12:23pm: Carton has officially signed his 10-day contract with the Raptors, per NBA.com’s transaction log.
9:21am: The Raptors are set to fill one of their open roster spots by signing guard D.J. Carton to a 10-day contract, reports Shams Charania of The Athletic (Twitter link).
A pair of spots on Toronto’s standard 15-man roster opened up earlier this week when 10-day deals for Justise Winslow and Mouhamadou Gueye expired. The Raptors had up to two weeks to fill at least one of those openings, but it appears they won’t waste any time getting back to the NBA-mandated roster minimum.
Carton has spent his professional career in the G League since going undrafted out of Marquette in 2021. After one year with the Greensboro Swarm, he has spent the past two seasons with the Iowa Wolves, Minnesota’s NBAGL affiliate.
In 29 games this season for Iowa, Carton has averaged 18.6 points, 5.7 assists, 3.4 rebounds, and 1.6 steals in 35.4 minutes per contest, with a strong shooting line of .527/.395/.796.
Carton’s 10-day contract with Toronto will cover the team’s first five games after the All-Star break. He’ll earn a salary of $64,343 for his 10 days with the Raptors, who will still have one open roster spots after officially signing Carton.
64k for 10 days. I know we have much larger salaries but that number is close to what some of us make per year or half year etc. puts into perspective how much money is in the NBA
Yes and for more perspective consider that people in “regular” jobs get yearly increases for cost of living, performance, etc. Not to mention if they lose their job they can find something comparable in skillset and salary.
Whereas this may be the last guaranteed paycheck he gets for some time, after which he could be pumping gas or earning minimum wage at a foot locker in North Dakota. Yes, NBA players can make a lot of money, but you can’t live off 65k for the rest of your life…
Yup. I work hard to make more than that. Night shift repair of rail vehicles on the main job, weekend hospital repair of devices on the next.
NBA players should be grateful and not complain.
should of been a hawkeye.