LA Clippers SIGN TyTy Washington Jr to a 1-YR $2.3M Deal!
What up? It’s your boy Wall Street and I’m back. No, I haven’t been posting in a couple of days, but here I am and it’s basketball time. So, let’s get down to it. Tai Tai Washington Jr. signing a one-year, $2.3 million deal with the Los Angeles Clippers. And if you guys are unfamiliar with Tai Tai Washington Jr., He is a point guard out of the University of Kentucky. He was a firstround pick in the 2022 NBA draft. He was the 29th overall pick in that draft class. Uh originally selected by the Memphis Grizzlies and then was traded to the Houston Rockets um where he spent his rookie season. He has bounced around quite a bit since then. He played for Houston, he played for Milwaukee, and then he played for Phoenix last season. So, he has talent. Um, and he’s young, right? He’s only 23 years old. He’ll be 24 here in November. But, you know, he’s one of those guys where I feel like he probably would have benefited from staying in college maybe another year or two. Um, and we see this happen all the time in the NBA, right? And, you know, guys, you know, tend to bounce around the league a little bit until they eventually fall out of the league. I don’t think he’s gonna fall out of the league, at least you know, not yet. And um you know, but like you know, he had really good games in college, right? He had a game in college where he had 17 points and 17 assists, right? That was uh that beat John Wall’s record uh for assists in a game, you know, for the University of Kentucky. Uh and shout out John Wall. If you know me, you know how much I love John Wall. So, you know, that’s that’s pretty amazing to beat one of John Wall’s records, right? Um, he also had a, you know, a career-high 28 points when they played a game against Tennessee his freshman year. Finished that year with averages of 12.5 points per game, 3.9 assists, and 3.5 rebounds a night. So, it just seems like if he had stayed in college, he could have been a guy that, you know, by his junior year, senior year, he could be averaging 25 points a game, right? And he might have improved his draft stock, right? The NBA clearly favors guys that are younger coming into the league. So, I understand why he wanted to get to the league. You know, the there’s a lot more money to be made. Um, you know, maybe now that’s different with NIL, but back in, you know, 2021, I feel like it was a little different. So, I think him signing with the Clippers though is a good move because he’s probably not going to get a lot of playing time, right? But I’ve said this before about the Clippers is, you know, the the average age of this team is pretty high, right? They have very few young players on this team. They have Cam Christie. They have Kobe Brown. You know, they they drafted uh Yannik Conan, who’s a center out of Penn State. They got him in this past year’s draft. Um but besides that, they don’t really have a ton of like super young guys, right? like Avita Zubas is not old, but he’s not, you know, on the super young side. Same thing with John Collins. And then James Hart and Bradley Beal, Kawhi Leonard, and Chris Paul, they’re all kind of in in the twilight years of their career, right? Like they’re kind of on the way out. They’re still impactful players, don’t get me wrong, but, you know, this is not their prime. So there is a real possibility here that, you know, maybe James Harden, you know, sits out a couple games, maybe Chris Paul’s out a couple games, maybe Bradley Beiel’s out a couple games. So there is a potential for Tai Tai Washington Jr. to get minutes because of those guys missing games. I feel like if they’re not missing games though, he’s not going to play. Um, and that’s just the reality of the league for, you know, a lot of players that are in similar shoes to Tai Tai Washington. So, you know, he’s played 58 career games, right, over three seasons. That’s not that many. Only played 16 games last season for the Suns. Playing 7.4 minutes a night. Did not have good shooting splits. Shot 31% from the field, 19% from three, 50% from the free throw line. So, this is really like this is kind of make orb break moment for, you know, Tai Tai Washington Jr. And do I think he can, you know, make his mark and figure out how to stick around the league? Yes. Because he’s a guy that can push the ball with pace. He’s a good, you know, driver to the basket. He’s a good slasher, right? He’s a guy that could play the two if you really needed him to, but he can’t really play the two well in the modern NBA because he’s not an elite defender and he’s not a guy that’s a knockdown shooter. So, in order for him to really stick in the league, he’s got to figure out how to add one of those things to his game so that he is forced to be played in a sense, right? Like, he’s got to give Tai Lou a reason to be like, “All right, this guy has to be on the court, right?” So, we’ll see what happens. I’m certainly rooting for him. Um, you know, he’s out of Phoenix, uh, Phoenix, Arizona. Shout out Phoenix in the greater Phoenix and Scottdale area. But, he’s got talent. It’s just a matter of, you know, can he really make an impact on an NBA roster? And I hope we get to see him in some games this year. I’ll definitely be tuning in to some Clippers games on League Pass cuz, you know, they’ll probably get some national TV games, but you know, when they’re not, I’ll be on League Pass. You know what I do? So, that’s all I got, guys. Tai Tai Washington Jr. going to the Clippers on a one-year deal. Let me know your thoughts. Put some comments down below. Let me know what it is and what’s up. And I’m going catch you guys later, man. Stay up. Stay blessed. Stay safe. Stay humble. Handle business. Stand on business. Peace out.
The Los Angeles Clippers have signed G TyTy Washington Jr. to a 1-year deal worth approximately $2.3M.
Washington was the 29th overall pick in the 2022 NBA Draft, and has spent each of his 3 seasons in the NBA with different teams (Houston Rockets, Milwaukee Bucks, and the Phoenix Suns). He has yet to find his niche in the NBA, and is working towards developing a skillset that will be coveted by teams around the league.
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