SAN ANTONIO – Five months after signing an Exhibit 10 deal with the Los Angeles Clippers, UTSA legend Keaton Wallace has agreed to a two-way deal for the remainder of the season with the LA squad.
The former Roadrunner has spent the past season and a half playing for the Clippers' G-League affiliate, the Ontario Clippers, where he's been averaging 13.7 points per game, 3.6 rebounds and 4.1 assists on the year. Wallace has been shooting 47.9% from the field and 44.7% from beyond the arc. Wallace spent the previous season with the Clippers' G-League affiliate where he averaged 18.1 points per game and shot 41.3% from deep.
Wallace averaged 16.6 points for the Roadrunners across his four-year career where he ended as UTSA's second all-time leading scorer and second-ever player to cross the 2,000-point threshold, finishing with 2,080 points.
After going undrafted in 2021, Wallace played for the Memphis Grizzlies summer league team. Later in 2021, Wallace was selected with the ninth pick of the second round in the G-League draft by the Wisconsin Herd. He was later traded to the Ontario Clippers where he finished the remainder of the G-League season and spent the first half of the 2022-23 campaign.
The two-way contract was put into place by the NBA in 2017-18, as a means of allowing teams to have an expanded bench and giving G-League players an opportunity to audition for a bigger role in the league by playing with the professional team. Each NBA team is allowed two two-way players in addition to their 15 total players. Two-way players must have under four years of NBA experience and are allowed to play in 50 of an NBA team's 82 regular season games but are ineligible for postseason play.
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