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Pistons Claim Isaac Jones Off Waivers

November 6th, 2025 at 4:10pm CST by Rory Maher

The Pistons have claimed second-year big man Isaac Jones off the waiver wire, according to Shams Charania of ESPN (Twitter link).

Jones was released by Sacramento on Tuesday so the team could create roster space to sign Precious Achiuwa.

As ESPN’s Bobby Marks tweets, the Kings will now have $191,043 removed from their cap sheet — that’s the amount they would have owed Jones had he not been claimed.

Jones will earn $1,955,377 in his second season, though that total won’t become fully guaranteed until January.

A former Washington State standout, Jones caught on with the Kings as an undrafted free agent in 2024 and appeared in 40 games off the bench for the team, earning a promotion from his two-way deal to a standard contract in March.

While he exceeded expectations during his time in Sacramento, Jones played a very limited NBA role, averaging 7.6 minutes per game last season and logging just 17 minutes in three contests so far in 2025/26.

The 25-year-old forward/center was a far more significant contributor at the G League level, averaging 21.4 points, 9.8 rebounds, and 1.1 blocks on .580/.294/.735 shooting in 16 games as a rookie for the Stockton Kings (32.1 minutes per contest).

Jones will fill the 15th and final standard roster spot for the Pistons.

Pistons Notes: Cunningham, Stewart, Harris, Duren, Fast Start

November 6th, 2025 at 10:57am CST by Dana Gauruder

Cade Cunningham has been a fourth-quarter dynamo during the Pistons’ 6-2 start. The star guard has racked up 86 fourth-quarter points, tops in the league. He has scored 19 points in each of the last two games in the final 12 minutes, including a 114-103 victory over Utah on Wednesday.

“We’re just now turning the corner as far as just not being losers,” Cunningham said, per Hunter Patterson of The Athletic. “We were losers for a little stint in the NBA. But we all have winning habits, winning mentalities. We’re just starting to get our feet wet as far as learning winning basketball.”

Cunningham continues to impress second-year Pistons coach J.B. Bickerstaff.

“He’s phenomenal,” Bickerstaff said. “He’s an unbelievable player, unbelievable person. Great teammate, great leader. Everything you want in a No. 1 guy, Cade is it.”

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Move over, Victor Wembanyama and Rudy Gobert. In Bickerstaff’s assessment, Isaiah Stewart is the league’s premier rim protector. Stewart is averaging a career-best 2.4 blocks per game so far this season. “He’s the best rim protector in the league. His timing, anticipation, always being early to the spot,” Bickerstaff said. “It’s a fearlessness, right? Where a lot of people would just get out of the way because they don’t want to get dunked on anymore, Isaiah doesn’t mind. He’s going to go up there and he’s going to challenge anybody because it’s the right thing to do. And that’s his responsibility for this team – protect the rim. It doesn’t matter to him the outcome, because he’s going to get more times than he’s been got.”
Starting forward Tobias Harris sat out for the second straight time due to an ankle injury but he should return soon. “He’s getting better. The ankle is one of those things that it’s ‘how is it today?’ – you do more and see how it responds tomorrow,” Bickerstaff said. “But Tobias has been, throughout his career, one of the more durable and reliable players who doesn’t miss a ton of time. So, we don’t expect [him to miss significant time], but again, we’ll always do what’s right by him and make sure he’s healthy.”
Jalen Duren had a monster game against the Jazz with 22 points and 22 rebounds. “I’ve had conversations with J.B., multiple conversations throughout the summer, coming into the season on how he’s seen me work on my game in the summer, how he wants me to continue to be aggressive and kind of show what I’ve been working on,” he said. “With that came a lot of confidence. My teammates, too, telling me to keep attacking bigs and whoever opposing teams decide to put on me. I’m just trying to do what they tell me to do.”
There’s plenty to like about the Pistons’ quick start, Pistons.com’s Keith Langlois writes, and they should be even better down the road. Langlois notes that newcomers Duncan Robinson and Caris LeVert are still trying to settle into their roles, while guards Jaden Ivey and Marcus Sasser will provide even more firepower when they return from injuries.

Injury Notes: Smith, Harris, Lively, Middleton, Collier

November 3rd, 2025 at 7:47pm CST by Rory Maher

Rockets forward Jabari Smith Jr. sustained a sprained right ankle in Saturday’s win at Boston and was ruled out for Monday’s game against Dallas, tweets Danielle Lerner of The Houston Chronicle. Tari Eason, who will be a restricted free agent next summer, started in Smith’s place.

Head coach Ime Udoka is optimistic that Smith will return for Wednesday’s game in Memphis, Lerner adds.

Smith, the third overall pick in the 2022 draft, signed a five-year, $122MM rookie scale extension with Houston in July. The new deal kicks in next season.

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Pistons forward Tobias Harris is also dealing with a right ankle sprain and missed Monday’s contest at Memphis, per Hunter Patterson of The Athletic (Twitter link). Big man Isaiah Stewart got the starting nod at power forward with Harris out, notes Omari Sankofa II of The Detroit Free Press (via Twitter). Harris, 33, is on an expiring $26.6MM contract and will be an unrestricted free agent in the offseason.
Third-year center Dereck Lively II missed his fourth straight game on Monday in Houston. He will have his right knee reevaluated when the Mavericks return to Dallas, head coach Jason Kidd told reporters (Twitter link via Mike Curtis of The Dallas Morning News). After having his fourth-year option exercised, Lively will be eligible for a rookie scale extension next offseason.
Veteran forward Khris Middleton missed his first game of the season on Monday against New York, the Wizards announced (Twitter link). Middleton, who was initially listed as questionable before being ruled out, is battling a left elbow contusion. The three-time All-Star is earning $33.3MM this season and will be a free agent in 2026.
Isaiah Collier is active on Monday for the first time this season after battling a right hamstring strain, tweets Andy Larsen of The Salt Lake Tribune. However, Jazz head coach Will Hardy suggested prior to the game that he wasn’t sure whether or not the second-year point guard would actually play against the Celtics. The Jazz picked up their third-year option on Collier last week, locking in his $2,763,960 salary for 2026/27.

Pistons Notes: Duren, LeVert, Thompson, Stewart

November 3rd, 2025 at 2:12pm CST by Dana Gauruder

Pistons center Jalen Duren didn’t come to a rookie scale extension agreement with the front office prior to last month’s deadline, which means he’ll be a restricted free agent after the season. Duren has pumped up his value in the early going, including a career high 33-point outing in Mexico City on Saturday against Dallas.

He shot 13-of-16 from the field and added 10 rebounds, two assists and a block vs. the Mavericks and is now averaging 17.8 points and 10.0 rebounds per contest.

“I mean, he’s such a beast. He makes me look good,” Cade Cunningham said of Duren, per Hunter Patterson of The Athletic. “He makes my job easy.”

“Domination,” coach J.B. Bickerstaff added. “He was phenomenal at putting pressure on the rim. He ran the floor; he scored in a bunch of different ways. (He was) working the offensive boards. He dominated the interior.”

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Caris LeVert is still trying to get into a groove after missing most of the preseason due to a hamstring injury. LeVert, who signed a two-year contract as a free agent during the summer, has only averaged 5.7 points in 18.3 minutes while appearing in three of the team’s six games. However, Bickerstaff is enthusiastic about the veteran’s potential impact going forward. “He takes a lot of pressure off me. It’s more about the type of person Caris is,” the coach said, per Keith Langlois of Pistons.com. “Because he’s always been so adaptable, it makes it easier on me to kind of put him in a place and he can fit any place we decide to put him and he’s the type of guy who doesn’t take away from others’ growth and development. He just wants to compete and play with his teammates.”
In a post on ThePlayersTribune.com, Ausar Thompson discusses his first two seasons in the league. Blood clotting issues marred his rookie season and his offseason routine last summer but he was able to come into this season without any restrictions. “It was my first full healthy offseason, so I put in a lot of work this summer. I felt a lot more freedom,” he wrote. “I could go harder. And I got to sharpen my mentality, just thinking about how I want to feel after games. Basically, I always want to feel like I gave it my all. Like I didn’t hold anything back and was aggressive every chance I got. I have even more drive as a player, now. I want to take it further.”
Rim protection has been a key to the Pistons’ 4-2 start entering Monday’s contest at Memphis. They lead the NBA with 7.0 blocks per game and Isaiah Stewart is tied for fourth in the league with 12 blocks. Stewart is sixth in the NBA with 47 contested two-point shot attempts and second with opponents shooting just 41.7% at the rim against him, according to the team’s PR staff.

Pistons Notes: Gores, Cunningham, Thompson, Cavs Loss

October 28th, 2025 at 4:58pm CST by Dana Gauruder

Pistons owner Tom Gores believes the team’s players and coaches are “fully aligned” after last season’s surprise run to a playoff berth, according to Pistons.com’s Keith Langlois.

“There’s alignment,” Gores said. “There’s tremendous alignment between the players and what they’re trying to accomplish, the coaching staff and (J.B. Bickerstaff). We are fully aligned. I’m sleeping much better at night knowing that. Nobody is laying low on what we did last year. Last year we came out with great urgency, a chip on our shoulder and we won. It’s great, but we’ve go to come in with a bigger chip and great urgency. I think it’s right down from Trajan (Langdon)‘s front office folks to the coaching staff to the players. There’s a huge opportunity for the Pistons to do a lot of special things.”

Gores attended the team’s home opener on Sunday afternoon and spoke with the media prior to its win over Boston. The franchise has generally floundered since he took control of the franchise but Gores believes he’s finally got the right front office and coaching staff to produce a consistent winner.

“I was thinking today driving in, it’s been a decade, really, trying to get to where we are today,” he said, per Omari Sankofa II of the Detroit Free Press. “It’s taken a lot of patience and a lot of hard times. It feels great. I feel like we’re set up to be a machine. I feel like we’re set up to be a sustainable winner. But I’m also nervous, we have to win.”

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Can Cade Cunningham work his way into the Most Valuable Player conversation? If the Pistons can build off last season’s success, Cunningham believes it’s possible, he told ESPN’s Vincent Goodwill. “If I can help get this team to where my goal is to get this team this season, all this stuff will be on the way,” he said. “I’m not shy to say that. I think that’s very possible.”
Ausar Thompson averaged 4.7 assists during the team’s first three games. Bickerstaff believes that Thompson can develop into a reliable play-maker during his third year in the league. “That was part of the plan,” Bickerstaff said. “We go back and you try to study every summer, try to figure out ways to help guys improve, and ways to help your team improve. We noticed, obviously, how many good things happen when we put the ball in Ausar’s hands. … The next step for him was the ball in his hands as a playmaker. Being that Swiss army knife that we knew he was capable of.”
The Pistons’ three-game winning streak was halted on Monday by the Cavaliers, who blew them out by a score of 116-95. Bickerstaff isn’t overly concerned with the team’s clunker against an elite club. “They’re a good defensive team. We just had a rough night (Monday),” he said. “We turned the ball over 26 times. It’s hard moving your offense when you’re turning the basketball over. But it’s one night – we’ll be better.”
The Pistons host Orlando on Wednesday. Thompson is questionable to play because of an illness, Hunter Patterson of The Athletic tweets.
In case you missed it, the Pistons picked up their rookie scale options for 2026/27 on three players. Get the details here.

And-Ones: Payne, Fernando, Free Agents, Breakout Candidates

October 28th, 2025 at 2:29pm CST by Luke Adams

After being waived by the Pacers earlier this month, veteran point guard Cameron Payne reportedly received strong interest from KK Partizan, a EuroLeague-team based in Belgrade, Serbia. However, according to veteran NBA insider Marc Stein (Twitter link), Payne has opted to forgo overseas opportunities for now and will remain stateside in order to seek out his next NBA opportunity.

A 10-year NBA veteran who has earned regular playing time in Phoenix, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, and New York in recent years, Payne appeared in 72 games for the Knicks last season, averaging 6.9 points and 2.8 assists in 15.1 minutes per night while shooting 40.1% from the floor, including 36.3% from beyond the three-point line.

Payne received a training camp invitation from Indiana this fall but didn’t make a strong case in the preseason for a regular season roster spot, shooting just 28.6% from the field and registering nearly as many turnovers (six) as assists (seven).

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While Payne apparently won’t be headed to Belgrade, another NBA veteran is set to join KK Partizan. As Javier Molero of Eurohoops relays, big man Bruno Fernando is signing with the Serbian club to fortify its frontcourt. Fernando, whose last stop was Real Madrid, made 220 regular season appearances in the NBA for four teams from 2019-25. He played in 17 games last season for the Raptors, but has been out of the league since being waived by Toronto in January.
Even though the 2025/26 season is now underway, there are still several notable players who finished last season on NBA rosters and remain unsigned. Eric Pincus of Bleacher Report ranks the top 10 players who fit that bill, with Malik Beasley, Ben Simmons, and Precious Achiuwa topping his list.
Jeremy Woo of ESPN identifies his top five breakout candidates for the 2025/26 season, including Celtics wing Payton Pritchard, Pistons center Jalen Duren, and Pacers guard Andrew Nembhard.

Pistons Pick Up 2026/27 Options On Three Players

October 28th, 2025 at 11:03am CST by Luke Adams

The Pistons have exercised their 2026/27 rookie scale team options on the following three players, according to RealGM’s official NBA transaction log:

Ausar Thompson (fourth year, $11,117,925)
Ron Holland (third year, $9,069,600)
Marcus Sasser (fourth year, $5,198,983)

The Pistons actually made the moves last week, but didn’t formally announce them on social media or on their website. Their decisions had been due by October 31.

Thompson, the fifth overall pick in the 2023 draft, is a breakout candidate in Detroit this season. The 6’7″ wing had one of his best all-around games as a pro in Sunday’s win over Boston, notes Omari Sankofa II of The Detroit Free Press, with 21 points, 12 rebounds, three assists, two steals, and a game-high +15 plus/minus mark. He’s averaging 14.3 PPG, 6.5 RPG, and 3.5 APG through the team’s first four games.

Holland, 2024’s No. 5 pick, appeared in all but one of the Pistons’ games as a rookie last season and figures to play a crucial role off the bench in ’25/26 too. Through his first four outings, he has increased his scoring average to 12.0 PPG on .457/.313/.846 shooting while also contributing 3.5 RPG, 2.0 APG, and 1.8 SPG in 21.3 MPG.

Sasser, 25, made 57 appearances last season and averaged 6.6 PPG and 2.3 APG, with a .463/.382/.843 shooting line. The third-year guard, who was drafted 25th overall in 2023, has yet to play this season due to a right hip impingement.

All three players now have guaranteed salaries for the 2026/27 season, with Thompson and Sasser on track to become eligbile for rookie scale extensions during the 2026 offseason. The Pistons’ next decision on Holland will come a year from now, when they’ll have to either pick up or turn down his $11.49MM fourth-year option for ’27/28.

Jalen Duren Reaches Starter Criteria, Increasing QO

October 27th, 2025 at 7:55pm CST by Rory Maher

Fourth-year center Jalen Duren will be heading to restricted free agency next summer after failing to come to terms on a rookie scale extension with the Pistons before the 2025/26 campaign began.

After making 78 starts last season, Duren started his fourth straight game to open ’25/26 on Monday, giving him an average of 41 starts over the past two seasons. As ESPN’s Bobby Marks tweets, the 21-year-old big man has now reached the starter criteria, increasing the size of his qualifying offer by approximately $649K.

Detroit will have to issue Duren a qualifying offer to make him a restricted free agent in 2026, which is essentially a foregone conclusion. According to Marks, Duren’s QO amount had been $8,966,188, but has increased to $9,615,393 as a result of meeting the criteria.

The 13th overall pick in the 2022 draft, Duren has averaged a double-double each of the past two seasons and is off to a solid start again in ’25/26. Through three contests, he has averaged 15.0 points, 10.0 rebounds and 1.7 blocks in 20.0 minutes per game.

Ordinarily qualifying offers are just placeholders for players and teams to work out longer-term deals, but two players — Cam Thomas and Quentin Grimes — accepted their one-year QOs this offseason, giving them the ability to veto trades. They will be unrestricted free agents next summer.

Central Notes: Nembhard, Cunningham, Jones, Allen

October 26th, 2025 at 9:57pm CST by Eli Cohen

The Pacers have been hit hard by injuries, but there’s at least one ray of hope on the horizon, reports Marc Stein of the Stein Line (subscriber link).

Andrew Nembhard left Thursday night’s game against the Thunder early after aggravating a preexisting shoulder injury. According to Stein, following an MRI, there’s optimism that Nembhard’s absence won’t be a long-term one.

Nembhard is expected to play a key role for the Pacers this season as one of the few healthy ball-handlers remaining on the roster. As Indiana has lost more and more players due to injury, it’s become harder for the team to keep itself organized, writes Dustin Dopirak of The Indianapolis Star.

In addition to Nembhard, Tyrese Haliburton, TJ McConnell, Taelon Peter, Kam Jones, and Bennedict Mathurin were all on the injury report for Indiana coming into Sunday’s game, and things only got worse after tip-off, as Obi Toppin left the game against the Timberwolves early with a hamstring injury, per Dopirak (Twitter link).

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Cade Cunningham had his coming-out party for the Pistons last season, earning All-NBA honors for the first time and placing seventh in MVP voting. That has led to renewed defensive focus from opposing teams, which Cunningham says he’s still trying to learn how to deal with, writes Omari Sankofa II of the Detroit Free Press (via Twitter). “I just don’t feel like I’ve handled it the way I want to,” Cunningham said. “I’m gonna keep watching the film and try to be better for my team. I feel like we had a lot of empty offensive possessions because I just didn’t handle the hots correctly.”
Tre Jones has been labeled a “pure point guard” for much of his career. He’s showing how that can help a team during the start of the Bulls‘ season, writes Joe Cowley of the Chicago Sun-Times. “The game is going positionless a little bit, but trying to keep the point guard spot alive, especially with the height that I have,” Jones said. “I don’t think point guard will ever be out of the game completely. I think there will always be a spot for a point guard and that mentality. It’s something I’ve taken pride in my whole life. How could you not take pride in being called a pure point guard?” Head coach Billy Donovan compared Jones’ ascent in Chicago to Aaron Nesmith‘s jump as a player from his time with the Celtics to his Finals run with the Pacers last season. “One thing I figured out really quickly when I was playing, the most important stat for any NBA player is minutes played per game because these guys are all really, really good, and if they get an opportunity, generally they’re going to show what they can do,” Donovan said.
Jarrett Allen‘s season debut against the Knicks left a sour taste in Cavaliers coach Kenny Atkinson‘s mouth, writes Chris Fedor for Cleveland.com (subscriber link). “That wasn’t the Jarrett Allen we all know,” Atkinson said. “That was more on us not seeking him out. But conversely, he can’t get four rebounds. I was really bummed about that. Can’t be like that.” Atkinson made sure to be clear that he wasn’t singling out Allen, saying, “This is a self-criticism too. We take him for granted. I have to be better about talking to him more and talking to our leaders more about him.” The message seemed to sink in: in Cleveland’s second game against the Nets, Allen had 22 points, seven rebounds, and four assists; he followed that up with an eight-point, 11-rebound outing in Sunday’s 118-113 win over the Bucks.

2025 NBA G League Draft Results

October 25th, 2025 at 3:08pm CST by Arthur Hill

The NBA G League held its draft for the 2025/26 season on Saturday afternoon. Players who signed NBAGL contracts and whose rights weren’t already controlled by a team were part of the draft pool.

Affiliates from all 30 NBA teams took part in the draft, along with the unaffiliated Mexico City Capitanes.

Dillon Jones, who was a first-round pick in the 2024 NBA draft, was selected No. 1 overall by South Bay, which is the Lakers’ G League affiliate.

The 23-year-old small forward was drafted out of Weber State by Oklahoma City with the 26th pick last summer. He appeared in 54 games as a rookie, but only played 10.2 minutes per night and averaged 2.5 points, 2.2 rebounds and 1.1 assists.

The Thunder traded Jones to Washington in June to clear a spot on their roster. The Wizards waived him last weekend and still owe him $2,753,280 for the remainder of the season.

Drafting Jones to South Bay won’t prevent another NBA team from signing him, since holding a player’s G League rights doesn’t mean teams control his NBA rights. However, it will give the Lakers a chance to take a first-hand look at him before potentially offering a standard or two-way contract.

With the second pick, the Osceola Magic selected Tyler Smith, who lost a battle for the Bucks’ final roster spot and was waived last Sunday. The 20-year-old power forward was expected to draw interest as a two-way target, but it doesn’t appear any offers have materialized yet. Smith, who started his career with the now-defunct G League Ignite, was taken with the 33rd pick in last year’s NBA draft.

The Wizards’ affiliate, the Capital City Go-Go, had three of the next four picks, selecting Ace Baldwin at No. 3, Nolan Hickman at No. 5 and Cam Carter at No. 6.

Two notable second-generation players were selected in today’s draft. Jamal Mashburn Jr. was taken at No. 8 by the Westchester Knicks, and Jabri Abdur-Rahim, whose father Shareef serves as G League president, went to the Stockton Kings at No. 29.

Here are the full 2025 G League draft results:

Round One:

South Bay Lakers (Lakers): Dillon Jones
Osceola Magic (Magic): Tyler Smith
Capital City Go-Go (Wizards): Ace Baldwin
Grand Rapids Gold (Nuggets): Adama Bal
Capital City Go-Go (Wizards): Nolan Hickman
Capital City Go-Go (Wizards): Cam Carter
Motor City Cruise (Pistons): Stefan Todorovic
Westchester Knicks (Knicks): Jamal Mashburn Jr.
Greensboro Swarm (Hornets): Ethan Taylor
Raptors 905 (Raptors): A.J. Hoggard
Texas Legends (Mavericks): Kario Oquendo
Grand Rapids Gold (Nuggets): Kenan Blackshear
Oklahoma City Blue (Thunder): Vinicius da Silva (Brazil)
Sioux Falls Skyforce (Heat): Josh Cohen
Texas Legends (Mavericks): Cearius Warren (St. Thomas University)
Osceola Magic (Magic): Ebenezer Dowuona
Oklahoma City Blue (Thunder): John Harge (Adams State University)
Birmingham Squadron (Pelicans): Tray Jackson
Westchester Knicks (Knicks): Jaden Seymour
Birmingham Squadron (Pelicans): Chris Mantis
College Park Skyhawks (Hawks): Tyrin Lawrence
Raptors 905 (Raptors): JP Pegues
Greensboro Swarm (Hornets): Olisa Akonobi
Oklahoma City Blue (Thunder): No pick
South Bay Lakers (Lakers): Selton Miguel
Motor City Cruise (Pistons): O’Mar Stanley
Noblesville Boom (Pacers): Ben Coupet Jr.
Salt Lake City Stars (Jazz): Des Watson
Stockton Kings (Kings): Jabri Abdur-Rahim
Salt Lake City Stars (Jazz): Carter Whitt
Capital City Go-Go (Wizards): J.Z. Zaher

Round Two:

Texas Legends (Mavericks): Sean Durugordon
Stockton Kings (Kings): No pick
Salt Lake City Stars (Jazz): Jermaine Couisnard
Sioux Falls Skyforce (Heat): Dischon Thomas
Valley Suns (Suns): Bryce Thompson
Sioux Falls Skyforce (Heat): Darius Maddox
Santa Cruz Warriors (Warriors): Derrin Boyd
Austin Spurs (Spurs): Pierre Crockrell II
Grand Rapids Gold (Nuggets): Markeese Hastings
Maine Celtics (Celtics): Vance Jackson
Texas Legends (Mavericks): Chandler Baker
Osceola Magic (Magic): No pick
Wisconsin Herd (Bucks): Onno Steger
Iowa Wolves (Timberwolves): Donte Ingram
Memphis Hustle (Grizzlies): Kobe Webster
Sioux Falls Skyforce (Heat): Tyler Hawkins (Barry University)
Motor City Cruise (Pistons): Jason Hubbard (Taylor University)
Wisconsin Herd (Bucks): T.J. Weeks
Grand Rapids Gold (Nuggets): No pick
Austin Spurs (Spurs): No pick
Capital City Go-Go (Wizards): No pick
Noblesville Boom (Pacers): Ahmaad Rorie
Maine Celtics (Celtics): Nicolas Timberlake
Oklahoma City Blue (Thunder): No pick
Rip City Remix (Trail Blazers): No pick
Texas Legends (Mavericks): No pick
Santa Cruz Warriors (Warriors): Franco Miller Jr.
Motor City Cruise (Pistons): Ray Harrison
Wisconsin Herd (Bucks): No pick
Westchester Knicks (Knicks): Fousseyni Drame
Osceola Magic (Magic): No pick

Teams will fill out their rosters with affiliate players, returning rights players, tryout players, and players who are assigned to the G League from the NBA roster (including those on two-way contracts).

G League training camps open on Monday, with this year’s NBAGL Tip-Off Tournament getting underway on November 7. The Tip-Off Tournament will be played over about a month-and-a-half and will be followed by the G League regular season, which begins on December 19.