Jabari Walker expected to receive a full contract offer this summer, not a two-way deal. But the free-agency market and the feedback, the 22-year-old forward added, “doesn’t lie.” So Walker acknowledges he “100 percent” has motivation as he joins the Sixers on a contract that requires him to split time between the NBA team and the G League’s Delaware Blue Coats.

Many were stunned to see Jabari Walker sign a two-way deal with the Sixers after he spent three seasons on a standard contract with the Portland Trail Blazers.