{"id":701771,"date":"2026-04-06T17:58:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T17:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/701771\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T17:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T17:58:13","slug":"toronto-raptors-sign-former-tennessee-basketball-guard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/701771\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Raptors sign former Tennessee basketball guard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/tyreke-key-153763\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyreke Key<\/a> is getting his shot in the NBA.<\/p>\n<p>The former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/teams\/tennessee-volunteers\/category\/basketball\/news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tennessee basketball<\/a> guard signed a 10-day contract with the Toronto Raptors on Monday, the organization announced. <\/p>\n<p>Key, 27, played the past two seasons with Toronto\u2019s G-League affiliate, Raptors 905. He is averaging 16.6 points this season in 33 games. He is shooting 42.4% on 3-pointers. Key played in Belgium following his lone season with Tennessee in 2022-23.<\/p>\n<p>Key, a Celina, Tennessee, native, averaged 8.2 points at UT in 33 games with 15 starts. <\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-2, 207-pound guard\u00a0averaged 17.2 points, 5.3 rebounds and 2.0 assists in the 2020-21 season at Indiana State. He missed the 2021-22 season after having season-ending shoulder surgery in early November then transferred to UT.<\/p>\n<p>Key native\u00a0averaged\u00a014.5 points, 4.4 rebounds and 1.7 assists in 114 career games at Indiana\u00a0State. He is a career 37.4% 3-point shooter. He hit 44.8% of\u00a0his 3-pointers as a sophomore in 2018-19.<\/p>\n<p>Key scored\u00a03,287 points during his high school career at Clay County, which is 11th most in Tennessee history. He scored a single-season state-record 1,383 points as a senior in 2016-17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tyreke Key is getting his shot in the NBA. The former Tennessee basketball guard signed a 10-day contract&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3770],"tags":[7,6,681,195,680,476,3820],"class_list":{"0":"post-701771","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-raptors","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-raptors","11":"tag-regwall","12":"tag-toronto","13":"tag-toronto-raptors","14":"tag-torontoraptors"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116359063477065747","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701771","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=701771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}