The Detroit Pistons have claimed second-year ahead Isaac Jones off the waiver wire, sources near the workforce advised ESPN’s Shams Charania on Thursday.
Kings Launched Isaac Jones, Signed Valuable Achiuwa
Jones was launched by the Sacramento Kings on Tuesday to ensure that the workforce to create roster house to signal former New York Knicks middle Valuable Achiuwa to a one-year, veteran minimal deal.
Achiuwa was despatched to the Knicks as a part of the OG Anunoby commerce in December 2023.
The Detroit Pistons have claimed former Sacramento Kings middle Isaac Jones off free company waivers, sources inform ESPN. The second-year huge man occupies the Pistons’ fifteenth roster spot.
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) November 6, 2025
Per ESPN’s Bobby Marks, the Kings will now have $191,043 faraway from their cap sheet — that’s the quantity they’d have owed Jones had he not been claimed.
Whereas Jones will earn $1.95 million in his second marketing campaign, that complete gained’t develop into absolutely assured till January. That is a part of the two-year, $2.1 million rest-of-season contract he signed with Sacramento in March.
Jones Went Undrafted Out Of Washington State
Jones, a former Washington State star, went undrafted in 2024 and signed a two-way contract with the Kings. He appeared in 40 video games off the bench final season, averaging 3.4 factors, 1.4 rebounds, and seven.6 minutes per contest.
The 6-foot-8 wing had his two-way deal transformed to an ordinary contract in March.
In Sacramento’s 133-104 house loss to the Knicks on March 10, he recorded profession highs of 12 factors and 5 rebounds to go along with a pair of assists and one steal in 18 minutes of motion.
Earlier in his rookie season, Jones additionally matched his profession excessive in scoring versus the San Antonio Spurs (Dec. 1) and Houston Rockets (Dec. 3).
His function was restricted on the NBA stage, however the 25-year-old performed effectively throughout his rookie season with the G League’s Stockton Kings, averaging 21.4 factors, 9.8 rebounds, 1.1 blocks, and 32.1 minutes on 58/29.4/73.5 capturing.
Pistons Selected Jones Over Malik Beasley
Jones will fill the fifteenth and closing customary roster spot for the Pistons.
Detroit was initially holding open that closing spot for Malik Beasley, who stays a free agent as he continues to await the decision of the NBA’s investigation over playing allegations.
Earlier than information of the federal investigation into Beasley, he was in talks with the Pistons on a three-year, $42 million contract. Detroit holds Beasley’s Non-Fowl rights, which means they might have supplied him a multi-year cope with an annual wage value as much as $7.2 million.
In September, Omari Sankofa II of the Detroit Free Press reported {that a} potential reunion had been on the desk. Beasley was additionally desirous about re-signing along with his former workforce.
“It’s undoubtedly a spot I need to be,” Beasley stated following Detroit’s playoff elimination final season towards New York. “To be right here, my mother’s hometown, I grew up right here rather a lot within the summertime. To have the ability to carry out in entrance of this metropolis is large and I’m glad I obtained an opportunity to do this.”
The Pistons, nonetheless, weren’t keen to attend on the league to finish its investigation.
