via Brooklyn Nets Press Release
The Brooklyn Nets have signed forward RaiQuan Gray to a two-way contract. Per team policy, terms of the deal were not released.
Gray (6’7”, 260) was selected by Brooklyn with the 59th overall pick in the 2021 NBA Draft and has spent his first two professional seasons with Brooklyn’s NBA G League affiliate, the Long Island Nets. In 44 games (22 starts), he holds career averages of 10.0 points, 6.8 rebounds, 3.1 assists and 1.1 steals in 25.8 minutes per contest while shooting 52.1 percent from the field, 31.7 percent from 3-point range and 71.4 percent from the free-throw line.
This season, the 23-year-old appeared in 18 regular season games (all starts) with Long Island and averaged 15.4 points on 57.8 percent shooting from the floor and 38.2 percent shooting from beyond the arc to go with 7.6 rebounds, 2.7 assists and 1.7 steals in 30.6 minutes per game.
Brooklyn is likely making this move so Raiquan Gray can play against the Philadelphia 76ers in the last regular season game of the playoffs. After signing David Duke Jr to a standard contract yesterday. Brooklyn will need multiple bodies to play on Sunday while Coach Jacque Vaughn rests majority of the team. NBA Two-way contracts are not eligible for Playoffs.
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