SAN ANTONIO – The Atlanta Hawks have signed a two-way contract with UTSA men’s basketball legend Keaton Wallace, setting the former Roadrunners star to continue into his second season with the NBA franchise. He previously signed a two-way contract with the Los Angeles Clippers in 2023.
Playing in Showcase Cup action last season for the Hawks’ G League affiliate, the College Park Skyhawks, Wallace averaged 12.9 points per game on 43.8 percent shooting from the field, while also averaging 6.1 assists and 4.3 rebounds per contest. Wallace spent the previous two seasons in the Clippers organization with their G League affiliate, the Ontario Clippers, where he averaged 14.3 points per game, shot 46 percent from the field and 38.2 percent from deep, racking up 4.5 assists and 4.2 rebounds per outing. Helping secure his standing with the franchise as a member of Atlanta’s NBA 2K25 Summer League team, in the opener against Washington Wallace shot 50 percent with 10 points, six assists and four rebounds – in just 23 minutes.
Ending his time in San Antonio as UTSA’s second all-time leading scorer and the second-ever player to cross the 2,000-point threshold (2,080 career points), Wallace averaged 16.6 points for the Roadrunners across his four-year career. He also is ninth on the Roadrunners’ top rebounders list, registering 554 boards on a 4.4 rpg average.
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 – then traded to the Clippers, where he finished the remainder of the 2021-22 G League season and spent the first half of the 2022-23 campaign. Throughout his three-year NBA G League career, Wallace has accrued 109 career games (95 starts) with averages of 14.1 points, 4.2 rebounds, 4.7 assists, and 1.6 steals in 31.0 minutes (.457 FG%, .381 3FG%, .776 FT%).
The two-way contract was put into place by the NBA in 2017-18 (no comma needed here) 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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