The Thunder have waived forward Mamadi Diakite, guard Justin Jaworski and center Olivier Sarr, the team announced in a press release today.
Diakite was claimed off waivers by Oklahoma City last month, while Jaworski and Sarr both signed Exhibit 10 deals with the club earlier today. Diakite was only guaranteed $100K this season and held a non-guaranteed salary for the 2022/23 campaign.
Jaworski and Sarr are strong contenders to join the Thunder’s G League team this season.
Diakite is coming off a G League season where he averaged 18.5 points, 10.4 rebounds and 2.1 blocks per game. He was recently diagnosed with a left hip fracture.
Oklahoma City now has 17 players under contract, including Paul Watson and Aaron Wiggins on two-way deals. It appears that Gabriel Deck, whose deal is non-guaranteed, has earned a spot on the Thunder’s 15-man opening night roster.
Is that Ron Jaworski’s son?
No, he’s not related to Jaws.
Be a lot cooler if he was
Isn’t OKC something like $20M below the salary cap floor? They’re gonna have to start spending a whole lot of money before the end of the season to get above it.
They’ll take on someone’s bad contract for a 2034 2nd round pick
That’s gonna be hard to do since they don’t have any bad contracts on their roster to match salaries with. Favors is the closest at 10 million.
They’re paying Kemba to not be there.