Meet Hunter Sallis, the Sixers’ new priority two-way signing

Every year, the second round of the NBA draft serves as the lead-in to a flurry of signings immediately after Deputy Commissioner Mark Tatum signs off for the night. Minutes after this year's draft came to a conclusion, the first name to rise out of the mist for Philadelphia was Hunter Sallis, a Wake Forest standout who agreed to a two-way deal with the Sixers.
While the Sixers have committed many basketball crimes over the last decade or so — mostly in the second round of the playoffs — they have begun building a reputation as a team that can provide meaningful opportunity for players like Sallis. In 2023, an undrafted Ricky Council IV parlayed production on his two-way deal into a standard...