2:50pm: The Sixers have officially signed McClung to a two-way contract and waived Champagnie, according to a press release from the team.
12:04pm: Mac McClung is getting a call-up from the G League to the NBA, according to Shams Charania of The Athletic, who reports (via Twitter) that the Sixers are signing the 24-year-old guard to a two-way contract.
Philadelphia will waive current two-way player Julian Champagnie to create an opening for McClung, sources tell Charania (Twitter link).
Undrafted out of Texas Tech in 2021, McClung signed a pair of 10-day contracts with the Bulls in his first professional season and then inked a two-way deal with the Lakers in April, appearing in one game with each club. He spent the majority of his rookie year in the G League with the South Bay Lakers – earning NBAGL Rookie of the Year honors – and has been playing for the Delaware Blue Coats in 2022/23.
In 18 regular season appearances for the Blue Coats this season, McClung has averaged 19.1 points and 4.7 assists in just 25.9 minutes per game, posting a shooting line of .579/.500/.844.
McClung was poised to become the first G League player to participate in the NBA’s dunk contest, but assuming the 76ers officially sign him this week, he’ll now have an NBA job when he competes in that event. He’ll have a busy weekend in Salt Lake City, since he’s poised to take part in the Rising Stars event and the G League’s Next Up game as well.
Champagnie, a rookie out of St. John’s, logged just seven total minutes in two games at the NBA level while on a two-way deal with Philadelphia. He has spent most of the season playing with McClung in Delaware, recording 14.3 PPG and 5.7 RPG on .419/.352/.875 shooting in 18 regular season games (28.7 MPG) for the Blue Coats.
They really should only have players in the league competing in anything. No play in tournament. Stop silver.
I agree, it comes off as Carney Gimmick nonsense.
I thought the season was about team everything, and the trials of unifying/building team chemistry, and the playoffs are a competition to reveal how much a team has has learned, adapted, or accomplished.
If these gimmicks were aimed at that, I would agree more with instituting them, but these are frivolous wastes, of expensive labor, and material. Silver is an idiot, 100%. A wealthy, powerful, influential one, but still an idiot.
Man, Pistons could really use someone like Julian Champagnie. Need a wing.
Pistons could sign both the Champagnies.
Well deserved. Warriors were dumb not to sign Mac.
He’s been available for any NBA team to sign for 3 months. And the Warriors are the dumb ones? Why the warriors?
The warriors are so dumb
yea…..so dumb. 1-2-3-4 times
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Fantastic amazing G League shooting numbers. Be interesting to see how the kid does if the Sixers give him some time. He’s definitely got Talent in a few different areas, let’s see if other parts of his game translates enough to be a fit for a while.
He fills up almost every stat with a number in limited minutes. I know it’s a small sample size but in two NBA stints at 25&22 mins the numbers were almost identical (showing repetition). It’d be nice to see them give him some minutes
Who else on here knew when this kid was an internet dunking sensation in high school, that he’d eventually be signed by an NBA team to represent them in the Slam Dunk Contest?
He had a ton of hype in high school so a lot of people probably thought he’d be in a dunk contest one day…
Championship !!!!!!!!
G-League chip ……..