{"id":18585,"date":"2025-06-27T08:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T08:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/18585\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T08:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T08:27:07","slug":"missouris-tamar-bates-signing-two-way-deal-with-nuggets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/18585\/","title":{"rendered":"Missouri&#8217;s Tamar Bates Signing Two-Way Deal With Nuggets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Nuggets<\/strong> are signing <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cbb\/players\/tamar-bates-1.html\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Tamar Bates<\/strong><\/a> to a two-way contract, according to The Athletic\u2019s Tony Jones (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Tjonesonthenba\/status\/1938425688639279191\">Twitter link<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Bates played his first two collegiate seasons with Indiana before transferring to Missouri for his junior and senior years. In 2024\/25, he averaged 13.3 points per game while posting an extremely impressive .508\/.397\/.946 shooting line.<\/p>\n<p>The Nuggets did not make any draft picks, but according to the Denver Gazette\u2019s Vinny Benedetto (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/VBenedetto\/status\/1938426560098537633\">Twitter link<\/a>), there were situations where they looked at trying to get into both the first and second rounds. Bates is their first reported add of the 2025 undrafted class.<\/p>\n<p>Benedetto adds they may retain one or more two-way players from last season. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/h\/hallpj01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-26_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PJ Hall<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/a\/alexatr01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-26_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Trey Alexander<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/j\/jonessp01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-26_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Spencer Jones<\/a><\/strong> concluded last season on two-way deals with Denver.<\/p>\n<p>Denver currently does not have any players signed to a two-way contract, so the club will have two more slots to fill once this signing is complete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Nuggets are signing Tamar Bates to a two-way contract, according to The Athletic\u2019s Tony Jones (Twitter link).&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[293,62,17653,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-18585","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-tamar-bates","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114754384970785163","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18585","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=18585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}