The Raptors have waived big man Colin Castleton, the team announced in a press release.
Castleton, who went undrafted out of Florida in 2023, spent his rookie season on a two-way contract with the Lakers, who waived him last October, a few days before the 2024/25 campaign began.
Shortly after being cut by L.A., the 25-year-old caught on with the Grizzlies, again signing a two-way deal. Memphis released him in January.
After spending a few months in the G League, Castleton inked a pair of 10-day deals with Toronto in March before joining the 76ers on a 10-day pact in early April. The Raptors re-signed him to a two-year standard contract on the final day of the regular season.
Castleton’s minimum salary for 2025/26 was non-guaranteed, so the Raptors won’t incur a cap charge by waiving him.
In 26 total appearances for Memphis, Philadelphia and Toronto last season, Castleton averaged 4.7 points and 4.7 rebounds in 16.6 minutes per game.
As Josh Lewenberg of TSN.ca tweets, Castleton didn’t play well for the Raptors during Summer League action, averaging 2.6 PPG and 4.0 RPG in 11.5 MPG over five contests in Las Vegas. He shot just 33.3% from the field and struggled with turnovers (1.8 per game).
Castleton’s NBAGL rights are currently controlled by the Magic, notes Blake Murphy of Sportsnet.ca (Twitter link).
The Raptors now have 16 players on their standard roster, including 14 players on guaranteed deals, plus A.J. Lawson on a non-guaranteed contract and David Roddy on an Exhibit 10 deal for training camp. All three of their two-way spots are filled, as our tracker shows.
White Castle!
They love Poetl so much they wont even look at another big man…wow
He played worse in summer league than the g league project C they have. Along with signing Sandro and having multiple small ball options he became expendable.
Makes sense – Chomche outplayed him in the summer league
Raptors are actually at 15 with this transaction on the standard roster, unless I am missing somebody…
1. Quickley, Shead, Lawson
2. Barrett, Dick, Walter, Temple
3. Ingram, Agbaji, Battle
4. Barnes, Mogbo, Murray-Boyles
5. Poeltl, Mamukelashvili
1. Quickley, Shead, Walter, Martin
2. Barrett, Dick, Lawson, Temple
3. Ingram, Murray-Boyles, Agbaji, Battle
4. Barnes, Mogbo, Chomche
5. Poeltl, Mamukelashvili
Roddy is the 16th — doesn’t count against the cap, but takes up a roster spot until he’s waived.
I thought Roddy was an exhibit 10 contract.
I never considered exhibit 10 contracts on the standard roster. There’s an opportunity in training camp to make the standard roster.
It comes down to semantics, since there’s no formal definition of a “standard” roster. The way we’re using it in this story, “standard” just means non-two-way.
In relation to this story, Exhibit 10 contracts are included on the standard roster (off-season max 21) along with Roddy the Raptors have also signed Tyson Degenhart and Clifford Omoruyi to Exhibit 10 contracts and would push the standard roster size to 18 (+3 TW) bringing their present roster to the max of 21.
Those deals aren’t official yet — we generally don’t include E10s in a roster count until they’re official, since many of the guys who get them end up being on the roster for 24 hours or less (ie. the signings are just for bonus/NBAGL rights purposes).
But yeah, if Toronto intends to bring those two guys to camp, that would be a full 21-man roster.