Rockets sign summer-league standout Jermaine Samuels Jr. to two-way deal

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The Rockets are signing Jermaine Samuels Jr. to one of their three two-way contracts for the 2023-24 season, as first reported by Shams Charania and Kelly Iko of The Athletic. Samuels joins fellow summer-league standouts Darius Days and Trevor Hudgins as the current recipients of Houston’s allotment of three two-way deals.

A two-way contract effectively allows a player to shuttle back and forth, as needed, between the parent NBA club and that team’s G League affiliate (for Houston, the Rio Grande Valley Vipers).

A 6-foot-7 forward from Villanova, Samuels went undrafted in 2022 before playing in the G League last season. The 24-year-old then caught on with the Rockets before the NBA’s 2023 summer league, where he averaged 11.3 points (44.2% FG, and 35.3% on 3-pointers), 5.0 rebounds, and 3.5 assists in 27.3 minutes per game.

With Samuels playing as a forward and, at times, as an undersized center, Houston went 5-1 in Las Vegas en route to a runner-up finish.

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Publish date : 2023-08-02 14:54:58

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