10:13am: The Thunder have officially waived Jackson, the team announced in a press release.
10:04am: The Thunder are waiving fourth-year forward Justin Jackson, reports ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski (via Twitter). The move will open up a spot on Oklahoma City’s 15-man roster to go along with the team’s open two-way contract slot.
Jackson, who turned 26 in March, has appeared in 33 games (16.5 MPG) for the Thunder this season, averaging 7.2 PPG and 2.2 RPG on .406/.306/.857 shooting.
The former 15th overall pick began his career in Sacramento in 2017 and also played for Dallas before arriving in OKC in the 2020 offseason along with Trevor Ariza as part of a three-team trade that sent Delon Wright to the Pistons and James Johnson to the Mavs.
With a $5,029,650 cap hit for 2020/21, Johnson had been the third highest-paid player on the Thunder’s active roster. Although Oklahoma City will remain on the hook for that money, the club won’t owe the forward anything beyond this season, since he had been on track for free agency.
Jackson would have been eligible to be a restricted free agent if he had played out his contract, but clearly wasn’t in the Thunder’s long-term plans and always seemed unlikely to receive a qualifying offer. He’ll instead reach the open market later this week as an unrestricted FA, and will be able to sign with any team except the Mavs.
Just another example
Not able to shoot from the three is dead sentence in today’s nba
Then how does Ben Simmons still have a job, let alone a max contract?
Hahahaha
Nah man sillyman is a genius. He was constantly telling us how the warriors were gonna trade Wiseman and the wolves pick at the deadline and giving us everyone’s values. Smartest dude out here.
As I said, there is always an unless
always useless
defense and passing, someone playing defense in todays game is like finding a needle in haysack
He has really struggled, outside of certain matchups. Probably not a 2. Might be better at the 3/4, maybe even at the 4, depending on other guys. They have several guys at that position, even after moving people, so probably a good call. Sometimes he seems to have played way too many minutes while struggling, where other guys should be seeing the floor in those situations
Wouldn’t mind seeing the Celtics pick him up to add to the depth. Not the athletic big they need, but better than some of their bench options.
Warriors should give him a shot
Timberwolves as well.. it’s low risk high reward if he can somehow find his 3 point shot
I am a mavs fan. Watching jackson last season was cancer. 90% of the time when he touched the ball on offense, he was gonna drive and shoot is floater. He rarly passed and is a ball hog. Is floater (which is pretty decent) is the only shot he has- he is super one dimensional and falls asleep on defense a lot
For everyone crying that their team traded a mid first round pick, many end up like Justin Jackson, if not worse.
Finally