After requesting waivers on Terence Davis two weeks ago, the Sacramento Kings have re-signed him to a non-guaranteed contract, according to Spotrac’s Keith Smith.
Kings Re-Sign Terence Davis, With A Catch
As Davis’s new contract with the Kings is a training camp deal, it’s expected to contain Exhibit 10 language.
Exhibit 10 contracts are one-year, non-guaranteed minimum contracts that allow players to earn extra salary for spending 60 days with the franchise’s G League affiliate once released from the training camp roster. This is a path that fringe NBA players typically take in order to keep themselves in league’s ecosystem, hoping that they can earn a two-way contract or standard contract down the line.
The Sacramento Kings have re-signed Terence Davis to a non-guaranteed training camp contract, a league source told @spotrac.
Davis likely signed an Exhibit 10 deal, which should see him eventually join the Stockton Kings of the G League.
— Keith Smith (@KeithSmithNBA) September 23, 2025
This isn’t news to Davis, who signed an Exhibit 10 contract with the Milwaukee Bucks last October. However, he probably didn’t expect to be putting his name on these types of deals when he broke into the league.
What’s His Story?
After Davis went undrafted in 2019, the Ole Miss product joined the Denver Nuggets Summer League squad. Interestingly, the Nuggets didn’t add him to their standard roster, but the Toronto Raptors. Signing a partially guaranteed two-year contract, Davis became a respected contributor by the end of the season. In fact, Davis came in sixth in Rookie of the Year voting (and was named to the 2019-20 All-Rookie team) after averaging 7.5 points per game on 38.8% shooting from 3.
Then his off-court issues cropped up.
That following October, Davis was arrested due to domestic violence allegations. Though many of those charges were dismissed prior to Toronto deciding to trade him to Sacramento in March, he was still facing child endangerment and criminal mischief charges. This, coupled with him carelessly spreading misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic caused the fan base to turn against him. It wouldn’t be surprising if there was at least one Raptors executive that had soured on him as well.
At the same time, the Raptors weren’t doing too well on the court. This magnified questions about Davis’s shot-creation limitations and defensive IQ. Unfortunately for him, he didn’t do much to change people’s impressions of him even after he was traded. In the 2021 offseason, he caught the coronavirus, his dismissive attitude towards the severity of it likely playing a part. He then proceeded to shoot 32.9% from 3 in the 2021-22 season.
Turning It Around
By 2022-23, Davis needed to turn his career back around and he did just that by rediscovering his shooting stroke. However, his decisions had culminated in his remaining unsigned throughout the 2023 offseason. Resigned to joining the G League, he signed a contract with the Portland Trail Blazers affiliate (Rip City Remix) that December. The next month, he tore his Achilles; a season-ending injury.
Fast-forward to the last time he signed an Exhibit 10 contract. Armed with his backstory, his 2024-25 performance with the Wisconsin Herd looks a bit different. Averaging 14.3 points per game in the G League isn’t going to blow people away. However, he did it fresh off of a significant injury and with the world against him. He also managed to shoot 40.2% from 3.
With his mental toughness and sizzling stroke, the Kings felt comfortable bringing him back into the fold in April.
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