The Orlando Magic have agreed to terms on Exhibit 10 contracts with former Wyoming sharpshooter Drake Jeffries, his company One Motive Sports introduced, and G-League guard Zavier Simpson.
Jeffries, a 6-foot-5 guard, averaged 9.1 factors (39.4% on 3-pointers) and 4.3 rebounds in his two seasons with the Cowboys, together with 10.3 factors (40.9% on 6.8 3s) and 5.4 rebounds in 2021-22.
He scored 6 factors in a single sport with the Denver Nuggets summer season league group after going undrafted.
Jeffries spent the primary three seasons of his school profession on the Division II (Minot State, N.D.) and JUCO (Indian Hills Community College, Iowa) ranges.
Simpson, who performed for the Magic at Las Vegas summer season league, appeared in 4 video games for the Oklahoma City Thunder final season the place he averaged 11 factors and seven.5 assists. A 6-foot level guard famous for his hook shot — sure, his hook shot — and protection however not his general capturing contact (36.5% general; 12.5% on 3s), Simpson went undrafted in 2020 after spending 4 seasons at Michigan.
He has had Exhibit 10 offers with the Thunder and L.A. Lakers and has spent two seasons with G League’s Oklahoma City Blue.
Exhibit 10 offers are 1-year, minimal wage contracts that permit a participant to be part of coaching camp and are sometimes non-guaranteed — permitting groups to waive the participant with out taking a cap hit.
Exhibit 10 contracts embrace bonuses starting from $5,000-$50,000. Players obtain the bonus in the event that they signal with the group’s G League affiliate after being waived by the NBA group, relying on how a lot time they spend on the G League roster.
Teams can convert a participant’s Exhibit 10 deal right into a two-way contract earlier than the beginning of the common season.
The Magic now have the utmost 20 gamers allowed underneath contract within the offseason after signing Jeffries and Simpson — 15 on assured commonplace contracts; one on a completely non-guaranteed deal (Devin Cannady); and Admiral Schofield and Kevon Harris on two-way contracts.
Teams should trim their rosters to fifteen gamers on commonplace contracts (plus a pair of two-way gamers) earlier than the 2022-23 common season begins in October.
This article first appeared on OrlandoSentinel.com. Email Khobi Price at [email protected] or observe him on Twitter at @khobi_price.
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