As part of a busy morning of transactions, the Nix filled their third and final two-way meeting by signing a free agent guard Jayden Akins to a two-way contract, the team announced in a press release (Link to Twitter).
Akins will be stationed nearby Kevin McCallar Jr and a 2026 second-round pick Tyler Nickell as New York’s two-way players. All three of those two-way spots were open for most of the offseason until the team signed McCallor and Nickell on weekends.
Akins, 23, went undrafted out of Michigan State in 2025 after making the All-Big Ten Third Team and All-Defensive Team as a senior. The former Spartans star spent his first professional season with the Motor City Cruise of the G League, playing in 47 games for the Detroit affiliate, averaging 15.1 points, 5.7 assists and 3.1 rebounds in 30.8 minutes per game. He hit .420/.351/.841.
After playing for the Knicks Summer League team in July, Akins was signed and refused on two separate cases New York before training camp, making it the third contract he has signed with the team this month. The previous two contracts were Exhibition 10 transactions.
The Knicks, who entered the day with a full 21-man training camp roster, refused John Kanchar and Happy Dantesigned and refused Toby Okaniand have since filled two spots on their roster by adding Tony Bradley on a non-guaranteed Annex 9 contract and now Akins on a two-way deal. They have a full squad of 21 again.
