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Bismack Biyombo Re-Signs With Spurs

September 15th, 2025 at 4:04pm CST by Arthur Hill

4:04 pm: The Spurs have put out a press release officially announcing Biyombo’s deal with the team. While the club didn’t announce a corresponding move, NBA.com’s transaction log confirms that Miller was waived to make room on the roster for the big man.

11:15 am: Biyombo’s contract will be non-guaranteed, league sources tell Michael Scotto of HoopsHype (Twitter link).

10:42 am: Bismack Biyombo will return to the Spurs on a one-year contract, according to Shams Charania of ESPN (Twitter link). The deal was confirmed by Biyombo’s agents at Wasserman, Charania adds.

The 33-year-old center moved into the starting lineup last season after signing with San Antonio in early March. He appeared in 28 games, making 26 starts, and averaged 5.1 points and 5.6 rebounds in 18.9 minutes per night while shooting 58.8% from the field.

Biyombo is likely slated for a reserve role this season with Victor Wembanyama returning from a blood clot issue in his right shoulder and Luke Kornet being added in free agency. He gives the Spurs an experienced backup who can rebound, block shots and finish at the rim.

This will be the 15th season for Biyombo, who began his career in Charlotte after being selected with the seventh pick in the 2011 draft. He has spent time with seven NBA teams, but was out of the league last season before coming to San Antonio.

Biyombo’s signing will bring the Spurs to 15 standard contracts. The only player in the current 14-man group without a full guarantee is Lindy Waters III, whose one-year minimum deal is only guaranteed for $500K until the league-wide guarantee date of January 10.

San Antonio is currently at the offseason roster limit of 21 players, so another move will have to be made before Biyombo’s contract is finalized. That could involve waiving Isaiah Miller, who signed a training camp deal over the weekend.

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Isaiah Miller Joins Spurs On Training Camp Deal

September 15th, 2025 at 7:55am CST by Arthur Hill

Isaiah Miller signed a training camp contract with the Spurs on Saturday, Paul Garcia of The Spot Up Shot reports on Substack (subscription required).

While the 26-year-old guard has been with numerous teams since going undrafted out of UNC Greensboro in 2021, he has yet to appear in an NBA game. He was in training camp with San Antonio last fall on an Exhibit 10 contract, but he was waived before the start of the season.

Miller played for the Spurs’ G League affiliate in Austin, averaging 14.8 points, 6.1 rebounds and 2.9 assists in 15 regular season games. He has also spent time with Iowa and Salt Lake City in the G League.

Miller was among 17 G League players selected to participate in the 2025 Up Next event at the NBA’s All-Star weekend. He was also named to the league’s All-Defensive Team.

Since leaving college, Miller has been signed and waived by Minnesota in 2021, Portland and Utah in 2022, Utah again in 2023 and San Antonio last year.

The Spurs had a roster opening after waiving Osayi Osifo over the weekend, but Miller’s signing brings them back to the offseason limit of 21 players.

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G League’s All-Defensive, All-Rookie Teams Unveiled

April 17th, 2025 at 2:43pm CST by Rory Maher

The NBA has officially announced (via Twitter) the G League’s All-Defensive Team for the 2024/25 season. Here’s the full five-player list:

All-NBA G League Defensive Team

The top rookies of the NBAGL season were also unveiled on Thursday (Twitter link). They are as follows:

All-NBA G League Rookie Team

Key, who was recently promoted to a standard contract with Golden State, was named the NBAGL’s Defensive Player of the Year, while Alexander won Rookie of the Year. Badji, who recently signed with a Spanish club, and Nogues, who has declared for the 2025 NBA draft, finished second and third in DPOY voting, respectively. Jones Garcia was the runner-up for ROY, with Young finishing third.

As our tracker shows, Alexander, Jenkins, Young and Dennis are on two-way contracts with their respective NBA clubs.

Journeyman center Brown also earned a spot on the All-NBA G League Second Team, while Alexander made the Third Team.

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NBA G League Announces Participants For 2025 Up Next Event

January 29th, 2025 at 2:44pm CST by Luke Adams

The NBA G League announced today that 27 players have been selected to participate in the 2025 Up Next event at the NBA’s All-Star weekend next month in San Francisco.

The event – which highlights standout players at the G League level and essentially serves as the NBAGL All-Star Game – features a tournament-style format with four teams made up of seven players apiece. Those clubs face one another in semifinals (first team to 30 points), with the winners meeting in the final. All three games will be played on the afternoon of Sunday, February 16, ahead of the NBA’s All-Star Game.

Ten players for the next Up Next pool are selected by fan votes, while the other 18 are selected by the league. Here are the players who have been named as participants for the 2025 event:

Fan voting

Note: Players are listed in order of votes received. Players marked with an asterisk (*) are on two-way contracts with an NBA team.

  1. Yuki Kawamura (Memphis Hustle) *
  2. Justin Champagnie (Capital City Go-Go) *
  3. Jahlil Okafor (Indiana Mad Ants)
  4. Adama Sanogo (Windy City Bulls) *
  5. Skal Labissiere (Stockton Kings)
  6. Kevon Harris (College Park Skyhawks)
  7. Maozinha Pereira (Memphis Hustle)
  8. Trevelin Queen (Osceola Magic) *
  9. Armando Bacot (Memphis Hustle)
  10. Keisei Tominaga (Indiana Mad Ants)

G League selections

Note: Players are listed in alphabetical order. Players marked with an asterisk (*) are on two-way contracts with an NBA team.

  1. Moses Brown (Westchester Knicks)
  2. Josh Christopher (Sioux Falls Skyforce) *
  3. Jeff Dowtin (Delaware Blue Coats) *
  4. PJ Hall (Grand Rapids Gold) *
  5. Elijah Harkless (Salt Lake City Stars) *
  6. Isaac Jones (Stockton Kings) *
  7. A.J. Lawson (Raptors 905) *
  8. Isaiah Miller (Austin Spurs)
  9. Jaylen Nowell (Capital City Go-Go)
  10. Dink Pate (Mexico City Capitanes)
  11. Daeqwon Plowden (College Park Skyhawks) *
  12. Quinten Post (Santa Cruz Warriors) *
  13. Lester Quinones (Birmingham Squadron)
  14. DJ Steward (Memphis Hustle)
  15. TyTy Washington Jr. (Valley Suns) *
  16. Alondes Williams (Sioux Falls Skyforce)
  17. Jahmir Young (Grand Rapids Gold)

The G League announced 27 names today, leaving the pool one player shy of the 28 required for four seven-player teams. However, the NBAGL’s announcement says two more participants will be named at a later date to round out the player pool.

It’s unclear if there’s a math error happening here or if Pate will need to be replaced since he’s also participating in the Rising Stars event. Further confusing matters is the fact that Williams’ name shows up in the graphic released by the G League but not in the press release.

However it happens, the Up Next player pool will eventually increase to 28 names, with those players drafted into four teams by a quartet of “influencer” general managers and then coached by G League coaches at All-Star weekend.

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Spurs Sign, Waive Isaiah Miller

October 15th, 2024 at 5:48pm CST by Luke Adams

OCTOBER 15: Miller has been waived, according to the NBA’s transactions log.

OCTOBER 14: The Spurs have signed free agent guard Isaiah Miller to a training camp contract, according to RealGM’s log of official NBA transactions.

Miller went undrafted out of UNC Greensboro in 2021 and was a G League player for his first three professional seasons, spending one year with the Iowa Wolves and two with the Salt Lake City Stars. In 49 games last season for Salt Lake City, the Jazz’s G League affiliate, he averaged 11.5 points, 4.6 rebounds, and 3.5 assists in 20.5 minutes per contest, with a shooting line of .486/.236/.676.

Over the summer, the 25-year-old suited up for the Grizzlies’ Summer League team that advanced to the championship game in Las Vegas. He subsequently signed with APR, a Rwandan team based in Kigali, and helped lead them to a title in the Rwanda Basketball League last month.

The Stars traded Miller’s returning rights to the Austin Spurs this offseason, lining him up to play for San Antonio’s affiliate if and when he returns to the G League. In all likelihood, the contract he signed with San Antonio is an Exhibit 10 contract that will entitle him to a bonus worth up to $77.5K if he’s waived before the NBA season and then spends at least 60 days with Austin.

The Spurs now have a full 21-man preseason roster, with another week to trim that total to 18 (15 on standard contracts and three on two-way deals) for the regular season.

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G League Notes: Simpson, Boeheim, McGowens, More

September 2nd, 2024 at 3:15pm CST by Earnest Marshall

The Hornets‘, Pistons‘, Spurs‘ and Thunder‘s G League affiliates completed a four-team trade, according to a release (Twitter link) and the G League transactions log.

In the trade, the Greensboro Swarm (Hornets) obtained the returning player rights to both Zavier Simpson and Caleb McConnell. The Motor City Cruise (Pistons) acquired RaiQuan Gray‘s rights, along with OKC’s 2025 second-round pick. The Austin Spurs got the rights to Nathan Mensah while the Oklahoma City Blue obtained Buddy Boeheim‘s.

Acquiring a player’s returning G League rights doesn’t necessarily mean that player will suit up for his new team. These trades ensure that if a player signs an NBAGL contract, he will play for the club that acquired his rights. When deals occur at this point in the offseason, they’re often precursors to players signing Exhibit 10 contracts with the parent club, lining them up to receive a bonus worth up to $77.5K if they’re waived and then spent at least 60 days in the G League.

This deal appears to be for exactly those purposes, at least in part. Mensah and Boeheim reportedly agreed to training camp deals with the Spurs and Thunder, respectively, so these trades indicate those agreements will be completed soon. Mensah played in 25 games for the Hornets last season, averaging 1.3 points and 2.6 rebounds per contest. Boeheim played two seasons with the Pistons, appearing in 20 games and averaging 2.5 PPG.

The other names in the trade are interesting. Simpson played in Summer League with the Hornets but previous reporting from HoopsHype indicated he was set to head overseas this season. He may very well still be doing that, but Charlotte clearly likes him. Gray, meanwhile, was traded while on a two-way contract to the Bulls before being waived.

Simpson has 11 games of NBA experience, averaging 7.8 points and 5.0 assists. McConnell, a former Rutgers player, also played for Charlotte in Summer League. While he hasn’t yet appeared in an NBA game, he suited up for 47 G League contests and averaged 7.1 points and 5.7 rebounds last season. Gray played parts of two seasons with the Nets and then Spurs, averaging 9.8 points in his four games.

We have more from the G League:

  • The Cruise and Spurs participated in another multi-team trade, with Motor City acquiring the rights to Javante McCoy and Reggie Kissoonlal along with unspecified draft capital, according to the log and a team release (Twitter link). Austin obtained the rights to Isaiah Miller and Jaylen Johnson, while the Salt Lake City Stars (Jazz) got a 2025 first round pick and Jayce Johnson. None of those players have yet agreed to sign Exhibit 10 deals, but as teams start fielding their training camp rosters, they’ll be names to monitor. All players involved have previously participated in training camps with NBA teams.
  • The Long Island Nets and Cleveland Charge completed their own trade, with the rights to Trey McGowens heading to Cleveland in exchange for Tray Maddox‘s rights (Twitter link). McGowens signed an Exhibit 10 with Brooklyn last season and averaged 10.1 points in 16 G League games last season. Maddox, a Western Michigan product who went undrafted in 2023, averaged 6.1 PPG last season for the Charge.
  • In case you missed it, Lonnie Walker IV signed an Exhibit 10 deal with the Celtics and may end up playing for their G League affiliate this season, at least to begin the year.
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Jazz Sign, Waive Isaiah Miller

October 21st, 2023 at 5:50pm CST by Arthur Hill

Free agent shooting guard Isaiah Miller has been signed and waived by the Jazz, the team announced in a press release.

Miller, 25, played last year with Utah’s G League affiliate, the Salt Lake City Stars, after being signed and waived shortly before the start of the season. He averaged 7.8 points, 4.2 rebounds and 2.1 assists in 29 regular season games.

Assuming he received an Exhibit 10 contract, which is a safe bet, Miller can earn a bonus of up to $75K if he spends at least 60 days with Salt Lake City.

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Three Players Signed, Waived By Jazz

October 15th, 2022 at 7:34pm CST by Arthur Hill

The Jazz have placed forward Tyler Cook and guards Frank Jackson and Isaiah Miller on waivers, the team announced in a press release. Their signings were announced earlier today, as Andy Larsen of The Salt Lake Tribune tweets.

Cook, a 25-year-old forward, appeared in 20 games with the Bulls last season on a two-way contract. He entered the league with the Cavaliers in 2019 and has also played for the Nuggets, Pistons and Nets.

Jackson spent the past two seasons with the Pistons and played two years with the Pelicans as well. The 24-year-old guard was the 31st pick in the 2017 draft.

Miller, a 24-year-old point guard, was waived by the Trail Blazers earlier this week. He spent last season with the Iowa Wolves, Minnesota’s G League affiliate.

All three players are likely to end up with Utah’s G League team, the Salt Lake City Stars, once they clear waivers.

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Trail Blazers Waive Jared Rhoden, Isaiah Miller

October 12th, 2022 at 3:45pm CST by Luke Adams

3:45pm: The Blazers have officially cut Rhoden and Miller, the team confirmed in a press release.

3:35pm: The Trail Blazers intend to waive guards Jared Rhoden and Isaiah Miller, according to Aaron Fentress of The Oregonian. Rhoden and Miller had been in camp on Exhibit 10 contracts.

Rhoden, who went undrafted out of Seton Hall in June, played for Sacramento’s Summer League teams in July before signing a training camp contract with Portland. Miller went undrafted in 2021 out of UNC Greensboro and spent the season in the G League as an affiliate player with the Iowa Wolves, averaging 12.7 points, 4.7 rebounds and 3.2 assists in 32 games.

Neither player will report to the Trail Blazers’ G League team, since Portland is one of two NBA teams that doesn’t have an NBAGL affiliate.

The cuts, once they’re official, will leave the Blazers with 15 players under contract — 14 of those players have guaranteed standard deals, while Olivier Sarr is on an Exhibit 10 contract.

Fentress notes that Sarr has had a strong preseason and seems to have a strong chance to make the regular season roster, though I’d be surprised if the tax-conscious Blazers keep him on the standard 15-man roster rather than converting him to a two-way deal. Both of Portland’s two-way slots are currently open.

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Contract Details: M. Morris, Vonleh, M. Hill, Blazers

September 8th, 2022 at 5:44am CST by Luke Adams

Markieff Morris‘ one-year, minimum-salary contract with the Nets is non-guaranteed for now, but the veteran forward will receive a partial guarantee worth $500K if he isn’t waived on or before the first day of the regular season, Hoops Rumors has learned.

Morris’ partial guarantee would increase to $1MM if he hasn’t been cut by December 10. He would lock in his full $2,905,581 minimum salary (only $1,836,090 counts against the Nets’ cap) after the league-wide guarantee date in January, assuming he remains under contract.

Here are a few more details on recently signed contracts from around the NBA:

  • Noah Vonleh‘s one-year, minimum-salary deal with the Celtics, which is now official, includes an Exhibit 9 clause, but not an Exhibit 10. Teams generally include Exhibit 10 clauses in order to either convert a contract to a two-way deal or because they expect the player to suit up for their G League affiliate. Vonleh isn’t eligible for a two-way deal and it appears there are no plans to have him join the Maine Celtics if he doesn’t make Boston’s regular season roster.
  • Malcolm Hill accepted his two-way qualifying offer from the Bulls, Hoops Rumors has confirmed, so his two-way deal only covers one year — he’ll be eligible for restricted free agency in 2023.
  • As expected, the four camp invitees signed by the Trail Blazers – Devontae Cacok, Olivier Sarr, Jared Rhoden, and Isaiah Miller – all received Exhibit 10 contracts. Portland doesn’t have a G League affiliate, so those players won’t receive Exhibit 10 bonuses, but their contracts could be converted into two-way deals.
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