The Raptors have signed Justin Champagnie to a two-year contract, Blake Murphy of Sportsnet tweets.
It’s a minimum-salary deal with a $325K partial guarantee for the first year, Murphy adds.
The structure of the contract means Champagnie will still be competing for a roster spot in camp. D.J. Wilson got a similar deal from Toronto last week.
They will compete with Armoni Brooks and David Johnson for the remaining roster openings. Rookie Ron Harper Jr. holds one of the two-way contract spots. That signing is now official, according to the NBA transactions log.
Champagnie held a two-way slot at the end of last season and received a qualifying offer, which made him a restricted free agent. The size of his new partial guarantee makes him ineligible for a two-way slot with Toronto this season, Murphy adds in another tweet.
Champagnie fractured his thumb during Summer League practices, Josh Lewenberg of TSN Sports tweets, but is expected to fully recover by training camp,
The undrafted wing, who turned 21 last month, appeared in 36 regular-season games last season. He averaged 2.3 PPG and 2.0 RPG in 7.8 MPG.
Why yall got Khem Birch in the picture though?
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Because MSM doesn’t know jack about the Raptors
Or maybe because there was a simple technical error. Occam’s razor, dude
Torontoans are noted for thinking like MB81 on TheAthletic. Not wrong, but probably overstated for the difference it makes.
Bear in mind that Toronto serves the same function as NYC in Canada, for those who move there to get the biggest city possible boost.
Also they take the NBA seriously as an institution, not just a combination of personalities with an entertaining fail rate (like me).
Technically, Champagnie, Wilson, Brooks and Koloko are the players competing for two spots (provided that Koloko does not sign their open two way contract spot). David Johnson is not under contract at the moment. He was simply extended a qualifying offer for a two way contract.
I really liked him in summer league last year a lot. I dont think there is any chance he dosnt get one of those last spots…
There goes another of the few remaining FA names on my list for the Heat at the 4, outside of current summer league guys on other rosters. I didnt think Toronto would let him go, since he was restricted, but with all their depth at that position, I thought it might be possible
Got to go armoni and koloko out of that 4
BOTH this season and next season,
Win or Lose,
The Raptors will have
Champagnie
After EVERY game !!
Awesome signing. Break out the Sham Pagg Knee.