is moving on from the Orlando Magic after being with the organization for over a year.
Brazdeikis, who was on a two-way deal with the Magic during the 2021-22 season, signed a contract with Zalgiris Kaunas of the Lithuanian Basketball League and EuroLeague, .
He signed a two-year deal with an option for the second season, Zalgiris Kaunas stated.
Brazdeikis was an unrestricted free agent this offseason after the Magic didn’t tender him a two-way qualifying offer before free agency started on July 1.
For Brazdeikis, signing with Zalgiris Kaunas will be a homecoming. He was born in Kaunas, Lithuania, but , while he was a kid.
After playing for Canada’s national teams in youth tournaments, Brazdeikis regained his Lithuanian citizenship in May 2021 and is playing for Lithuania’s men’s national basketball team. He.
Brazdeikis played a career-high 536 minutes in 42 games while on a two-way contract with the Magic last season.
He had season-long averages of 5.1 points and 1.7 rebounds in 12.8 minutes, including 10.3 points (46.7% shooting) and 2.9 rebounds in 23 minutes in his final 12 games.
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He averaged 11.1 points (40.7% shooting on 3s), 5.1 rebounds and 2 assists in his final eight games of 2020-21 and .
Brazdeikis was selected out of Michigan by the Sacramento Kings in the 2019 draft’s second round (47th overall) before playing a combined 14 NBA games with the New York Knicks and Philadelphia 76ers prior to joining the Magic toward the end of the 2020-21 season.
Introduced during the 2017-18 season, two-way contracts are deals intended for development, with players going back and forth between a franchise’s NBA team and G League affiliate. Each team can sign a pair of players to two-way deals.
The Magic have one two-way roster slot remaining after his two-way on Friday.
Two-way players will once again have a 50-game limit in the regular season to be on their NBA team’s active roster in 2022-23 after the NBA and the National Basketball Players Association had scrapped that limit in 2021-22 because of teams’ COVID-19 outbreaks.
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