2022 NBA Draft: Nebraska guard Trey McGowens signs summer deal with LA Clippers

One other Nebraska Cornhusker is getting a shot on the skilled stage.

Final night time within the 2022 NBA Draft, Nebraska guard Trey McGowens didn’t hear his title referred to as. However McGowens has since signed a free agent deal right now to play with the LA Clippers within the Las Vegas summer season league.

Trey is the second Husker to be drafted or signal any type of cope with an NBA workforce on Thursday night time, as his youthful brother Bryce McGowens was drafted within the second spherical by the Minnesota Timberwolves on behalf of the Charlotte Hornets with the No. 40 decide total. Ought to Trey earn his means onto the roster for the Clippers for subsequent season, the 2 brothers be part of Dalano Banton as fellow head coach Fred Hoiberg period NBA gamers, although Isaiah Roby was additionally drafted within the 2019 NBA Draft after Hoiberg was employed. Previous to Roby, simply 4 different Huskers have been drafted over the past 32 years.

McGowens began two seasons in Lincoln for Nebraska after transferring from Pittsburgh the place he was additionally a two-year starter for the Panthers. A 6-foot-4 guard from Pendleton, South Carolina, McGowens averaged 9.2 factors, 4.0 rebounds, 2.0 assists, and 1.5 steals per recreation in Lincoln. He was a robust defender sometimes tasked with the opponent’s finest outdoors perimeter risk.

McGowens ultimate season at Nebraska was derailed by a damaged foot in simply the third recreation of the younger season. He managed to get well in time to play in 14 video games down the stretch and was averaging 7.8 factors on 55 p.c taking pictures, 3.5 rebounds, and a pair of.6 steals per recreation over the ultimate six video games. He led Nebraska in steals each seasons on the court docket at UNL.

McGowens finishes his collegiate profession with 1,167 factors, 387 rebounds, 262 assists, and 192 steals.

Trey labored out with the Los Angeles Lakers, Boston Celtics, Milwaukee Bucks, and Sacramento Kings through the pre-draft course of. McGowens ended up signing a summer season league cope with the Clippers who’re coached by former Husker nice Tyronn Lue, the final Husker to be drafted within the first spherical.

The Clippers completed 42-40 final season and misplaced within the play-in spherical. The LA Clippers have signed Georgia Tech guard Michael Devoe to an Exhibit-10 contract after the draft as far as properly. Followers ought to anticipate to see Devoe, second-year guard Brandon Boston (51 video games performed as a rookie) and second-year guard Jason Preston (2nd spherical decide in 2021) be part of the back-court in Vegas together with Trey.

Trey McGowens’s skilled profession begins now and Husker nation needs him the most effective of luck in his profession.