Grizzlies management announced that forward/center Armando Bacot, guard Yuki Kawamura, guard Miye Oni and forward Maozinha Pereira will be joining the team.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Memphis Grizzlies The team announced Friday that it has signed four additional players: forward/center Armando Bacot, guard Yuki Kawamura, guard Miye Oni and forward Maozinha Pereira.

Terms of the deals were not disclosed, nor were team policies.

Bacot (6’2″, 500 lbs), who was not selected in the 2024 NBA draft, joins the Grizzlies from North Carolina. He has played in 169 games with 168 starts and averaged 13.9 points, 10.1 rebounds, 1.3 assists and 1.3 blocks in 28.2 minutes.

Bacot was the Tarheels’ all-time leader in games played, total rebounds and double-doubles. He was also a four-time All-ACC selection.

Kawamura (5-8, 159) joins the Bluff City Bears from Japan’s B. League, where he played the last five seasons and was named the 2022-23 season’s MVP with the Yokohama B-Corsairs. He was not selected in the 2023 NBA draft.

Kawamura started all 56 games for Yokohama last season and averaged 20.9 points, 3.0 rebounds and 8.0 assists in 30.6 minutes. He also represented Japan at the 2023 FIBA ​​World Cup and the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Oni (6-5, 206) was the 58th overall pick in the 2019 NBA draft. He averaged 1.8 points and 1.4 rebounds in 8.4 minutes over three seasons with the Utah Jazz. He also played with the Salt Lake City Stars and Osceola Magic of the NBA G League.

Oni was named the 2018-19 Ivy League Player of the Year while at Yale and represented Nigeria at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Pereira (6-8, 177) played seven games as a rookie on consecutive 10-day contracts with the Grizzlies last season, averaging 6.9 points and 5.3 rebounds in 17.4 minutes while shooting 51.4 percent from the field.

Pereira also played with the Capitanes de Mexico City in the NBA G League and played three seasons in the Brazilian NBB. He recently represented Brazil at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

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