In case you missed it buried at the bottom of the article about Culver’s the other day — the news came out as I was writing that blog! — former Marquette guard Kam Jones is no longer a part of the Chicago Bulls organization. The Bulls waived Jones back on June 30th, right before his contract guaranteed for the 2026-27 season, after they made a draft day trade to acquire the Golden Eagles’ #2 all-time scorer.
As it turns out, Jones’ time without an NBA deal of some kind did not last long. Shams Charania
from ESPN is reporting that the Milwaukee Bucks will be signing Kam Jones to a two-way contract. That means that Jones will most likely spend most of the 2026-27 season with the Wisconsin Herd, Milwaukee’s G-League team, as he will have a limited number of days that he is allowed to spend on the roster with the NBA team.
It’s unclear at this point what this means for Jones and NBA Summer League. I would presume that he will not be hurrying out to Sacramento to join the Bucks for the California Classic portion of Summer League, as Milwaukee plays their first game in that event in less than three hours from when I’m typing this. It’s possible that he will join them there, of course, as it is possible that he’ll join Milwaukee for Summer League in Las Vegas when they get that started on Friday, July 10th.
As Milwaukee moves on from the Giannis Antetokounmpo era — hilariously, because of NBA league calendar rules, Antetokounmpo is actually still listed on the Bucks’ roster right this second — and starts up with new head coach Taylor Jenkins, it’s hard to say for absolute certain what Jones’ chances are of playing his way from a two-way deal into a full-time contract with the Bucks. You could make the argument that Milwaukee is entering a process of a rebuild of sorts right now, and at the end of the day, being able to sign a player like Jones to a minimum salary deal could be useful to them. That’s going to require him to prove he can hang in the league better than he did this past year with the Indiana Pacers.
Jones was the #38 pick one year ago, technically being selected by San Antonio before a trade that was finalized after the fact sent him to the Pacers. He appeared in 37 games for Indiana this past season as the Pacers went 19-63 with Tyrese Haliburton out for the year after suffering an Achilles tear in the 2025 NBA Finals. Jones started seven times along the way and ended up averaging 4.4 points, 1.6 rebounds, and 3.2 assists in 16.6 minutes per game. One thing that did not help Jones’ playing time was his 29.3% three-point shooting, and that was dragged down by shooting just 25% in Indiana’s final seven games of the season.
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