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Milwaukee Bucks to add Anžejs Pasečņiks on two-way contract
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The Milwaukee Bucks waived two-way guard Jaylin Galloway on Aug. 1, and then the agent for center Anžejs Pasečņiks announced on ESPN he would sign with the team.
Players on two-way contracts can play 50 games in the NBA. Pasečņiks will also be able to play with the Bucks’ G League affiliate, the Wisconsin Herd.
Pasečņiks, 28, was originally the No. 25 pick in the 2017 NBA draft by Orlando, but was immediately traded to Philadelphia. The 76ers eventually renounced his rights, and he didn’t appear in a regular-season game until he signed a two-way contract with the Washington Wizards in 2019.
The contract was converted to a full deal in January 2020. Pasečņiks was then waived in January 2021.
The last time the 7-footer played significant minutes in the NBA was on Aug. 11, 2020, against the Bucks when he went 4-for-9 from the floor, including 2 of 4 from behind the three-point line, in scoring 10 points in just under 21 minutes in the “bubble” during the worldwide coronavirus pandemic.
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Pasečņiks played last season for Palencia in Spain, averaging 13 points per game in about 22 minutes of action over 34 contests. He made just 1 of 10 three-pointers and averaged fewer than one block per game.
Galloway never appeared in an NBA game for the Bucks after signing a two-way way deal out of the Australian National Basketball League in March.