Admiral Schofield re-signed with the Orlando Magic on a two-way contract Friday night, the group introduced.
A league supply advised the Orlando Sentinel earlier than the group’s announcement that Schofield signed the two-way qualifying supply the Magic prolonged to him earlier than free company began, making means for his return.
Schofield, a 25-year-old ahead who was the 2019 draft’s forty second choose, was amongst a quartet of gamers whom the Magic signed to 10-day contracts by way of hardship exceptions in mid-December from the group’s G League affiliate, the Lakeland Magic, as a result of a number of gamers have been put in COVID-19 well being and security protocols.
He signed a number of 10-day offers earlier than signing a two-way contract in early January, averaging 3.8 factors in 12.3 minutes (38 video games).
Schofield performed for the Magic’s Las Vegas summer time league group earlier in July, averaging 9 factors (50% capturing on 3-pointers) and 4 rebounds in two video games earlier than Orlando shut him down.
Schofield, 6-foot-5 and 240 kilos, averaged 3 factors on 38% capturing and 1.4 rebounds in 11.2 minutes in 33 video games (two begins) for the Washington Wizards in the course of the 2019-20 season. He additionally hung out with the Wizards’ G League group, Capital Metropolis Go-Go, averaging 16 factors and 5.5 rebounds in 33 G-League video games that season.
The Wizards traded Schofield in the course of the 2020 draft to the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder, they usually waived him in the course of the preseason. He averaged 10.1 factors and 5.7 rebounds in 26.2 minutes per recreation with the Charlotte Hornets’ G League affiliate, the Greensboro Swarm, throughout 2020-21.
Schofield signed with the Magic as a free agent on Sept. 21, enjoying in two preseason video games earlier than being waived on Oct. 16. He averaged 14.4 factors and seven.2 rebounds in 33 minutes in 12 video games (10 begins) with Lakeland earlier than becoming a member of Orlando.
Launched in the course of the 2017-18 season, two-way contracts are offers meant for improvement, with gamers going forwards and backwards between a franchise’s NBA group and G League affiliate.
Every group can signal a pair of gamers to two-way offers, that means the Magic have one two-way roster slot remaining.
Two-way gamers will as soon as once more have a 50-game restrict within the common season to be on their NBA group’s lively roster in 2022-23 after the NBA and the Nationwide Basketball Gamers Affiliation had scrapped that restrict in 2021-22 due to groups’ COVID-19 outbreaks.
This text first appeared on OrlandoSentinel.com. E mail Khobi Value at khprice@orlandosentinel.com or observe him on Twitter at @khobi_price.
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