{"id":120761,"date":"2025-07-11T12:53:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T12:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/120761\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T12:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T12:53:10","slug":"clippers-sign-kobe-sanders-to-two-way-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/120761\/","title":{"rendered":"Clippers Sign Kobe Sanders To Two-Way Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>8:00 pm: The deal is official, per NBA.com\u2019s transaction log.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-439155\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Kobe-Sanders-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\"  \/>3:50 pm: The Clippers and second-round pick <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/s\/sandeko01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-10_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kobe Sanders<\/a> have agreed to a two-way contract, agent Shaun Hickombottom tells Michael Scotto of HoopsHype (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MikeAScotto\/status\/1943400611741131076\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter link<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Law Murray of The Athletic confirms the news (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LawMurrayTheNU\/status\/1943401602054001003\" rel=\"nofollow\">via Twitter<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The Clippers <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2025\/06\/clippers-to-acquire-no-50-pick-kobe-sanders-from-knicks.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">traded up<\/a> one spot in last month\u2019s two-day draft to acquire Sanders\u2019 rights. He was selected 50th overall.<\/p>\n<p>After spending four years at Cal Poly, the 23-year-old guard\/forward transferred to Nevada for his fifth and final college season. In 33 games for the Wolf Pack in 2024\/25, Sanders averaged 15.8 points, 4.5 assists, 3.9 rebounds and 1.1 steals in 31.7 minutes per contest, posting a shooting slash line of .460\/.342\/.795.<\/p>\n<p>As <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2025\/07\/2025-26-nba-two-way-contract-tracker.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">our tracker<\/a> shows, the Clippers will have all three of their two-way slots filled once Sanders\u2019 deal is official, with <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/b\/baldwpa01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-10_bbr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Patrick Baldwin Jr.<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/f\/flowetr01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-10_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Trentyn Flowers<\/a> holding the other two spots.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders will earn $636,435 in 2025\/26, half of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2025\/06\/nba-minimum-salaries-for-2025-26.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">rookie minimum<\/a>, and is eligible to be active for up to 50 regular season games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"8:00 pm: The deal is official, per NBA.com\u2019s transaction log. 3:50 pm: The Clippers and second-round pick Kobe&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,21509,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-120761","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-kobe-sanders","10":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/114834702626618558","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}