FEBRUARY 22: The Trail Blazers have issued a press release officially announcing the additions of Eubanks (10-day) and Williams (two-way).
FEBRUARY 21: The Trail Blazers are signing center Drew Eubanks to a 10-day contract and are also signing Brandon Williams to a two-year, two-way deal, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reports (Twitter links).
Eubanks’ 10-day contract will come via hardship exception due to multiple players being injured for an extended time period, as Bobby Marks of ESPN notes (via Twitter). That means the Blazers, who have a full 15-man roster, won’t have to waive anyone to complete the signing.
Eubanks has ties to Oregon, having spent three seasons with Oregon State in college. He went undrafted in 2018, but caught on with the Spurs. He was on a two-way contract his first couple seasons before signing a guaranteed deal in 2020, which ran through the end of this season.
Eubanks was waived by the Raptors on February 10 after being acquired in the deal that sent Thaddeus Young to Toronto. He’s been productive in limited minutes during his four-year career. Through 49 games this season, he averaged 4.7 PPG and 4.0 RPG in just 12.1 MPG.
After promoting Trendon Watford to a standard contract earlier today, Portland had an open two-way spot, which it is using to sign Williams. He made a brief NBA cameo earlier this season with the Blazers after signing a 10-day hardship deal at the end of December, appearing in two games for a total of 12 minutes.
A former Arizona Wildcat, Williams has mostly been playing for the Westchester Knicks of the G League this season. Through 22 games with Westchester, he’s averaging 22.3 PPG, 4.0 RPG, and 6.1 APG on .451/.349/.848 shooting.
Better be Bledsoe or Ingles being waived
being signed using the hardship exemption so no roster move is necessary
Hardship exception. Nobody getting waived.
Sankara post all-star mock draft- 1ORL-Jabari Smith Jr Auburn.. 2DET-Chet Holmgren Gonzaga.. 3HOU-Paolo Banchero Duke.. 4OKC-Bennedict Mathurin Arizona.. 5IND-Jaden Ivey Purdue.. 6SAC-Shaedon Sharpe UK.. 7POR-MarJon Beauchamp Ignite.. 8SAS-Orlando Robinson Fresno St.. 9NYK-TyTy Washington UK.. 10POR-Johnny Davis Wisconsin.. 11DC-Jaden Hardy Ignite.. 12MEM-Keegan Murray Iowa.. 13ATL-Blake Wesley ND.. 14CHA-Jalen Duren Memphis.. 15OKC-Mark Williams Duke.. 16MIN-Ochai Agbaji KU.. 17HOU-Walker Kessler Auburn.. 18SAS-Patrick Baldwin Jr UW-Milwaukee.. 19SAS-Max Christie MSU.. 20DEN-Jabari Walker Colorado.. 21DAL-Harrison Ingram Stanford.. 22MIL-Nikola Jovic Serbia.. 23IND-Trayce Jackson-Davis IU.. 24BK-Wendell Moore Duke.. 25MEM-Kennedy Chandler Tennessee.. 26CHI-Kendall Brown Baylor.. 27MIA-Jean Montero OTE.. 28MEM-Kenneth Lofton Jr LaTech.. 29GSW-Tari Eason LSU.. 30OKC-Dyson Daniels Ignite
Had to keep the Indiana kids at home, especially bringing Dale Davis’ son back to the Pacers
I think you are criminally underrating Jovic, I think it should go at the top like that…
1/ Chet Holmgren
2/ Paolo Banchero
3/ Nikola Jovic
4/ Jabari Smith
Chet at #1 & Jovic in the top3, I’m gonna take a wild guess & say that you’re white lol. Jovic is an intriguing prospect tho. I see him as a slightly lesser version of Dario/Deni personally. He’s not on Jabari’s level at all but he can be a valuable role player in the league for years if he gets a lil stronger & tougher. Also I can’t see Orlando going for Chet. They already have Mo Bamba
El White lol.
What’s this another Nikola… And Jokic as well!
It’s Jovic actually
So sorry to disappoint you but no, I am not white, I really don’t understand why you would say that, but knock yourself out my friend!
How can you not understand why I would say that? I made it clear in the 1st part of the 1st sentence
You see my comp of Jovic is Jokic, he is a lil’ bit shorter & slighter build, but he shoots & passes in a similar way & he is more mobile, even able to play the 3 or 4, that is why I have him at 3, as Jokic is light years ahead of any player in the league, if it coms a kid similar in any way to him, is gotta be a star, as simple as… to me race is stupid, we all come from the same man, no difference, no color, no nothing!
Their names are obviously similar but these guys are extremely different players. They don’t even play the same position. Jokic isn’t light years ahead of every player in the league either lol I mean that’s just comical. Tbh I’m even more convinced now that you’re white than I was before lol. If you want a guy that has similarities to Jokic then Orlando Robinson is the closest you’re gonna get in this draft. But your whole draft strategy is just extremely off lol. Isaac Bonga was similar to Giannis as a draft prospect. Giannis was/is even more dominant than Jokic but clearly Bonga didn’t deserve to be a top3 pick just bc he had similarities with a great player
Jovic
#3 says ED
#22 says S
Jokic says x%
Hometown kid comes home
Me Oregon state
Mr Drew Eu!
Always good to give a local guy a shot. Putting up good numbers in G-league.
Couldn’t have said it better. Agreed.