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JULY 21st: The deal is official, the team announced via press release.
JULY 6th, 10:24pm: The pact will pay Galloway $5MM per season, Adam Zagoria of SNY.tv tweets.
4:35pm: Galloway received a two-year deal from New Orleans, with a player option for the second season, according to Scotto (Twitter link).
3:46pm: Point guard Langston Galloway will sign with the Pelicans, tweets Michael Scotto of Sheridan Hoops. Contract details are still being finalized, according to Ian Begley of ESPN.com (Twitter link).
Galloway became an unrestricted free agent on Monday when the Knicks rescinded their $2.725MM qualifying offer. Galloway became expendable when New York reached a one-year, $5MM deal with free agent guard Brandon Jennings. Begley notes that New York held Early Bird Rights on Galloway and could have offered up to $6.1MM in the first year of a new deal (Twitter link).
The 24-year-old was a regular part of the Knicks’ rotation this season, his second in the NBA. Galloway appeared in all 82 games, averaging 7.6 points, 3.5 rebounds and 2.5 assists in 24.8 minutes while shooting 39.3% from the field and 34.4% from 3-point range.
He will help offset the loss of Eric Gordon, who signed Saturday with the Rockets. Galloway joins Solomon Hill and E’Twaun Moore as free agent acquisitions for New Orleans this offseason.
Tough for the Knicks. I’ve been saying they need to keep him for good reason; per example link to twitter.com
I kind of saw the Pelicans coming on that. Its a relatively good fit for them, and I’ve liked their moves this offseason after a more than questionable one last year
Pelicans are one of the most improved teams this offseason, they lose Gordon and Anderson but not sure if those are loses since the 2 couldn’t stay healthy, this team was the 8 seed 2 seasons ago and they’re better than that team they could be the 6 seed not that it matters with the Warriors
this signing doesn’t make up for the Solomon Hill and Moore disasters.
I don’t care how much the salary cap has gone up they’ll live to regret those deals sooner than later. If AD can’t get a competitive team around him before his contract is up he’ll be bolt.
Moore is a solid player, although not starting caliber. He put in some very solid games defensively and had a few good offensive runs to keep the Bulls in some games, not that it mattered in the end.
Just because you’ve never heard of those guys doesn’t mean they’re disasters. Those are quality rotation players that a lot of teams wouldn’t mind having. One of the biggest issues for the Pelicans has been depth, and those two address that while also having the added benefit of not being injury prone.