The Brooklyn Nets didn’t have a selection in the 2022 NBA Draft, but they have added a rookie: per NBA insider Shams Charania, the Nets have signed Wake Forest guard Alondes Williams to a two-way contract.
Williams was the ACC Player of the Year and a First-Team All-ACC selection in his lone year at Wake Forest, where he transferred as a graduate student after two years in the JUCO ranks and two years as a role player at Oklahoma.
The 6-foot-5 sharpshooter averaged 18.5 points, 6.4 rebounds, and 5.2 assists for the Demon Deacons last season, becoming the first Wake player to be named ACC Player of the Year since Josh Howard in 2002-03.
A Wisconsin native, Williams scored 1,059 points in two years at Triton College in Illinois and helped them capture the NJCAA Division II National Championship before transferring to Oklahoma, where he averaged 6.0 points per game in 2019-20 and 6.7 points in 2020-21.
Two-way players are eligible to play in 50 of the team’s 82 games and earn half of the league rookie minimum salary of $502,000, but cannot play in the postseason unless they are signed to a one-way NBA deal (as the Nets did with Kessler Edwards last season).
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