The New York Knicks announced on Sunday that they have signed a free agent deal with guard Jalen Harris.
After spending his 2020-21 rookie year at the Toronto Raptors, Harris was expelled and disqualified from the NBA in July 2021 due to an unspecified violation of the league’s drug program. Jim Krajewski of the Reno Gazette Journal noted at the time that the NBA’s drug policy bans players who test positive for “drug abuse.”
Players usually have to wait two years to apply for reinstatement in the NBA after a ban, but first-year players, like Harris was at the time, only have to wait a year.