Maccabi Rapyd Tel Aviv has signed Keaton Wallace to a two-year contract, including the 27-year-old American guard to Oded Kattash’s backcourt. Wallace joins after spending the 2025-26 season with the Atlanta Hawks, the place he averaged 3.5 factors, 1.1 rebounds and 1.8 assists in 53 video games.
Wallace shot 39.8% from the sector and 37.3% from three-point vary in 10.1 minutes per recreation for Atlanta. Throughout his two NBA seasons, he appeared in 84 regular-season video games, making eight begins, and averaged 4.2 factors, 1.3 rebounds and a pair of.1 assists whereas taking pictures 35.3% from three.
His restricted NBA function contrasts with the bigger duties he dealt with within the G League. Wallace averaged 16.1 factors, 6.3 assists and 5.1 rebounds per recreation for the School Park Skyhawks final season whereas taking pictures 38.5% from three-point vary.
Maccabi is including Wallace to a backcourt that underwent important modifications through the offseason. Tamir Blatt, who averaged 7.1 factors and a team-high 5.2 assists per recreation in 38 EuroLeague appearances final season, is among the many departures, whereas Lonnie Walker IV additionally left after main the workforce with 15.2 factors per recreation.
Maccabi completed the 2025-26 EuroLeague common season 18-20 and twelfth within the standings.
Wallace’s means to create for himself and teammates provides Maccabi one other ball-handler alongside its offseason additions. The membership has additionally added Bonzie Colson, Yam Madar, Daniel Theis and Armando Bacot because it reshapes the roster for the upcoming season.
Wallace reached the NBA after going undrafted in 2021 following his school profession at UTSA. He beforehand performed for the Los Angeles Clippers’ G League affiliate earlier than signing with Atlanta in September 2023.
His greatest NBA efficiency got here throughout his first season, when he scored 27 factors in opposition to Chicago and later recorded a triple-double in opposition to Orlando with 15 factors, 15 assists and 11 rebounds. He additionally had 14 factors and 7 rebounds in opposition to the Los Angeles Lakers through the 2025-26 season.
Wallace now strikes to the EuroLeague with a two-year contract and a bigger anticipated function. He will probably be tasked with including ball-handling, perimeter taking pictures and defensive depth to a Maccabi workforce that completed twelfth in Europe final season.
