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A two-way player in basketball excels at both the offensive side of the game and the defensive side of the game. [1] [2]Some of the best two-way players in the National Basketball Association (NBA) have been awarded the NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award.
Beginning in the 2017–18 season, the National Basketball Association added two-way contracts between NBA teams and their minor league NBA G League affiliates. Through the 2022–23 season, each team could offer two contracts per season to players with fewer than four years of NBA experience; [2] from 2023 to 2024, three such contracts per team are allowed. [3]
Bednarik is ranked one of the hardest hitting tacklers in NFL history, [1] and was one of the league's last two-way players. On November 20, 1960, Bednarik knocked New York Giants star halfback Frank Gifford unconscious with a tackle that was called "professional football's most notorious concussion".
Considered early on as an elite two-way player, Ohtani was the first pick of the Fighters in the 2012 NPB draft. He played for the Fighters from 2013 through 2017 as a pitcher and an outfielder, and won the 2016 Japan Series with them.
HoopsHype ranks the best two-way contract NBA players ever, judging them by how successful they've been since first being signed.
Hoping to become a two-way player in Major League Baseball just like Shohei Ohtani, 18-year-old Shotaro Morii made the rare decision to bypass Japanese professional baseball entirely and agreed ...
Renowned as a two-way player who could both hit and pitch successfully, one statistical compilation shows Rogan winning more games than any other pitcher in Negro leagues history and ranking fourth highest in career batting average. [2] He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1998.
Itsuki Takemoto, a 6-foot-3, two-way player from Japan, ... Feb. 5—In a preview, the Hawaii baseball team turned to its past, defeating an alumni team 8-0 at Les Murakami Stadium on Sunday. "It ...