{"id":39994,"date":"2022-06-28T13:27:27","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T13:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/former-fsw-guard-keon-ellis-signs-nba-contract-first-in-bucs-history-with-sacramento-kings"},"modified":"2022-06-28T13:27:27","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T13:27:27","slug":"former-fsw-guard-keon-ellis-signs-nba-contract-first-in-bucs-history-with-sacramento-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/former-fsw-guard-keon-ellis-signs-nba-contract-first-in-bucs-history-with-sacramento-kings","title":{"rendered":"Former FSW guard Keon Ellis signs NBA contract, first in Bucs history, with Sacramento Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keon Ellis, who played two years at Florida SouthWestern before transferring to the University of Alabama, made history by signing&nbsp;a two-year, two-way contract with the Sacramento Kings and their G League affiliate in Stockton, California. He is the first former Buccaneers player&nbsp;to ink a deal with an NBA team. &#8220;That&#8217;s what I coach for,&#8221; FSW men&#8217;s basketball head coach Eric Murphy said. &#8220;To me, that&#8217;s what it&#8217;s all about. It&#8217;s not so much about wins and losses as it is trying to&nbsp;help these guys achieve their dreams.&#8221; Ellis, who could not be reached for comment,&nbsp;went unselected in this year&#8217;s NBA Draft Thursday and agreed to the deal on Friday. Every NBA team&nbsp;is allowed two players on their roster who are on two-way contracts and don&#8217;t count toward the NBA&#8217;s 15-man roster limit. More: NBA Draft 2022: Where could former FSW star, Alabama player Keon Ellis be selected? More: Former FSW teammates Berrick JeanLouis, Keon Ellis to reunite in first round<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keon Ellis, who played two years at Florida SouthWestern before transferring to the University of Alabama, made history by signing&#160;a two-year, two-way contract with the Sacramento Kings and their G<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[257,256,58],"class_list":["post-39994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-basketball","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}