Overview
- The team announced Thursday it converted the 24-year-old center from a two-way deal to a multiyear standard contract.
- ESPN’s Shams Charania and agent Corey Marcum report the agreement is four years with the first two seasons fully guaranteed.
- ClutchPoints reports the deal totals $8.28 million over four years.
- Sacramento used the opening after trading Dennis Schröder and Keon Ellis to Cleveland for De’Andre Hunter and sending Dario Šarić plus two second-round picks to Chicago.
- Across 25 games Cardwell averages 4.7 points, 7.1 rebounds and 1.7 blocks on 59.8% shooting, ranks third among rookies in blocks and sixth in offensive rebounds, and has featured in 16 straight games.