Undrafted Winthrop guard Chandler Vaudrin, who played for the Cavaliers‘ Summer League team, has been diagnosed with a torn ACL and will soon undergo surgery to repair the injury, according to Chris Fedor of Cleveland.com (Twitter links). The injury occurred in his third Summer League game.
Vaudrin had reportedly agreed to sign an Exhibit 10 contract with the Cavs, meaning he likely would’ve attended training camp with the team and competed to earn a two-way contract. Instead, it appears his rookie season will be postponed by a year as he recovers from a major knee injury.
Vaudrin – who grew up in Uniontown, Ohio – filled up the stat sheet with 12.0 PPG, 7.3 RPG, and 6.9 APG in 25 games (31.6 MPG) as a senior at Winthrop in 2020/21. He spent his last two college seasons at Winthrop after playing for the Division II Walsh Cavaliers from 2016-18.
We’ll see if Cleveland still ends up signing Vaudrin to an Exhibit 10 deal — if the Cavs like him enough, they could sign him, waive him, then have him report to the Cleveland Charge as an affiliate player. That would allow Vaudrin to rehab his injury with the Cavs’ G League team while receiving a $50K bonus as a result of the Exhibit 10 agreement.
However, it’s also entirely possible that the deal simply doesn’t get finalized due to the injury. In that scenario, the Cavs could circle back to Vaudrin a year from now.
the moral thing to do is sign him to that 10 day contract so he can get the medical help he needs and a little bit of money to hep him through but NBA is a business which in the real world the company doesn’t care about you. I hope the cavs do the moral thing and help him out.
Same. And while it looked like he might struggle at the NBA level athletically, he definitely showed he had the talent to be a solid G League player or overseas guy. Hopefully the Cleveland Charge are willing to help him out this year with rehab.
The problem is that according to the CBA teams can’t sign 10 day deals until after the trade deadline.
But it won’t matter. Since the injury occurred in the Summer League game, the Cavs will be responsible for the medical bills. And he should be eligible for Worker’s Comp as well.
That is good his bills will be paid. You got to feel sorry for him since being a fringe player a bad injury most likely means never to play in the NBA.
Winthrop must play to slow pace. Per 100 possessions, Vaudrin avg 21-13-12 with 6 turnovers (as opposed to 12-7-7.) Is 6’7″, Lake HS
100 pos. stats are usually a bit higher, but not that much so.
I doubt the NBA players association would allow a summer league that does not cover medical expenses for participating players in the event of an injury. And if not the players association, players’ representation would definitely object to their clients’ participating.
He’s going to get taken care of but it is definitely an early blow to his stock.