Mouhamed Gueye isn’t the only Coug getting his shot at the NBA. Justin Powell, who played one season at WSU after transferring from Tennessee, signed an Exhibit 10 deal with the Miami Heat, this year’s NBA Finals runner-up. Powell will join the Heat for its summer league season, which begins July 3 agains the Lakers in Sacramento.
What’s an Exhibit 10 deal, you might ask? Great question! As The Spokesman-Review’s Colton Clark reports:
He landed a deal with the Heat less than an hour after the draft’s conclusion and signed an Exhibit 10 contract – a one-year, minimum-salary deal that gives NBA teams the option to convert the contract to a two-way contract if that change is made before the season begins.