The Celtics have signed former Duke big man Amile Jefferson to an Exhibit 10 contract, according to Jay King of The Athletic (Twitter link).
Jefferson, 27, spent five seasons with the Blue Devils, including being team captain for three of them. The Philadelphia native helped lead Duke to the 2015 National Championship.
A right foot fracture in 2015/16 limited Jefferson to just nine games and he was granted medical redshirt approval by the ACC to return for a fifth season. Jefferson’s fifth season at Duke included being teammates with now Celtics All-Star Jayson Tatum.
Jefferson has spent parts of the last two seasons suiting up for the Magic, appearing in 30 games and averaging 1.4 PPG and 1.5 RPG for Orlando. He also had a stint in the G League with the Timberwolves’ G League affiliate Iowa Wolves.
Jefferson’s Exhibit 10 contract is a non-guaranteed one-year, minimum salary pact that allows a player to make a bonus of up to $50K if he is waived and remains on the franchise’s G League squad for at least 60 days.
The leadership role Amile played at Duke was without a question bigger than any stats can show
Hope he enjoys Maine
It’s nice in the winter, especially with all the bars closed because of covid.
LMAO!!!
Maine in some ways is like the Florida of the north. Beaches, seafood, Red Sox fanatics, people from Ontario, racism. They’re basically the same place.
I live in Portland. You’re not far off.
Oh come on Portland doesn’t count. Windham on the other hand…
Portland has some of the finest dive bars known to man. Windham has an Applebees.
I have been kicked out of Bubbas but only once. I do love Portland.
Portland is awesome. Bubba’s is awesome sometimes.
Isn’t that in Oregon? So there’s one in Maine too?
No, just Oregon. We were just goofing around.
It’s good you identified Florida and Maine as racist states since there are so few of them in the US