JULY 31: The signing is official, the Blazers confirmed today in a press release. Graham’s contract is non-guaranteed, Aaron Fentress of The Oregonian confirms (via Twitter).
JULY 30: Free agent guard Devonte’ Graham has agreed to a one-year deal with the Trail Blazers, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski tweets. Graham appeared in 46 games with the Spurs the past two seasons.
Graham wound up on the free agent market after the Spurs traded him to the Hornets earlier this month and Charlotte waived him. Graham’s $12.65MM contract was only partially guaranteed for $2.85MM before he was cut loose.
Terms of the contract with the Blazers haven’t been revealed, but Sean Highkin of Rose Garden Report believes it’s a camp deal, noting the Blazers currently have all 15 roster spots filled. One of those players, Dalano Banton, has a partially guaranteed contract. His $2.2MM salary is only guaranteed for $217,533 if he’s waived before opening night.
Graham, 29, played sparingly with the Spurs last season, averaging just 5.0 points per game on a .352/.301/.813 shooting line. He appeared in only 23 contests, logging 13.6 minutes per night.
Graham began his NBA career with the Hornets, for whom he played from 2018-21. He spent 2021/22 and part of ’22/23 with the Pelicans before being traded to San Antonio midway through that season. During his best year, 2019/20, Graham finished fifth in Most Improved Player voting, averaging 18.2 points, 7.5 assists, 3.4 rebounds and 1.0 steals per game.
The blazer must have needed someone who could stay in front of Scoot in practice? He will most likely be part of the ReMix constantly remixing with the Blazers since they’re tanking for Cooper Flagg. So many injuries coming in the Blazers future. Now we all know why they named their G-league franchise “ReMix” so for two years in a row the real NBA blazers should be called ReMixed. This whole
League is a joke now and NBA stands for (N)othing (B)ut (A)ctors driven by corporate $$$ fake!
It sucks when you love basketball but the current product is trash. Weakest era ever
So true. Since it seems it’s management has planned to keep tanking before even giving a group any chance of being successful, we can expect to see multiple lineups all year. They definitely named their G-League team ReMix with the purpose of constantly remixing with the Blazers. Sad days to be a blazers fan. Crazy how last years team was even hard to see their games because of the TV deal, it almost seemed like they wanted it that way so that not many would notice how blatantly their tanking was. The league hardly mentioned it because they were “out of sight and out of people’s minds”
Hopefully this means they are trading Simons soon