INDIANAPOLIS — Forward Johnny Furphy, second-round pick Taelon Peter and two-way contract players Quenton Jackson, Enrique Freeman and RayJ Dennis will be part of the Pacers NBA Summer League roster, the Pacers released Friday. The summer Pacers began practice on Friday and play their first game in Las Vegas on Thursday, July 10 at 5 p.m. against the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Second-round pick Kameron Jones from Marquette was not on the initial roster released Friday, but a league source confirmed that the reason for that is because the pick the Pacers used to draft him was acquired in a trade with the Spurs and those trades don’t become official until Sunday. He is expected to take part in Summer League play.
Furphy, taken with the No. 35 overall pick, appeared in 50 games this season and averaged 2.1 points and 7.6 minutes per game. He spent time in the rotation in November and early December when the Pacers were depleted with injuries but got most of the rest of his minutes after that in garbage time situations. He played 10 regular season G League games with the Mad Ants and averaged 14.3 points and 9.7 rebounds per game.
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Jackson was the most extensively used of the two-way contract players. He averaged 5.8 points per game for the Pacers and started seven games when they were short-handed. He averaged 22.5 points, 5.7 assists and 5.5 rebounds per game in 16 games with the Mad Ants.
Also on the roster are rookies Samson Johnson of Connecticut, Steven Ashworth of Creighton and R.J. Felton of East Carolina, all of whom were signed to undrafted free agent contracts after last week’s draft, which are likely to become Exhibit 10 contracts. They will eventually be waived but would be do a bonus of close to $75,000 for playing with the Pacers’ G League team, which relocated and this season will be called the Noblesville Boom.
Guard Keisei Tominaga and forward Josiah Jordan-James — who played college ball at Nebraska and Tennessee, respectively — are both on the roster after playing with the Mad Ants last season.
The Pacers added four players to the roster who played professionally elsewhere last season. Buddy Boeheim, son of legendary Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim, played last season with the Oklahoma City Blue. The 6-6 wing was an All-ACC pick at Syracuse under his father and has been in the G League for the last three seasons. He averaged 12.4 points per game with the Blue last year.
Former Wyoming star Hunter Maldonado is on the roster after spending last season playing professionally in Germany. Forward Phillip Wheeler will play for the Summer Pacers after playing five games with the 76ers last year and also playing for both the Celtics and Mavericks’ G League squads. Center Robert Baker, who played college ball at Harvard, played last year with the Osceola Magic.
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