{"id":369210,"date":"2025-12-22T08:12:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T08:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/369210\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T08:12:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T08:12:15","slug":"spurs-sign-stanley-umude-to-two-way-deal-waive-kyle-mangas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/369210\/","title":{"rendered":"Spurs Sign Stanley Umude To Two-Way Deal, Waive Kyle Mangas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Spurs have signed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/u\/umudest01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-21_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Stanley Umude<\/a> to a two-way contract, according to Tom Orsborn of the San Antonio Express-News (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/tom_orsborn\/status\/2002866251023135062?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">via Twitter<\/a>). To accommodate the move, the team waived 26-year-old guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/m\/mangaky01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-21_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kyle Mangas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mangas, who <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2025\/12\/spurs-sign-kyle-mangas-to-two-way-deal-waive-riley-minix.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">signed<\/a> a two-way deal earlier in December, didn\u2019t appear in any games for the Spurs, but has made 11 appearances for the Austin Spurs, averaging 16.5 points and 5.0 assists per contest and shooting 39.3% on three-pointers.<\/p>\n<p>After <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2025\/09\/stanley-umude-joins-spurs-on-camp-deal.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">signing<\/a> a training camp deal with San Antonio this offseason, Umude was <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2025\/10\/spurs-waive-flagler-umude-potter-biyombo-makes-team.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">waived<\/a> prior to the season\u2019s start to make room for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/b\/biyombi01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-21_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bismack Biyombo<\/a>. He stayed with the Spurs\u2019 G League team, playing 11 games and averaging 20.5 points, 5.6 rebounds, and 1.8 steals while shooting 39.5% from three on 7.8 attempts per game.<\/p>\n<p>The 6\u20196\u2033 guard has appeared in 47 NBA games over the course of his career, most recently with the Bucks, for whom he played 22 times last season. Prior to that, he played with the Pistons, averaging 5.3 points in 12.8 minutes per night during the 2023\/24 season.<\/p>\n<p>Orsborn writes that Umude is expected to play out the rest of the season with the Spurs. He\u2019ll be eligible to be active for <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2025\/11\/active-game-limits-for-two-way-players-in-2025-26.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">up to 32 games<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Since Umude is in his final season of two-way eligibility, his two-way contract will cover just one year before he returns to free agency in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Spurs have signed Stanley Umude to a two-way contract, according to Tom Orsborn of the San Antonio&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,48087,4,48088],"class_list":{"0":"post-369210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-kyle-mangas","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-stanley-umude"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115762216737793850","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369210","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=369210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}