Undrafted Ohio State guard Shannon Scott has agreed to a partially guaranteed deal with the Toronto Raptors, league source tells RealGM.
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He’s undrafted out of OSU. He’s a smallish, fast guard who didn’t look very good with the Spurs in Summer League, and averaged single-digit points in college but was a decent playmaker. He doesn’t have much NBA potential – DraftExpress had him 86th before the draft – but he’s a pretty good defender.
Offensively he’s a “tools but no production” guy. Not sure where he fits beyond just an extra body at PG in camp.
Alex Toupane also signed a similar type of contract, described by Blake as:
A partially-guaranteed contract doesn’t really mean much here. Teams give out plenty of partial guarantees in the offseason, essentially securing the player for the summer and into the fall with a token salary. Will Cherry received a $25,000-guarantee last summer, for example, giving him an incentive to come to camp with the Raptors over another team but costing the Raptors little in the way of actual salary. The amount that gets guaranteed counts toward the salary cap and luxury tax calculations, but Roberts’ non-guaranteed amount is almost surely the $525,093 minimum and the guaranteed amount small – they matter, but with the team so far from the tax and unlikely to use their remaining cap space – they’re words, not mine – this doesn’t move the needle much.
Basically, this type of deal often stands as a sort of “offseason contract.”
