On Friday night, the San Antonio Spurs dispatched LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers in a 129-115 win. While all the attention was rightfully on Devin Vassell’s career-high 36 points and the fact that the Spurs snapped an 18-game losing streak, there was a lights-out performance in Memphis that also bodes well for the Spurs’ future.
Spurs shuffle around their G League deals. NBA teams are known to shuffle their two-way contracts around throughout the season. The San Antonio Spurs made their first two-way acquisition by signing David Duke Jr.
David Duke Jr. is coming off a year where he appeared in 23 regular season games (and one NBA playoff game) for the Brooklyn Nets. The 24-year-old averaged 3.7 points and 1.3 rebounds per contest while shooting 46.2% from the field. On Thursday afternoon, ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski reported that Duke Jr.
DEC 14 SPURS SIGN DAVID DUKE JR. The San Antonio Spurs are adding to their roster. According to ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski, the Spurs are signing Delaware Blue Coats guard David Duke Jr.
The San Antonio Spurs intend to sign guard David Duke Jr. to a two-way contract, agent Todd Ramasar told Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN. The Spurs will waive two-way point guard Sir’Jabari Rice to create a roster spot for Duke, added Andrew Lopez of ESPN.
The Philadelphia 76ers couldn’t keep their entire training camp roster around for the start of the 2023-2024 NBA season, so some tough cuts had to be made as usual.
The 76ers have waived rookie shooting guard Ricky Council IV and guard David Duke Jr., the team announced in a press release. Council, 22, is 6-foot-6 and went undrafted out of Arkansas last summer — despite being projected by some outlets to go early in the second round.
On Friday evening, the Philadelphia 76ers played their final game of the preseason at home against the Atlanta Hawks. The 76ers won by a score of 120-106, so they finished the preseason with a 2-2 record in four games. Since the regular season will begin next week, teams have to make roster cuts, and the 76ers have now waived David Duke Jr.
The Philadelphia 76ers signed guard David Duke Jr. to a contract on Monday. Terms of the deal were undisclosed. The 6-foot-5 Duke averaged 3.7 points and 1.3 rebounds in 23 games for the Brooklyn Nets last season.
David Duke is signing an Exhibit 10 contract with the Sixers, Gina Mizell of the Philadelphia Inquirer tweets. Duke became an unrestricted free agent this summer when the Nets declined to give him a qualifying offer.
The Nets are 2-1 after a 92-71 blowout win over the Bucks at the Cox Pavilion Tuesday. Brooklyn was fueled by David Duke Jr. who finished with 24 points and Jalen Wilson who covered the box score with 14 points, eight boards, five assists and three steals.
The Nets open Las Vegas Summer League next Friday night and will have a number of G League veterans as well as two of their three draft picks on hand.
The Nets’ first free agency move of the summer is in the books. The Nets declined to extend David Duke Jr. and two-way player Dru Smith qualifying offers for next season making both unrestricted free agents able to sign with another team.
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The Nets are converting the contract of guard David Duke Jr. to a standard contract, per Brian Lewis of the New York Post. Duke, 23, is 6-foot-5 and has spent each of his first two NBA seasons on two-way deals.
View the original article to see embedded media. Along with announcing that they have signed former Golden State Warriors guard Chris Chiozza to a training camp deal on Friday, the Brooklyn Nets also announced that they have re-signed David Duke Jr.
The Nets have re-signed guard David Duke Jr. on a two-way contract, the team announced, via JD Shaw of Hoops Rumors. Duke, 22, is 6-foot-5 and went undrafted out of Providence in 2021, but also spent last season on a two-way deal in Brooklyn.
The signing could be a way to help placate Kevin Durant if Brooklyn isn’t able to trade him soon.
For David Duke Jr., the Summer League was not just a proving ground. It was an audition for a full-time job in the NBA. A two-way player last season, the 6’5” 22-year-old wants a standard deal which would end his Long Island commute ...
Considering the current state of the Nets roster, it is easy to see Harden's point of view.
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