On Tuesday, the Sacramento teams announced that they would be signing Terry Taylor to a 10-day contract.
The Sacramento Kings are signing forward Terry Taylor to a 10-day contract out of their NBA G League affiliate Stockton, his agent Darrell Comer tells ESPN. Taylor has averaged 17.5 points, 8.4 rebounds and 3.4 assists for Stockton.
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Taylor isn't brand new to the Kings' organization. He has spent the season on their G-League affiliate, the Stockton Kings. He was putting together a nice season for them (as is Devin Carter), too – averaging 17.5 points, 8.4 rebounds, and 3.4 assists.
As we mentioned in the headline, Taylor is a pretty unorthodox player. Taylor is 6'5, but he plays much bigger than that. You can see this from his impressive rebounding numbers. For his NBA career (1,166 minutes across three seasons), Taylor has spent 66% of his minutes at power forward. In this way, he bears a great deal of resemblance to Chuck Hayes – an undersized big man from the 2000s/2010s.
The main reason the Kings signed Taylor
Taylor has done a really good job of standing out during his time in the G-League, and he is more than deserving of this opportunity. However, there is a little bit more at play here than initially meets the eye.
Under the current CBA, a team can carry less than 14 standard contracts for only 14 days at a time or 28 total days in the season. After their series of deals at the trade deadline, the Kings were left with 13 players.
To get to the 14-player threshold that is mandated by the league, the Kings have signed guys like Daishen Nix and Skal Labissiere to 10-day deals. Now, both of their ten day deals have expired. So, the team needed to find someone else to fill the void.
In a recent post, we suggest that the Kings should convert one of their two-way guys to a standard contract in order to meet the league's roster requirements. The specific player we nominated was Isaac Jones.
As Greg Wissinger of Kings Herald noted earlier today, it seems that the Kings are trying to avoid converting Jones to save some money, which sucks because Jones has worked hard to get where he is, and he's done well in the minutes he's had at the NBA level.
Still, this is a cool chance for Terry to stick around at the NBA level for good. Hopefully, the Kings find him some minutes so that he can show the world what he's got.
In 95 career NBA games, Taylor is averaging 4.8 PPG, 2.7 RPG, and 0.6 APG on 62.3% true shooting. Taylor most recently played for the Chicago Bulls. He was with the Indiana Pacers before that.