Sep. 1—Former Logansport and St. Bonaventure star Jalen Adaway has signed an Exhibit 10 deal with the San Antonio Spurs, ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski has reported.
An Exhibit 10 contract is a single-season, minimum-salary NBA deal that allows the franchise to convert the contract to a two-way deal as long as that change is made prior to the beginning of the regular season. Each NBA team is limited to six active contracts that contain Exhibit 10 at any given time.
Adaway will likely start the season with the Spurs' G League affiliate, the Austin Spurs. Adaway said he doesn't yet have a spot on the Spurs' NBA training camp roster.
"In some situations [the Exhibit 10 contract] will come with a training camp invite. But because this happened late, the Spurs already had their training camp roster set with all the new guys that they drafted this year and stuff like that. I don't have a training camp spot as of right now," Adaway said. "Things could change but as of right now I don't have it. I'll probably get out there in a couple weeks just to get acclimated and play with a lot of the actual guys on the roster. Hopefully that goes well and maybe they can make a change or something like that and try to get me into training camp."
Adaway has a goal of eventually reaching the NBA. He's planning on starting next season in Austin.
"Being on an Exhibit 10, that's basically saying you are going to be one of the main guys, go-to guys on the G League team. But the team does have the rights to convert your contract to a two-way contract before the actual season starts," he said. "In my situation if I were to go to training camp being on the Exhibit 10, they could convert my contract being on a two-way contract before the season starts if that were the case.
"I'd say right now it's looking like starting in Austin. I definitely see myself starting there. I'm sure I'm going to be surrounded by a lot of good teammates there playing for an organization like San Antonio. I know it trickles down from top to bottom. So I'm definitely going to start the season in Austin I'm assuming and then kind of go from there."
Adaway said he's currently living in Indianapolis and plans to head out to Texas in a couple weeks.
"I'll probably be out there for about a week, week and a half, two weeks, something like that, kind of just practice, scrimmage, play pickup. By that time all the guys should be back, all the guys on the official roster and the other Exhibit 10s, so I'm definitely looking forward to that," he said.