The Lakers have signed center Colin Castleton and guard D’Moi Hodge to two-way contracts, the team announced in press releases.
Both rookies went undrafted last month and the two-way agreements were previously reported. They’ll also suit up for the Lakers’ Summer League squad.
The 6’11” Castleton started 26 games for Florida last season, averaging 16.0 points, 7.7 rebounds, 2.7 assists and 3.0 blocks in 31.2 minutes per contest. He was named to the All-SEC First Team. Castleton had a five-year college career at Florida and Michigan.
Hodge played his final collegiate season at Missouri, where he averaged 14.7 points, 3.9 rebounds, 1.6 assists and 2.6 steals in 29.1 minutes per game. Prior to last season, Hodge played at Cleveland State(2020-22) and the State College of Florida (2018-20).
Under the new CBA, two-way contracts are worth half the rookie minimum, which comes out to $559,782 for each player. They can be partially guaranteed for up to $75K at the time of their signing.
Q For Luke Adams/Dana or anyone –
Does the “have to have 15” on the roster (not 14) to carry 3 2 -way players go into affect this year or next?
Have heard both
What? I didn’t know that was a thing. With the new CBA that’s going to make things even tighter. Most teams fill the 2 way spots and have 14 on the roster to save money and wait for the buyout market. Do we know the reason for this?
They looking out for the old guys here on players side and helping teams by giving a little extra flexibility as well with the new 3rd slot. Your still entitled to carry 14 if you wish and straddling the aprons (hello Mia) but you’d only get the 2 2 ways
Just don’t know what year it kicks in, have heard differing news
*If this year that probably affects Max Lewis (where he starts) and Cole Swider (job)in one shape or another
I’m admittedly still catching up on all the changes in the new CBA, but I don’t believe the rule is that you have to have 15 standard contracts to carry a third two-way. It’s that if you have fewer than 15 standard contracts, your two-way guys are limited to 90 total games, rather than 50 apiece.
So a team with 14 players on standard contracts can have three on two-way deals, but if all three of those players are active in a game, that counts as three games toward the limit of 90.
Thanx for the reply, makes sense
Commentators sounded unsure as well
Castleton and Hodge sounds like a British comedy duo from the 20s
Their slapstick bits, while ahead of their time, never translated to radio and they both died sickly and impoverished
Fry and Laurie succeeded where Castleton and Hughes could not.
Extremely tough 1st half for Castleton… link to m.youtube.com
Good bench signings