September 25, 2024
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What does Sixers two-way signing Lester Quiñones bring to the table?
A last-minute change to the fringes of the Sixers roster with less than a week to go until the team's training camp begins in The Bahamas: according to a report from Shams Charania, the team is singing guard Lester Quiñones to a two-way contract.
Free agent G Lester Quinones has agreed to a two-way NBA deal with the Philadelphia 76ers, sources tell @TheAthletic. Quinones averaged 4.2 points in 10.1 minutes over 41 games for the Warriors over last two seasons and will now compete for a roster spot for 76ers. pic.twitter.com/xBAO91Qjw3
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) September 25, 2024
Quiñones, 23, spent much of the last two seasons on two-way deals with the Golden State Warriors before being converted to a standard NBA deal near the end of the 2023-24 campaign. Listed at 6-foot-5 and 208 pounds, Quiñones is a score-first guard who is very capable of putting the ball in the basket.
Of Quiñones' 41 NBA appearances, 37 came last year. In 10.6 minutes per game, Quiñones averaged 4.4 points, 1.9 rebounds and 1.0 assist per contest, shooting 39.7 percent from the field and 36.4 percent from beyond the arc. In his final two of three collegiate seasons at Memphis, though, Quiñones shot a combined 39.4 percent from three-point range on 4.1 attempts per game.
Over the last two seasons, Quiñones has appeared in 33 G League games and dominated, averaging 20.2 points, 5.5 rebounds and 3.1 assists per game while shooting 36.5 percent from deep on massive volume (7.3 attempts per game).
What remains unclear is how the Sixers will clear the requisite space to sign Quiñones. They already have three players inked to two-way deals, which means in order to officially add Quiñones, the team will have to either release or convert to a standard deal one of Jeff Dowtin Jr., Justin Edwards and David Jones.
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