The Heat will sign undrafted Kansas guard Marcus Garrett to an Exhibit 10 contract, agent Adie Von Gontard tells Jonathan Givony of ESPN (Twitter link).
Garrett played 129 games with the Jayhawks over four seasons, establishing career highs as a senior in 2020/21 in PPG (11.0), FG% (.459) and 3PT% (.348), among other categories.
As Givony notes, Garrett established a reputation as one of the best defenders in college basketball, winning the Naismith Defensive Player of the Year award in 2020 and making the Big 12 All-Defensive team three teams from 2019-21.
Garrett is the fifth undrafted free agent reported to be signing with the Heat, who didn’t have a pick in Thursday’s draft. Houston’s DeJon Jarreau also tweeted that’s joining the Heat, though there has been no confirmation yet that he’s getting a camp invite, as opposed to just playing on Miami’s Summer League team.
Mentioned it on the other Heat undrafted guys article. The little I’ve seen, he has Heat DNA. Kind of reminiscent of Josh Richardson…also liked what I saw from Jarreau. Looking like this might be it for Kendrick Nunn, Gabe Vincent, and potentially even Tyler Herro or Goran Dragic…
They also signed DJ Stewart
Look like they got some tall defensive guards