The Pacers have reduced their preseason roster from 20 players to 17, announcing today in a press release that they’ve waived guard Naz Mitrou-Long, guard Josh Gray, and forward Devin Robinson.
Mitrou-Long spent the 2019/20 season on a two-way contract with the Pacers, appearing in five regular season NBA games. Gray was on a two-way deal with the Pelicans last season and played in just two games with the team. Robinson has some previous NBA experience with the Wizards but spent the ’19/20 campaign in the G League.
All three players were on non-guaranteed contracts, so Indiana won’t be on the hook for any dead money after cutting them.
The Pacers’ roster now appears set for the regular season, with 14 players on guaranteed deals, one with a partial guarantee (Kelan Martin) and a pair on two-way contracts (Brian Bowen and Cassius Stanley).
good for them they can easily sign someone like Emmanuel mudiay or allonzo Trier
Teams are waving their three-name guys. I count a remarkable percentage of NBA hyphenated surnames got waived… 6 of 13. Maybe the thirteen or so should drop a name to get a better percentage?
Waived: Naz Mitro-Long, Nigel Goss-Williams, Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot, Rondae Hollis-Jefferson, Juan Toscano-Anderson, Keita Bates-Diop.
SIX (plus Al-Farouq Amino inj. for year).
Making roster: Micl Carter-Williams, Dorrian Finney-Smith, Willie Cauley-Stein, Karl-Anthony Towns, Nickell Alexander-Walker, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (related), Ty-Shon Alexander (not related), Talon Horton-Tucker, Kantavious Caldwell-Pope.
SEVEN (plus 2 with 2 first names).
This does not include apostrophes, “de”s, nor “jr”s or even a “sr”.
Add Michael Kidd-Gilcrist, waived. 7 of 14, 50% casualty!
mitrou long wus a pretty good g league call up