Jazz Sign Babacar Sane To Exhibit 10 Contract

The Jazz have added undrafted rookie forward Babacar Sane to their offseason roster, according to RealGM’s transaction log. Tony Jones of The Athletic reported (via Twitter) in June that Sane would be signing an Exhibit 10 contract with Utah.

A player on an Exhibit 10 contract can earn a bonus worth up to $77.5K if he’s waived by his NBA team and then spends at least 60 days with his club’s G League affiliate. Exhibit 10 deals can also be converted to two-way contracts before the start of the regular season, but I expect the plan for Sane is to have him become an affiliate player for the Salt Lake City Stars.

Sane, who will turn 21 next month, is a native of Senegal who attended the NBA Academy Africa and then played in the Basketball Africa League before coming stateside in 2022. He spent the past two seasons with the G League Ignite before the team was shut down at the end of the ’23/24 campaign.

In 31 Showcase Cup and regular season games last season for the Ignite, Sane averaged 10.6 points and 5.7 rebounds in 22.7 minutes per contest, posting a shooting line of .445/.263/.699. The 6’6″ forward, who participated in the G League’s Next Up Game at All-Star weekend in each of the past two years, declared for the draft as an early entrant this spring.

It has been a busy week of roster moves for the Jazz. They renegotiated and extended Lauri Markkanen‘s contract last Wednesday, then officially signed Drew Eubanks, Svi Mykhailiuk, Kyle Filipowski, and Johnny Juzang in recent days, while also swapping out one two-way player (Taevion Kinsey) for a new one (Oscar Tshiebwe).

Utah currently has 18 players under contract, including 14 on standard deals, three on two-ways, and now Sane on an Exhibit 10 pact. The club figures to fill out its 21-man offseason roster at some point between now and the start of training camp this fall.