{"id":156898,"date":"2025-08-18T23:05:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T23:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/156898\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T23:05:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T23:05:11","slug":"magic-to-sign-lester-quinones-to-exhibit-10-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/156898\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic To Sign Lester Quinones To Exhibit 10 Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Magic<\/strong> have agreed to a deal with free agent guard <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/q\/quinole01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-08-18_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lester Quinones<\/a><\/strong>, reports Michael Scotto of HoopsHype (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MikeAScotto\/status\/1957518303905120567\">Twitter link<\/a>). It will be a non-guaranteed Exhibit 10 contract, a league source tells Jason Beede of The Orlando Sentinel (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/therealBeede\/status\/1957521665296068993\">Twitter link<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-440838\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Lester-Quinones-vert-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\"  \/>Quinones has appeared in 54 total NBA regular season games in three years since going undrafted out of Memphis in 2022. His best season came in 2023\/24, when he averaged 4.4 points and 1.9 rebounds in 10.6 minutes per night with a .364 3PT% in 37 outings for Golden State.<\/p>\n<p>The 6\u20194\u2033 guard began last season on a two-way contract with the Sixers, was waived in December, then finished the year with the Pelicans after signing a two-way deal in early March. That contract covered two seasons, but New Orleans <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2025\/07\/pelicans-waive-lester-quinones.html\" rel=\"noopener\">waived<\/a> Quinones last month.<\/p>\n<p>Quinones only made 13 NBA appearances in 2024\/25, but saw action in 41 total G League games for the Birmingham Squadron and Delaware Blue Coats. He put up impressive averages of 21.6 points, 6.8 rebounds, 4.9 assists, and 1.4 steals per contest, though he struggled a bit with his shooting efficiency (.431\/.331\/.713) and turnovers (3.7 per game).<\/p>\n<p>According to Scotto, Quinones will have an opportunity to compete for a roster spot or a two-way deal in Orlando. The latter is more likely than the former, given that the Magic are bumping right up against a first-apron hard cap and don\u2019t have enough room to carry a 15th man into the season at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>An <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2025\/07\/hoops-rumors-glossary-exhibit-10-contract-4.html\" rel=\"noopener\">Exhibit 10<\/a> contract can be converted to a two-way deal up until October 20. The Magic have one open two-way slot alongside <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/r\/robinor01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-08-18_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Orlando Robinson<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/c\/cainja01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-08-18_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jamal Cain<\/a><\/strong>. If Quinones is waived before the season, he could potentially join the Lakeland Magic and earn an Exhibit 10 bonus worth up to $85,300, but Orlando\u2019s NBAGL affiliate would need to acquire his returning rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Magic have agreed to a deal with free agent guard Lester Quinones, reports Michael Scotto of HoopsHype&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":156899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[91290,293,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-156898","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-lester-quinones","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115052277266766574","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}