The Warriors are adding 6-foot-9 wing Malevy Leons on a two-way contract and waiving Alex Toohey, Anthony Slater of ESPN tweets. Toohey needs knee surgery and is out for the season.
Leons is averaging 14.8 points and 7.6 rebounds for the G League’s OKC Blue, the Thunder’s affiliate.
Leons appeared in six games with the Thunder last season, making six cameo appearances. Leons was on Oklahoma City’s training camp rostervia an Exhibit 10 contract but was waived prior to opening night.
After going undrafted out of Bradley in 2024, Leons signed an Exhibit 10 deal with the Thunder last September and was waived before the 2024/25 season began.
At that point, it seemed like Leons would be headed to the G League to start his first professional season, but he was actually re-signed to a standard contract and spent two-plus weeks with the Thunder last fall, earning $126,356 on a minimum-salary deal before being cut in mid-November.
He spent the rest of the season with the Blue, appearing in 47 G League games last season.
Toohey, a 6’7″ forward out of Australia, played two years with the Sydney Kings prior to coming over to the NBA. Last season, he averaged 10.6 points, 4.0 rebounds, and 1.4 steals in 23.0 minutes per game.
He was drafted in the second round in June and signed to a two-way in late September. He has yet to appear in an NBA game.
I wondered what was going on with Toohey. Now we know. Leons looks intriguing.
Warriors picking up another rebounder to play before end of the year.
At least he is bigger than 6’6″
At least he isn’t a shooting guard…GSW are hearing the criticisms…