Jaden Bradley Signs Multi-Year Contract with Toronto Raptors

Jaden Bradley is getting his shot.

The Toronto Raptors have signed the 6-foot-3 guard to a multi-year contract, locking in the No. 50 pick from the 2026 NBA Draft and giving their backcourt rotation another young playmaker to mold. As usual, the team kept the financial terms quiet, but the commitment speaks loudly enough.

Bradley arrives in Toronto with a résumé that reads like a steady climb. At Arizona last season, his senior year, he was the engine of a Wildcats team that pushed all the way to the Final Four. He averaged 13.3 points, 4.4 assists, 3.4 rebounds and 1.4 steals across 39 games, earning Big 12 Player of the Year, a spot on the Big 12 First Team and a place on the All-Defensive Team. Thirty-plus minutes a night, big-stage pressure, and he delivered.

Those numbers didn’t come out of nowhere. The Rochester, N.Y., native spent three seasons at Arizona from 2023 to 2026 after opening his college career at Alabama in 2022-23, where he made the SEC All-Freshman Team. Different conference, same pattern: he adjusted quickly, then imposed himself.

His first taste of the Raptors’ system came in Summer League, where his box score didn’t scream for attention but hinted at a guard who can touch several parts of the game. In five games, Bradley averaged 6.4 points, 3.6 rebounds and 3.2 assists in 20.5 minutes, shooting 32.4 per cent from the field. The efficiency will need work. The activity is already there.

Toronto’s move to sign Bradley also triggered another piece of business. By converting him to a standard contract, the Raptors opened up a two-way slot and moved quickly to fill it with guard Malachi Smith.

Smith, 26, split last season between the Brooklyn Nets and their G League affiliate, the Long Island Nets. In 15 NBA games with Brooklyn, he put up 8.3 points, 3.4 rebounds and 3.3 assists, showing he could hold his own in rotation minutes. In the G League, with more responsibility and the ball in his hands, his production climbed: 14.4 points, 5.7 assists and 4.6 rebounds across 39 appearances.

So the Raptors leave this bit of roster housekeeping with two guards in new roles: Bradley stepping into the league on a multi-year deal, Smith sliding into a two-way spot with a clear path between the G League and the NBA floor.

For a franchise leaning into development, those are not just names on a depth chart. They’re bets on who might grow into something more when the games start to matter.