However, the number of restricted free agents is far smaller.Īs our list of current free agents shows, there are just eight restricted free agents still unsigned - four who received standard qualifying offers and four who received two-way QOs. Of the players who finished last season on an NBA roster and didn’t have a contract for 2022/23, there are still dozens of unrestricted free agents on the open market.
Jay Hernandez, Nick Friedman, Norman Richardson and Marlon Garnett will be retained from James Borrego‘s staff last season. O’Connor spent the past five seasons as an assistant at Georgetown and served as an intern with the Hornets five years ago.
Kreutzer served on Clifford’s staffs in both Charlotte and Orlando and has been a shooting consultant with the Sixers. Walters is a former college and G League head coach who spent time as an assistant with the Pistons and Pelicans. He has been a head coach with both the Jazz and Kings, compiling a career record of 119-167.Īlso new to the staff in Charlotte will be Bob Beyer, Rex Walters, Bruce Kreutzer and Brian O’Connor.īeyer was an assistant to Clifford during his first stint with the Hornets and most recently worked for the Pelicans. Corbin, 59, has 16 years of coaching experience and spent three years on Clifford’s staff in Orlando. Tyrone Corbin will be Clifford’s lead assistant, according to Roderick Boone of The Charlotte Observer. The Hornets have finalized the coaching staff under Steve Clifford, who is returning as the team’s head coach after a four-year absence. Even if Seabron and Brown sign two-way pacts, the Pacers and Pelicans would still each have one slot available. The best candidate for a two-way contract with Indiana, meanwhile, could be 48th overall pick Kendall Brown, who is one of a handful of 2022 draftees still unsigned. A Charania report way back in June suggested that Dereon Seabron would sign a two-way deal with New Orleans, but it hasn’t officially happened yet. The Pacers and Pelicans are currently the only two teams that don’t have a single player on a two-way contract. If and when that happens, the Spurs will join the list of teams with both of their two-way slots occupied. The Spurs also have one two-way player signed and one spot open, though a Shams Charania report last month indicated that undrafted rookie Jordan Hall will sign a two-way contract with San Antonio. If those players simply accept their QOs, neither the Nets nor the Bulls will have a two-way opening. The Nets and Bulls also have one two-way spot filled and one open, but each of them has a two-way qualifying offer out to a restricted free agent - David Duke for Brooklyn and Malcolm Hill for Chicago. The Hawks, Hornets, Mavericks, Rockets, Clippers, the Trail Blazers, and Wizards have fairly straightforward two-way situations at the moment - they’ve each filled one slot and have one open, with no reports indicating that any of those teams has reached an agreement on a two-way deal with a free agent or draftee. That leaves 12 teams with at least one two-way slot available. But it means those spots are unavailable for the time being. That doesn’t mean those players will be locked into those slots for the rest of the 2022/23 season, or even until opening night, since two-way deals are low-cost contracts that don’t count against the salary cap, making them easy to replace. A total of 18 NBA teams currently have both of their two-way contract slots filled, as our tracker shows.