Tennessee's Jordan Gainey to play in NBA Summer League
Tennessee guard Jordan Gainey will play in the NBA Summer League with the Phoenix Suns, according to the Knoxville News Sentinel. Gainey is coming off a breakout senior season, averaging 11.6 points, 3.3 rebounds and 1.9 assists while shooting 40.5% from the floor.
Gainey, the son of Tennessee associate head coach Justin Gainey, spent two seasons with the Vols after transferring from USC Upstate.
He averaged 6.8 points in 18.4 minutes per game in 2023-24, before jumping up to 11.6 points per game in 27.8 minutes last season, coming off the bench in all but one of his 74 games at Tennessee.
Zakai Zeigler will also play in the NBA Summer League with the Detroit Pistons after going undrafted. He averaged 11.3 points, 5.4 assists, 2.6 rebounds and 1.8 steals in 29.3 minutes per game over 118 career games at Tennessee, shooting 39.0% from the field and 33.1% from the 3-point line.
Zeigler had a career year last season, averaging 13.6 points, 7.4 assists, 2.9 rebounds and 1.9 steals in 34.2 minutes per game while leading Tennessee to a second straight trip to the Elite Eight.
During the season he became Tennessee’s all-time assists leader (747), single-season assists leader (257), the SEC’s single-season assists record holder and the first player in SEC history with 1,550 points, 700 assists, 350 rebounds and 250 steals.
Two Vols drafted, Zakai Zeigler gets NBA Summer League deal
Two Tennessee players heard their names called in the second round Thursday night. The Pistons took Chaz Lanier at No. 37 overall and Jahmai Mashack was the final pick in the draft, going at No. 59 overall to the Memphis Grizzlies, via a trade with the Houston Rockets.
Lanier in his one season at Tennessee averaged 18.0 points per game last season while shooting 43.1% from the field and 39.5% from the 3-point line. He made 123 3-pointers in 38 games, breaking the previous record of 118 held by Chris Lofton.
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The Nashville native transferred to Tennessee from North Florida, picking the home-state Vols over Kentucky and BYU. He had a breakout senior year at North Florida in 2023-24, averaging 19.7 points per game and making 108 threes in 32 games, shooting a career-high 44.0% from the 3-point line.
Mashack, the 6-foot-4, 202-pound Fontana, Calif., native, was considered one of the best perimeter defenders in college basketball last season while averaging 6.0 points, 4.2 rebounds and 1.5 assists in 38 games as a senior with the Vols.
Igor Milicic Jr. gets Exhibit 10 contract with Philadelphia 76ers
Igor Milicic Jr. is getting a shot at the NBA with an Exhibit 10 contract with the Philadelphia 76ers, according to Jon Chepkevich. The 6-foot-10 forward averaged 9.4 points, 6.7 rebounds and 1.9 assists in 37 games at Tennessee last season.
Milicic, who transferred to Tennessee from Charlotte last spring, averaged 8.8 points, 5.6 rebounds and 1.2 assists over 119 games in college basketball, shooting 47.5% from the field and 34.5% from the 3-point line.
An Exhibit 10 contract is a one-year, minimum salary NBA contract with an Exhibit 10 attachment. The Exhibit 10 attachment allows NBA teams to convert the initial agreement to a two-way contract before the start of the regular season.
