{"id":49661,"date":"2025-07-08T21:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T21:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/49661\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T21:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T21:05:09","slug":"isaiah-livers-signs-two-way-deal-with-suns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/49661\/","title":{"rendered":"Isaiah Livers Signs Two-Way Deal With Suns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>11:37 am<\/strong>: Livers\u2019 two-way contract is now official, per <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/players\/transactions\" rel=\"noopener\">NBA.com\u2019s transaction log<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>10:46 am<\/strong>: Free agent forward <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/l\/liveris01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-08_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Isaiah Livers<\/a><\/strong> has agreed to sign a two-way contract with the <strong>Suns<\/strong>, agents <strong>Andy Shiffman<\/strong> and <strong>Mark Bartelstein<\/strong> tell Shams Charania of ESPN (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1942608953218851074\">Twitter link<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Livers, the 42nd overall pick in the 2021 draft, got his NBA career off to a promising start in his first two seasons with Detroit, averaging 6.6 points and 2.8 rebounds in 22.3 minutes per game on .426\/.378\/.830 shooting through 71 appearances from 2021-23.<\/p>\n<p>However, hip problems have derailed the 26-year-old\u2019s career during the past two years, limiting him to 23 outings in 2023\/24 and then keeping him on the shelf for the entirety of the \u201924\/25 season. After being traded from the Pistons to the Wizards in January 2024 and then waived by Washington a month later, Livers underwent a hip <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2024\/10\/injury-notes-kawhi-vassell-sharpe-huerter-grizzlies-livers.html\" rel=\"noopener\">resurfacing surgical procedure<\/a> last fall.<\/p>\n<p>Livers said at the time that the hip issue had bothered him for two years, but he has since made a full recovery, per Charania, and will resume his playing career for the Suns.<\/p>\n<p>Rookies <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/b\/breako01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-08_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Koby Brea<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/h\/huntlcj01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-08_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CJ Huntley<\/a><\/strong> are <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2025\/07\/2025-26-nba-two-way-contract-tracker.html\" rel=\"noopener\">currently on two-way deals<\/a> in Phoenix, so Livers will occupy the club\u2019s third and final two-way slot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"11:37 am: Livers\u2019 two-way contract is now official, per NBA.com\u2019s transaction log. 10:46 am: Free agent forward Isaiah&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":49662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[37652,293,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-49661","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-isaiah-livers","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114819650442151153","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49661","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=49661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}