There are five primary storylines for the Clippers as they begin summer league play on Saturday.
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"Jordan Miller two-way contract watch
Jordan Miller was the 48th pick of this year’s draft, four years after
Terance Mann was the 48th pick of his draft. The 6-foot-5 southpaw out of Miami certainly has personality, explaining how his left arm is left without tattoos by recalling Nick Young’s '
strictly for buckets.'
But Miller, who is expected to get one of LA’s three two-way contracts, isn’t a Swaggy P-type gunner. He’s a well-rounded player who Jones credits for 'not looking for the ball to be successful,' a unique trait for a rookie.
'Jordan is a great cutter and communicator,' Jones said of Miller. 'He knows how to make his teammates better, and that’s rare to find a young player who is skilled in that area without getting any direction to do it. He’s been doing a great job as a screener and a cutter as I said before. He runs the floor extremely well, and he’s a great teammate.'
Another example of Miller’s traits as a teammate is his willingness to defend bigger players, despite checking in at less than 200 pounds. Miller used his near-7-foot wingspan well at college, and now he is eager to show he will translate that ability to the pros.
'There’s going to be guys bigger, stronger, (more) athletic in the NBA,' Miller said. 'For me, night in and night out, 95 percent of the time, I was guarding someone heavier than me, taller than me. I feel like it kind of instilled a toughness in me, I would say is the best word to describe it. No matter who I’m guarding, I’m just going to go after it, make their night as hell as possible and just get after it.'”
A “two-way contract” is an option that allows developing NBA players to be rostered on both an NBA team and its G League affiliate.
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"There are also limitations to being a two-way player. Only players with three or fewer years of NBA service are eligible for two-way contracts, and players in two-way contract slots are only eligible to be active in a maximum of 50 games with their NBA team, according to the G League. These players spend the rest of the season with their team's G League. If their team does not have an affiliate, they will be sent to
play with another team's affiliate, according to SB Nation."