The Oklahoma City Thunder announced Wednesday that they’ve signed rookie guard Luguentz Dort to a multi-year contract.
The 6-foot-3, 215-pound guard went undrafted in 2019 but latched on with the Thunder's Summer League squad. Dort earned a two-way contract and spent the start of the season in the G League. He got his first real taste of action in December before later becoming a starter.
Dort is averaging 6.2 points, 1.9 rebounds, and 0.7 assists in 22.0 minutes per game as a rookie. With 21 starts to his name, the team has racked up an impressive record of 16-5 in those games.
Dort’s two-way contract would have made it through the last 16 games of the regular season based on the initial 2019-20 schedule, but he would not have been eligible for the playoffs without a full-fledged contract. However, with the newly negotiated roster rules for the NBA's resumption in Orlando, two-way players became eligible to play.
Be that as it may, the Thunder signed Dort to a full-time contract anyway, with the hopes that the young talent has a bright future ahead of him. This will allow him the chance to not only prove himself in the last eight seeding games and the playoffs, but in the future as well. If he hadn't agreed to this contract, Dort would have been allowed to play the remaining games of the season before testing free agency.
The Thunder are a surprising 40-24 on the season, which has them sitting in the No. 5 spot in the Western Conference.
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