{"id":20058,"date":"2025-06-27T21:13:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T21:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/20058\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T21:13:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T21:13:12","slug":"tennessees-jordan-gainey-to-play-in-nba-summer-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/20058\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee’s Jordan Gainey to play in NBA Summer League"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tennessee guard Jordan Gainey<\/a><\/strong> will play in the NBA Summer League with the Phoenix Suns, according to the Knoxville News Sentinel<\/a>. Gainey is coming off a breakout senior season, averaging 11.6 points, 3.3 rebounds and 1.9 assists<\/a> while shooting 40.5% from the floor.<\/p>\n

Gainey, the son of Tennessee associate head coach Justin Gainey, spent two seasons with the Vols after transferring from USC Upstate.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Zakai Zeigler<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0will also play in the NBA Summer League with the Detroit Pistons after going undrafted. He averaged\u00a011.3 points, 5.4 assists, 2.6 rebounds and 1.8 steals<\/a>\u00a0in 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.<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0<\/p>\n

During the season he became Tennessee\u2019s all-time assists leader (747), single-season assists leader (257), the SEC\u2019s single-season assists record holder and the first player in SEC history with 1,550 points, 700 assists, 350 rebounds and 250 steals.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Two Vols drafted, Zakai Zeigler gets NBA Summer League deal<\/p>\n

Two Tennessee players heard their names called in the second round Thursday night. The Pistons took\u00a0Chaz Lanier<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0at No. 37 overall and\u00a0Jahmai Mashack<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0was the final pick in the draft, going at No. 59 overall to the Memphis Grizzlies, via a trade with the Houston Rockets.<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0He made 123 3-pointers in 38 games, breaking the previous record of 118 held by\u00a0Chris<\/strong>\u00a0Lofton<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Mashack,\u00a0the 6-foot-4, 202-pound Fontana, Calif., native<\/a>, 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.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Igor Milicic Jr. gets Exhibit 10 contract with Philadelphia 76ers<\/p>\n

Igor Milicic Jr.<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0is getting a shot at the NBA with an Exhibit 10 contract with the Philadelphia 76ers,\u00a0according to Jon Chepkevich<\/a>. The 6-foot-10 forward averaged 9.4 points, 6.7 rebounds and 1.9 assists in 37 games at\u00a0Tennessee<\/a>\u00a0last season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tennessee guard Jordan Gainey will play in the NBA Summer League with the Phoenix Suns, according to the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[1339,1317,1337,1338,1718,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-20058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-basketball","11":"tag-ncaabasketball","12":"tag-regwall","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114757396302174977","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}