-grizzlies","tag-memphis","tag-memphis-grizzlies","tag-memphisgrizzlies","tag-nba","tag-toby-okani"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116338679234390825","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695204","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=695204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}