The San Antonio Spurs have crammed their closing roster spot earlier than coaching camp begins subsequent week. In response to the workforce’s roster website, the Spurs have signed undrafted rookie Jameer Nelson Jr. to a coaching camp contract.
Nelson Jr. performed with the Spurs in the summertime league, the place he averaged 4.1 factors, 1.3 assists and 0.6 turnovers and shot 27% from deep in 11.2 minutes per recreation. He primarily got here off the bench and was the workforce’s third level guard behind Stephon Citadel and Jamaree Boyea. The 6-foot-1 guard performed 5 years of school basketball, ending out his profession with TCU the place he averaged 11.2 factors, 3.3 assists and a pair of.1 steals. He’s the son of former NBA guard Jameer Nelson.
Nelson Jr. is the twenty first participant signed to the Spurs coaching camp roster. The workforce can have simply 21 gamers on the coaching camp roster, which means they can’t invite anymore gamers. San Antonio has 4 coaching camp invitees with no spot on the NBA roster: Riley Minix, Brandon Boston Jr., Malachi Flynn and Nelson Jr. With a Two-Means roster spot open, it’s doubtless these gamers will compete for the ultimate roster spot.
The coaching camp contract doubtless signifies that even when Nelson Jr. doesn’t make the ultimate roster, he’ll spend a while with the Austin Spurs within the G League this season. San Antonio has used this technique prior to now to maintain undrafted rookies of their system with out having them on the NBA squad.
San Antonio will host a media day on October 1st, then start coaching camp the next day. They’ll play their first preseason recreation on October seventh towards the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder.
